Guild Wars 2

So for D/D
All the good guides out there say that “each sequential skill of the auto-attack is weaker than it’s previous skills.”

However taking a look at the cast times and damage: http://puu.sh/gLUCF/a773a80903.png

I noticed that for the cast time listed, wild strike has the best dps in the rotation. I took to the target dummies and tested for weird aftercast delays using CnD, dancing daggers and steal skills. I couldn’t find any different in after-cast delays.
I found that DS-DD took .867seconds, DS-WS-DD took 1.367, meaning WS has a cast time of .5 (which is very close to the listed cast time of .55)

Where is this discrepancy coming from? Are the guides and public opinion wrong? Is the spreadsheet wrong?

I didn’t test the cast time of these skill, but did you took into account the poison of the Lotus Strike?

Hi,

That quote is written by me. I authored this guide:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13ovddAZbEBkFVPyGGBLztFAyLGgwHZjFPYc4uYXder4/edit#gid=0

How did you calculate your times?

xxx.9514:

Hi,

That quote is written by me. I authored this guide:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13ovddAZbEBkFVPyGGBLztFAyLGgwHZjFPYc4uYXder4/edit#gid=0 (slightly outdated you just need to fix the crit damage, but that doesnt effect what I was testing so meh)

How did you calculate your times?

There’s a very comprehensive spreadsheet that has all the cast times included, so first I used those. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B3A3Op-Hj3dOUkJRU0xvcng5ZWc/edit

Now it was saying wild strike was WAAAY better then duel strike, so I did some in-game tests to make sure there was no aftercast delay. So I used fraps and measured the time it took to do rotations. The numbers were almost exactly the same as the spreadsheet.

Wild Strike is the highest DPS strike in the chain; if you’re going to use your basic attack between spenders at all, you want to at least land the Wild Strike.