Talk:Detect Vulnerability/@comment-3521588-20150323205811/@comment-98.89.8.217-20150419075536

Yes, it is affected by precept order.

It is an action the Sentinel is actively taking (i.e. not a passive trigger like Guardian). The Sentinel basically runs a loop over and over until it hits a precept it can actually do something with. However, once it does, it'll stop the loop, execute that one precept, and then restart the loop over from the beginning of the loop - bypassing any precepts remaining in the loop.

As a result, if you place Target Receptor before Detect Vulnerability, since both have a 30m range, you'll never activate Detect Vulnerability since Helois will just outright attack the target instead, every loop. On the other hand, since Detect Vulnerability has a cooldown, if you put it first, it'll Detect a target, then restart the loop. When it does, the Detect Vulnerability will be on cooldown, and then it'll move on to Target Receptor and attack a target, thus allowing both precepts to function.

In short, cast time doesn't matter, cooldown does, and this has one. So yes, it most certainly does!