Originally Posted by
konway
Get in touch with your spirit animal and beg for its advice. If your spirit animal isn't answering, you could try flipping a coin or rolling some dice. Logic, deduction and other pseudo-scientific hokum are absolute last resorts.
That makes no sense. If your DPS is dropping because you're DoTing too many targets, stop DoTing after 3-4 and focus on higher priority spells. FDCL will obviously cap out at some point, but Mindbender has no way to "catch up" on multi-target fights because it only damages a single target.
The only way I can imagine Mindbender coming out on top would be when there are enough mobs grouped together that Mind Sear is your top priority by a large margin. In that case, the single GCD required for Mindbender would probably be a small DPS gain, but any GCDs spent on DoTs or other single-target spells would all be a waste. I'm not sure where you'd encounter that sort of thing in a boss fight though...