Quote Originally Posted by Absurdity View Post
You might as well have told him he can play machinist, but only badly by losing out on a bunch of dps.
That's really what I did say, but I think the developers probably intend it the way I said otherwise they would have been more considerate of ping.

If you use it when Gauss Round and Ricochet are freshly on cooldown with 0 charges, you get a 90s reduction, putting them perfectly at 3 charges. You lose about 8 seconds + however long it took you to press Hypercharge + how long it took to press the GCD after Hypercharge is finished. With each being 120 potency, it's about a third of the potency lost, 80.

It's more of a loss before level 74 when we only have 2 charges.