You should be potting pre-pull, which is nothing new. Bard has to do it due to how busy their opener is.

Your opener should be:



There is some wiggle room. I've seen a handful of Dragoons switch their potion with Dragon Sight; using the latter at 1 second pre-pull.

Delaying our GCD would require a fairly significantly damage increase to compensate for just how severe .5 seconds would be. That adds up to a GCD loss for every four. A one second loss on our pot or Dragon Sight is far, far less. Simply put, it isn't really needed though I may be among the few Dragoons who still sorta miss Heavy Thrust.