Now, this one has been getting to me all day...
BW + Blood Lust have a 2 minute cooldown
RF can have a 5 min, 4 min or 3 min cooldown.
That leaves a few different times at which they can "Sync up": 3 minutes, 4 minutes, 6 minutes or 10 minutes.
To use both of them at the same time every 3 minutes, you'd have to base it off of your RF (with 2 points into Rapid Killing). During a 10 minute fight, you'd be able to get off 4 of these rotations, with 1 minute left on your next BW, and 2 minutes on your next RF. You'd get 4 opportunities to use them together.
So this rotation would look like BW+RF, BW+RF, BW+RF, BW+RF
for a 4 minute sync up, you'd have to have only 1 point into Rapid Killing (I suppose you could have 2 points in it, but it would be a point wasted). This rotation would use BW every two minutes and RF every 4 minutes. You'd only get three opportunities to use them together, but two opportunities to use BW alone (again, considering a 10 minute fight).
This Rotation would be BW+RF, BW, BW+RF, BW, BW+BF
Now a 6 minute rotation would have to have 2 points into RF. This one just uses the two skills as soon as each of them are up. This creates 2 opportunities to use them together, 2 to use just BW, and 2 to use RF
It would be: BW+RF, BW, RF, BW, BW+RF, BW, RF
I'd go over the 10 minute rotation, but it's rare to see a raiding hunter that doesn't have any points into Rapid Killing, and it's obvious that it's not the best choice.
It took me long enough to think of all that. I'm not really sure how I would even go about testing which one is best. I suppose I could head out to Mr. Boom and test. I'm not sure I want to, though... I'm so wrapped up in school right now that I barely have enough time to do my dailies every day, let alone sit around and test stuff like that.
Anyone have any insight, or instructions on how to test that in Cheeky's Spreadsheet?
Edited, Jan 29th 2008 7:04pm by ProjectMidnight