I'm not how much the meta has changed since then, but I believe it was around the time of either second or third coil that a raid-caliber Monk parsed on a dummy.
Including Touch of Death stuck him at 407 DPS.
Ignoring Touch of Death stuck him at 402 DPS.
It's safe to skip 99.9% of the time. It takes a full 30 seconds to get the damage across, so if an enemy dies before (I think?) 27s of those ticks land you lose DPS compared to just punching something with a normal attack.
Citation: Napkin math and selective memory for a job I don't play
Including Touch of Death stuck him at 407 DPS.
Ignoring Touch of Death stuck him at 402 DPS.
It's safe to skip 99.9% of the time. It takes a full 30 seconds to get the damage across, so if an enemy dies before (I think?) 27s of those ticks land you lose DPS compared to just punching something with a normal attack.
Citation: Napkin math and selective memory for a job I don't play