Originally Posted by
Cutsman
I modeled my opener off of Devai's opener (of dream paragon). It changes depending on whether you have glaive toss or barrage. This part before the pull remains the same however:
-10. Position pet as close to boss as possible without pulling
-7. If you have dash/dive macro'd into your misdirect macro, you need to cast it at least 6-7 seconds before the pull timer reaches 0 so pet can start fight with full focus.
-5. Hunter's mark anytime before the pull. Doesn't matter when, as it will be refreshed with the first explosive shot, but this HM will buff your first serpent sting.
If you are using barrage:
0. pre-pot
1. Serpent sting
2. Explosive shot
3. Black Arrow
4. Fervor + A Murder of Crows
5. Stampede + rapid fire + racial
6. Barrage
7. Cobra shot for t15 2 piece proc
8a. If LnL has procced, use up all procs
8b. If no LnL proc, explosive shot
9. Readiness + Explosive shot
10. Barrage
11. Normal priority
If you are using glaive toss:
0. pre-pot
1. serpent sting
2. Explosive shot.
3. Black arrow
4. Glaive Toss
5. Fervor + A murder of crows
6. Stampede + Rapid Fire + racial
7. Cobra shot for t15 2 piece proc
8a. If LnL has procced, use up all procs
8b. If no LnL proc, explosive shot
9. Readiness + explosive shot
10. glaive toss
11. Normal priority
Some notes:
- This rotation focuses on squeezing as many explosive shots out as possible, as it is our highest damaging move.
- Using explosive before black arrow in the beginning is important as you want explosive to be on cool down before any LnL procs can take place
- Barrage is used under rapid fire to lower its cast time, but I use glaive toss before fervor to reduce the chances of fervor focus capping me.
- The timing on the second black arrow is somewhat critical (after readiness). Though normally clipping black arrow is impossible due to its 20 second duration and 24 second cool down, using readiness in the opener means you can re-cast black arrow at any time. Ideally, like any other DoTs, black arrow should be reapplied when there is one tick left on the duration of the original black arrow. Black arrow ticks once every 2 seconds, so it should be refreshed when there is <1.99 seconds remaining on its duration. However, you will squeeze more damage out of black arrow if you can re-apply it during your trinket procs. This is especially true if you have a renataki's, as re-applying during the last 2 seconds of the renataki proc will snapshot black arrow with a high amount of agility, meaning that clipping one tick is okay if you can get the 2nd black arrow going with high agility. Thus, depending on the timing of my trinket procs, I may clip one tick (by casting when there is <3.99 seconds remaining on BA duration) just so my second black arrow can enjoy the snapshot of my trinkets. I have found with this rotation however that generally both my black arrow and trinket durations will end within 1 second of each other, giving me time to re-apply without clipping ticks.
- If my trinkets proc a second time during the first rapid fire, I tend to cast rapid fire again when it comes off cool down, as you can fit 5-6 seconds of the initial pre-pot into the 2nd rapid fire, though if trinkets didn't proc again it's worth waiting until they proc again before using rapid fire so you can overlap as much attack speed increase + trinket bonuses as possible. This of course can vary depending on the situation of each individual fight.