FF 5.X Alternative Raid Buff Alignment and Openers

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I appreciated reading this post.

Further food for thought on doton at that time. NIN mudras cooldown resets on first mudra use. So although using doton later gives an extra tick or two you are dependent on fight timer losing a raiton (800 potency). Those as much as 3 extra ticks of doton + not having to use an armor crush (also fight time dependent) grants at best (100*3 +20) potency. So its a hard call tho, but the point being if you are going to get that extra raiton it is still better to perform the early doton with the standard opener.

HOWEVER with your delayed NIN opener I think some raiton cast time was lost anyways (not 100% sure){mudra over-capping} because trick is delayed If this is the case it wouldn't alter yours as much since the raiton timer would be locked into the timing of the raid buffs regardless of when the first mudra was cast.

*side note* If you are still intentionally clipping with the pot this is a poor choice. That will always be a dps loss rather than a gain even it if aligns trick somehow exactly where you want it.