Marksmanship Sniper/Sharpshooter Gunslinger Compendium

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(06-08-2012 04:35 AM)toaae Wrote:  

Quote:Lowering this to 13.5 or 14.5 seconds doesn't add a whole lot because it doesn't fit neatly into the 6-second FT sequence.

I am have trouble understanding this, and just want to ask for clarification.

I understand the math behind those numbers, but I don't understand how that works with what I am seeing on the PTS. I spent 15 minutes on a combat dummy, and I had no issue at all maintaining a 1:1 ratio of Ambush to Snipe. I tried both full rotations and basic ones where I just used Rifle Shot to push the rotation along. No matter what, I had no issue maintaining a SoS-Ambush-FT-X-X-Snipe-FT rotation.

That said, it wasn't perfect. I would occasionally be a fraction of a second ahead of Ambush's cooldown, but it was so small, I feel like it falls in an acceptable window. So, is there something I'm missing?

The sequence you mentioned, {SoS - Ambush - FT - X - X - Snipe FT}, is 8 GCDs in length. If it's consistently taking 13.5s rather than the 12.0s that is required, that means there's a full second and a half being lost in there (i.e. 11% of our total time is spent just sitting there with no action being taken).

Generally, we want to spend all our time and all our energy, as both are resources that can be translated into damage. However, we'll see how it works out once I work out the math behind it (which I won't do until this patch gets a little closer to being finalized).