BRD Cooldown sequence?

[EasymodeX]

I've only skimmed through the 'analysis', but it occurs to me that there's only a few relevant factors to consider:

1. You want buffs up when you DOT.
2. You want to allow the option to re-apply your DOTs with the buffs still up / before they expire.

The whole discussion centering on how awesome/not awesome the 20% chance of a SS autocrit seems moot when you should be considering how badly you want the DOTs up early so you can clip them less later -- or if that even matters much (which it may not).

At a minimum you want IR up before applying the first set of DOTs, and you want to re-apply them before IR expires. That basically bounds your "FIRST 30 SECONDS" discussion.

The only thing you want up before your DOTs is SS. So at a minimum you want:
SS - IR
WB
VB
[....]
WB
VB - IR_expires

You basically have 4* GCDs in between the DOT sets may not be sufficient to get all your relevant buffs up as well as throw down the fire AOE before for the second DOT set. You'll generally want to burn 1 BL early, and may get a proc for another, or two. The net result is that you have a lot of OGCDs to burn in the first 20-odd seconds and you may not have enough GCDs between which to actually use them.

Starting off with an HS could be useful simply to give enough time to get all your buffs up.


* Probably 5 GCDs of attacks if you have >0 skill speed by any measurable degree.