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Cutting a second off HS or Consecration, by definition, reduces threat generation. If you have one less tick on Consecration every 17-18 seconds, then you have that much less threat. Cutting a second off HS can mean reduced threat if it gets eaten up before coming off cooldown (AoE environment).
Does it? You cut off 1 second because you refresh it. How does that reduce threat? If you could explain that in better detail, maybe I'll understand your point better. Both ways have HS and Consecration up 100% of the time. How does one give more threat than the other?
Hold on a second, I think we're talking at cross purposes.
Due to the cooldown on Consecrate, you're never going to be able to 'cut-off' the damage you lay down. You're always going to get 8 ticks of damage, no matter what you try to do to speed up the casting. Ok, we can agree on that.
Now, if you can cast 2 Consecrates every 16 seconds (i.e. you launch a new Consecrate the moment it comes off cooldown), then you essentially get 16 ticks over 16 seconds. Maximum threat/damage per second.
If you cast 2 Consecrates every 18 seconds (as per the 9-6 rotations), then you're getting 16 ticks over 18 seconds, which will give you 11% worse threat/damage per second.
Perhaps it doesn't reduce threat generation overall, which is what I suspect now you were trying to say. But for the purposes of looking at the use of Consecrate in isolation, it does.
As for getting defensive, look at it from my point of view - you've called me up on something I've stated, then gone on to repeat moreorless the same things as if you hadn't read the rest of my post, clearly outlining the lack of HotR mathematically, instead of a more vague 'on CD'. So it suggests that you didn't really care for what I wrote.
And then you've gone on to contradict yourself in your final statement:
Question for the OP - how does not using HotR on every CD give you better AoE threat? For max AoE threat, I would think that you would want:
1) HS up 100% of the time
2) Consecration up 100% of the time
3) HotR on CD 100% of the time
The OP keeps HS up 100% of the time, and in a mass AOE situation where HS charges get used up, keeps it up more than a conventional 9-6 rotation. The OP also keeps Consecration up for a greater % of time than the 9-6 rotation. So the only thing he doesn't do is point 3. It's not a convincing argument in words unless you demonstrate that the HotR loss is worse than the Consecrate uptime.
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