Originally Posted by
Judai
My small sample testing on dummies as a Lv60 BRD shows a 30dps increase with fulltime WM, and that's simply standing there. In a real battle with actual movement, the DPS increase will disappear. Currently, I personally open with WM and get dots/barrage>emp/side/re-apply dots with IJ> turn off WM and I am generally done with it, unless my buffs are up again and there is short downtime to re-apply it.
People have suggested the popular "stance dancing" but to apply it mid fight, you take your normal shot>wait until gcd is up(2.5s~), sing for 3s, shoot which takes 1.5s~w. That's at most 7s of 0 damage, at best prolly like 6s. and completely unacceptable. WM in it's current state is pretty near worthless, it will need a pretty big buff of some kind to be viable imo.
It's nice to see some big numbers here and there, and Barrage> Emp is great but overall, it's pretty awful. It's kind of sad how badly SE implemented the new BRD skills. I think some of the BRDs who are saying it's amazing are just getting fooled by the big numbers, and not actually parsing.