Quote Originally Posted by Zer0mr View Post
Ain't nobody got time for that.

Just keep her on Obey, cast your DOTs, and use Contagion. Does it really matter if it takes 5 seconds?

It does matter. In respect to what T0rin said, however, sometimes I believe it's better to bane before contagion. Putting your pet on steady means less potential windblade damage, and you can't really stop it mid-windblade to ready it for contagion (it will finish the last cast first), so either way you'd be stuck with some kind of delay most of the time.

To account for this I use the following rotation at the start of turn 5:


~ = Tap immediately after or simultaneously (pet commands being simultaneous)

Rouse ~ Obey > Spur > Enkindle > Swiftcast ~ Shadowflare > Bio II > Miasma > Bio *hesitate* ~ Bane > Fester ~ Thunder *switch to add #2 while thunder is casting* ~ contagion ~ *switch back to target #1* Ruin ~ Ruin II ~ *Switch to target #2 which has been contagion'd* ~ Bane ~ Obey > Aetherflow ~ Fester ~ thunder > Shadowflare > etc

IMO it's better and more reliable in some situations to Bane first, contagion a secondary target with more HP while casting something on the focus target, and re-bane again afterwards. This is assuming it's at the start of a fight where you'd have extra aetherflow charges to begin with.

Too many times I'd struggle or sacrifice DPS to hope garuda contagion'd target #1 before it went down and bane after, which caused the adds to always die slower.