Quote Originally Posted by AnotherPerson View Post
This is what I say when I tell people Dissipation is bad but hey, apparently some people like not being able to use their skills on cooldown (due to how Dissipation can delay fairy skills or you use fairy skills but lose a Dissipation in prog) - which also directly translates to having an even longer cooldown than suggested.
Lets say you lose 1 Dissipation in the fight due to holding the CD and lets say you would use only Energy Drain for all three Aetherflow stacks. You just gained 30 potency and some free movement, this is because Broil is 290 potency and the combined Ruin 2 and Energy drain is 300 potency. However you cannot hold Raijus so if you do not use them and instead do Gust Slash 330p > Aeolian Edge 420p (which is not guaranteed, its just the highest potency combo of gcds) You just lost 100 potency while gaining free movement because both Raijus together are 850 potency. Now apply all the extra damage increases that a party has and the effective potency loss just increases more and more.

There is of course a lot more to it because AE gives more Ninki than Raiju and so may give you an extra bhava which is 300p, but throughout a fight if you lose 100p for every lot of raiju not used its going to add up. That's a 500p loss every 2 minutes if you didn't use them at all and the ninki loss over those 2 minutes is sometimes enough to get another bhava, which would put you back to a 200p loss.
Now consider that most savage boss fights are 8+ minutes long so its a potential loss between 800-2000p (likely to be an average of about 1400p) and for the longer 10+ minute fights it just gets worse.

Its not going to be an okay thing to not use Raiju when progging the savage raid tier. It would be like just choosing to not use Displacement on RDM through a whole fight and expecting it to make no difference. The whole reason RDM's Engagement was changed to the same level and potency as Displacement was because it was dangerous to use a backstep in a lot of fights and sometimes was just outright a death. The same is the case for all gap closers though all other gap closers are not mandatory use or lose skills, they are normally all ogcds and a lot of them have charges and/or no potency. Ninja has GCD, no charges and potency on them.