Originally Posted by Shigan
In my opinion : SW: D -> VT -> MB -> DP -> MF (wait till certain buffs are on the boss then cast SW: P)
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Depending on the players in your raid, you should have all the buffs up on the boss almost asap? I see posts from a lot of people stating that they wait 10 seconds or so before they cast SW:P. It should take about 10's to get a full stack of SW on the boss. By that time the raid should have the boss with full buffs to help SW:P do it's max damage.
If we are going to go by a 10 to 15 second rule on SW:P. Wouldn't we want to modify the way that we check our % of up time for SW:P? If your boss fight lasted for 300 seconds, we would want to change it to 290 or 285 to help make the SW:P % more accurate. Maybe people are all ready doing this, and maybe they are not.
I did some quick math and noticed that taking 15 seconds off of 300 will only decrease your needed ticks for 100% by 5 ticks. So lets say that you had 77 ticks of SW:P for a 300 second fight.
300/3 = 100
290/3 = 97 ( rounded up from 96.6 )
285/3 = 95
SW:P Ticks 77
77/100 = 77%
77/97 = 79%
77/95 = 81%
So if you took off 15 seconds then your not slacking but you could do a bit better. It's only a 4% difference but that could be important if your trying to hold a raid spot over another DPS or shadow priest.