Originally Posted by
Basmothh
Is it really worth using AA on CD in P2 though? You lose the ability to precast AA/DS to build DA for Whirl 1 and 3. Casting AA/DS with 9-10s before a Whirl allows you to get your full AA/SS off, while also allowing you to cast another AA/DS 2-3s before Whirl ends. I can't imagine that the additional healing from using AA on CD is going to surpass that of an AA/DS, especially if you consider that there isn't much damage without Empowered Gripping Despair (using AA is also technically a small DPS loss considering you lose 5x Evan stacks).
I guess my point is that while the current incarnation of DS encourages us to use AA on CD for most fights, there are fights with timers that don't line up in 30s intervals (Whirling Corruption) or where you have to use Halo (Malk, Sha if your raid doesn't stack QQ) that can favour staggering the use of AA.