[YellowcarQueen]

Personally, I feel that prioritizing an opener for a profile brings down the overall versatility of the profile to react to changing conditions (Movement, interrupts, random hiccups, etc).

I tried to implement the perfect opener for SMN for quite a while and gave up eventually as the bot doesn't seem to cater towards these perfect set-ups very well, but performs very well when you follow simple rules to prioritize what I consider the most important aspects of each job.

For SMN, I wanted to prioritize maintaining of your DOTs of course, utilizing Dreadwyrm Trance when available, casting 5 Ruin IIIs during Dreadwyrm Trance, and the use of Deathflare at the end of Dreadwyrm Trance. I'm confident that the profile will out damage 99% of the player base consistently all things considered equal due to the simple fact that people being people cannot maintain the same level of efficiency as the bot can. I've parsed a lot of dungeons and raids while running the bot and I find this claim to be consistent because the bot doesn't make mistakes in rotation, suffer from fatigue, or get lazy. Ultimately, the person that designed the profile or the user is responsible for any issues regarding performance.

Bottom line is that I prioritize consistent damage and being able to react to changing conditions over a profile designed to deliver a really big number at the beginning of a fight.

I can fully appreciate this and I do recognize the thought you have put into this profile as well as others (your smn profile does amazing things). I was just making an attempt to critically evaluate this for you from the viewpoint of running it through savage turns 1-4. Lining up large burst openers is pretty important since at least 2 of the fights depend on massive dps unloading before first phase change. Regardless of the opener small things lead to a loss of dps if you cant fit them in the wildfire window which is the MCH bread and butter will lead to overall loss of dps. It pops ricochet prior to wildfire and doesn't fit in blank at all. If I were to improve on this thats where I would start.

On Ricochet, won't you lose dps since Wildfire is on a longer timer compared to Ricochet?

I can easily add blank to the profile and have it execute when the target has the wildfire debuff, but you have to be very close to the target for blank to execute.

Wouldn't head graze or feint be more suitable for this? As of now it's not possible to only have these two skills execute strictly when moving, but I can definitely make sure they only execute during wildfire.