Originally Posted by Calen
The part about not being able to cut a rip short is quite untrue..
If your AP has increased due to procs, temporary group/raid buffs, or if you've got a 5 point rip queued, and a 4 point running, you can and will overwrite a rip. I suppose it might be possible that overwriting the last seconds of a 4 point rip with a buffed 5 point might be a net dps gain, if you're somehow swimming in energy, but that seems pretty unlikely.
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I think he just meant you can't if you want to do well, not like you physically can't. Roughly 50% of the time you physically can't overwrite it, the other 50% you just shouldn't. Only with a ton of lucky crits on consecutive sets of combo points and Omen or 2t4 procs would you ever be in a situation where you were forced to hit something to burn off energy before rip finished ticking. Even then, you still would only have enough spare energy to throw in 1 extra shred, regen, then rip and mangle.