Originally Posted by
evralia
You're not missing anything off UA because the refresh window at level 90 is so large, and as I specified in my example, UA was 2 seconds away from entering its refresh window, not 2 seconds away from expiry. You get a period equal to 50% of its base duration in which you can refresh it without penalty. If your dots are about to expire before your channel finishes (due to tunnel vision) then you would obviously clip to refresh them - nobody is contesting that. My point was and still is, that it is a tiny loss in DPS to clip a MG at 2 ticks versus clipping it at 4 ticks, on its own merit. You can see this inherently by its own DPET time.
If we go by the numbers I gave in the previous example of a tick amount of 1000 and a human error latency of 0.3 seconds, then the DPET of a 4 tick MG would be:
4000 / 4.3 = 930
Whereas the DPET of a 2 tick MG would be:
2000 / 2.3 = 869
Obviously these numbers are totally made up, but you get the point.
So once again, I will say - it is better to get a 4 tick MG off rather than a 2 tick one if you can. At level 90, with proper planning, you should always be able to do this. At level 85, that might not always be the case, since your refresh window is so small.