Rotation Conflict?

[Ehiztari 0]

1. Enter Eclipse
2. Apply or maintain your Moonfire, Sunfire, and Stellar Flare (if talented)
3. Keep Celestial Alignment / Incarnation: Chosen of Elune (if talented) on cooldown
4. Cast Convoke the Spirits when you have less than 50 Astral Power. Try to pair with your other cooldowns but do not lose a use.
5. Spend your Astral Power on Starsurge or Starfall on multi-target.
6. Do not lose uses of Warrior of Elune, Force of Nature, or Fury of Elune (if talented).
7. Cast the Eclipse-appropriate filler.

Item 3 says to cast Celestial Alignment as a higher priority than (presumably that means before you cast) Convoke the Spirits.

The subsection on Convoke the Spirits Optimization says "Generally, you will play around your Convoke and not your Celestial Alignment, as you almost never want to cast Celestial Alignment without Convoke up as well."

I'm not quite understanding how I'm supposed to prioritize Celestial Alignment in my rotation but not generally cast Celestial Alignment without Convoke up.

Unless Convoke is a special sort of channel, if you actually managed to cast Celestial Alignment during Convoke, wouldn't it interrupt the channeling of Convoke?

If I am supposed to cast Convoke and then cast Celestial Alignment as it's channeling, shouldn't the rotation guide have those reversed?

I'm sorry to be a noodge about accuracy here, but either I'm badly misunderstanding what looks like fairly simple instructions or the two elements of the instructions are inconsistent with one another.

[Bora 8]

You cast Celestial Alignment then cast Convoke. 

What the one section refers to is that you can sometimes cast a naked Convoke but you will never cast a naked Celestial Alignment. That being said you still cast it before hand as it buffs it immensely.

[Ehiztari 0]

Got it. Differences in cooldowns I suspect.

I'm working on a (personal) Weak Aura reminder set for my priorities and this kinda confused me but as I mentioned it was (and is) likely just that I don't understand it, not that it's wrong.

 

Thanks, Bora.

 

🙂