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Your cast times aren't accounting for server ticks (arcana time). The ice chain takes 4.36 sec rather than 3.74 that mids states.
I'm not sure how you are figuring you'll quadruple stack shriek. At 300% recharge (purple +rech build) shriek cycles every 1.94 seconds. I can't recall if shriek applies the -res at the beginning of the animation or at the end. I suppose it doesn't really matter though. It gives 5 seconds of debuff. Technically you'll stack three, but with only 0.06 seconds to spare I doubt you'll see more than double stack.
I don't have my sonic chains anymore, but I know a proper one can eb and flow between 4 and 6 stacks of the -res. It will do a lot more damage than just shriek spam. Way more once you start adding procs.
The longer cast of scream appears bad, but the first two ticks of damage apply the -res and the next 8 are self buffed. Very unique attack. As a result it ends up being your highest dpa attack.
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The rad/son build I posted had perma AM+Hasten as well as 5 purp sets and a couple other global recharge bonuses from a couple other random sets that totalled about +170% global recharge (the 170% is including the 100% from AM and Hasten), which puts shriek's recharge at about .83 sec (according to mid's) which means it looks like shriek can be spammed like neutrino bolt from rad blast (at least on paper). I've heard of Arcana Time before I don't know what that is?? How I was figuring I would be able to sustain -80% res from spamming shriek was I was thinking it would work like this:
each x = 1 sec of -20% res from shriek
each o = filler to make the x's line up
each x = the quad stacked -20% res that the 5th attack benefits from at the beginning of the 5th attack
Shriek1 x x x x x o o o
Shriek2 o x x x x x o o
Shriek3 o o x x x x x o
Shriek4 o o o x x x x x
I'm not sure if this is how it would actually work in practice, but in theory it seems like this would work... right? Also, it seems like a pretty sweet idea to throw the dec'm buildup proc in shriek with 5 apocalypse for some pretty sweet ST DPS when it procs.
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Like I said 0.83+1.188 = 1.948
I already gave you the benefit of having perma hasten+perma AM.
If shriek cycles every 1.95 seconds and the debuff lasts 5 seconds and it takes 1.188 seconds to cast how are you expecting to quad stack it?
IIRC a chain of shriek>scream>shriek>efence>repeat is going to give you the most damage.
Purple proc in shriek. Immob dam proc in efence.
Deci build up in shriek isn't bad, but the pvp dam procs in each attack is better. High -res with damage procs is ftw.
*the fast/easy way to figure out arcana time. Take mids cast time divide by 0.132, round that UP to the nearest whole number, then +1, take new number and mulitply by 0.132 = total cast time.
ex shriek cast 1.0/0.132 = 7.575757 --- round UP = 8 --- +1 = 9 then times by 0.132 = 1.188
