Quote Originally Posted by Ipkonfig View Post
And just to make sure I understand correctly by roll you mean use one after the other for DPS CDs? So like Raging Strikes, right as it wears off Internal Release, then after that wears off blood for blood, then Berserk?
By roll I basically meant keep them all on cooldown as much as possible. But this game is honestly a little weird. The buffs above all stack multiplicatively, essentially, which mean's it's better to have them all active at the same time. But since they have ~1 second cast time it's better to do something like Heavy Swing -> Raging Strikes -> Maim -> Internal Release -> Storm's Path -> Blood for Blood, so you aren't wasting as much time stacking buffs (once you stack 3 without using a cooldown attack you are losing a significant amount of buff time on the first one you cast.

I don't know about dragoons, and really I haven't done the math, but I'm fairly sure 70 tp cost for 10% crit buff and a 140 potency attack is going to come out pretty good for a MRD/WAR. It's not as good as maim, but it's still good. Just as an estimation method, the average potency of your maim combo is ~203. So if the 10% bonus to crit is > the difference (60 potency) over a 20 second duration it would be worth using.

Approximating 10% crit as 5% damage, in 20 seconds you get 7 globals (one is take up by the straight shot skill). Ignoring Fracture for now, 7*203 = 1421 potency worth of attacks. You also get ~83 potency worth of auto attacks per 2.5 seconds, and for these you can count the 2.5 seconds after straight shot, so 8*83 = 664. Adding those you have ~2085 potency worth of attacks going out in that time frame. And 5% increased damage is going to be ~104.2 additional potency, which is greater than the 60 potency deficit between the average maim combo hit and straight shot.

This is mostly an estimation method, but based on that I would say it's worth using if you're going MRD.

With that said, I'm still not convinced it would be worth going MRD and losing access to Bravura.

P.S. yes I think improved maim has a very marginal usefulness due to the duration of Storm's Eye.