Yep, after a more exhaustive solo and duo session I can confirm that with epic and IFS compared to standard epic/SoS combo:
-assuming epic/epic is default, swapping in IFS for a quick round then back out
-proportional to how often you time the swap in/out (and comparing directly to epis/SoS) you will see ....
-more damage
-less ripostes
Win!
You really do need epic to make this work though. It's way too cumbersome to try and do this swapping between 2 1handers and the IFS. You don't have to be too anal doing this either, just make sure you pop the IFS <<OUT>> as soon as you swing your 2hb to maximize things. Worst case scenario you spend too much time epic/epic ... which isn't terribly worse than epic/SoS to begin with. The more intense you are with swapping it in, the higher the dps output. Once you start swinging your primary/secondary 9/16 epic fists the delay before your next 2hb swing is only 16 (pre-haste) so there's not a long wait once you pop it in before you swing and can pop it back out.
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