Opener

Zank opener can change a lot depending on the boss you’re fighting and the skill advancement you use.

The general goal of all openers is ultimately the same: enrage the boss, buff your party, debuff the boss, cast Colossal Fury. It’s not a strict opener and slight deviations are fine, especially if the boss starts doing attacks you can’t ignore immediately. One thing to remember about Colossal Fury is that you always want to cast it during your stronger dragon buff. You only get one hit so it should be as strong as possible.

Extremely generic opener that assumes nothing happens when you first aggro the boss:

Assume brooch and root beer are used after Bloodlust for the rest of this section. Root Beer will be off cooldown for every burn and brooch should be off cooldown every other burn. If you get to your third Bloodlust and brooch isn’t off cooldown, you are casting Bloodlust too early, aim to cast it exactly at every 90 seconds, which means holding it for a few seconds each time.

When using the Damage Enhancement skill advancement on FL, it is a good idea to put FL on cooldown before using Colossal Fury. This has the effect of replacing TS in the standard rotation:

The reason we use Raze > FL before PS is because it allows us to cancel the Bloodlust animation faster, and speed is very important at the beginning of the fight. The damage loss on the first FL being unbuffed is very minor unless it is an extremely short fight.

When using the Strategist skill advancement on FL, we want to use FL away from the boss to give ourselves a self buff for TS:

In this case, cancelling Bloodlust animation ends up not being worth it due to FL’s damage being very weak with this advancement, and we want to use Colossal Fury before the first TS to get as many TS casts in the duration of the buff from Colossal Fury.

Regardless of the chosen skill advancement, it is worth casting Axe Counter before Colossal Fury if the boss allows it:

Having the Axe Counter charging speed buff is just a net positive, and this doesn’t delay the opener since Axe Counter has such a fast cast time.