[Stormblood] [Dragoon Rotation] COME ON AND SLAM

I'm curious about the above as well.

Seeing as SAM is certainly going to be left behind until 5.0, I figured it might be worthwhile to pick up DRG again. Anyone got a good reference for what the opener should be, currently?

I figured it was something along the lines of: Pre-pull BoTD. HT(DS)>ID(BFB+Litany)>Dis(Pot)>CT(Jump)>WT(Mirage+Geir)>FC(SSD)>TT(Mirage)>VT(LS)>FT(DfD). Kind of difficult since I can't use WTFast and my latency isn't the greatest, but correct anything I'm mistaken on. I think I'm definitely confused on where Geir should be placed in the opener, since it affects when I can enter LoTD later.

Also, speaking of LoTD, people say it's (current fights anyway) better to hold LoTD. Is the simple way of 'holding' it, to just enter LoTD as you see your second BfB come up? And by 'holding' it, aren't your mirage dives technically wasted? Potency-wise, obviously not, but the stacks they'd accumulate... isn't that going to affect you at some point or the other? Or am I misunderstanding...? Because the way people talk about it, it sounds like you're using Mirages while you're at 3 eyes.

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HT(DS)>ID(BFB+Litany)>Dis(Pot)>CT(Jump)>WT(Mirage+Geir)>FC(SSD)>TT(Mirage)>VT(LS)>FT(DfD)

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My contention is, if you do GK that late, you're going to have 3 eye stacks but GK will be like 10-12 sec away. If you Jump super early and GK super early, by the time Jump is up again, GK will be ready and that 2nd Jump will give you 3 stacks so you can GK into LoTD fairly quickly. If done correctly, you should pretty much always be in LoTD with like 10s delay between each LotD phase.

Hold mirage dive to use your second geirskogul without triggering Lotd then do Lotd 35sc later with your timers just like you used to.

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Originally Posted by Shamox

Hold mirage dive to use your second geirskogul without triggering Lotd then do Lotd 35sc later with your timers just like you used to.

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Are you sure about that? I'm asking because I really wanna know.

HT(litany+botd), ID(b4b+ds), Dis(jump), CT(mirage+gierskogul), WT(spineshatter), F&C(dragonfire), TT(mirage), VT(life surge), FT, F&C, WT...without pot

So, should we hold the third mirage dive or not?

Hello Dragoons,

I know it is kinda early for that, but do we have any solid info regarding our BiS for 4.2 and possible SKS new cap?

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Originally Posted by Rockavlon

Hello Dragoons,

I know it is kinda early for that, but do we have any solid info regarding our BiS for 4.2 and possible SKS new cap?

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As far as I am aware atm, Skill Speed is still not something we are going to want, you should probably just try to get as little as possible.
The BIS list I am going for is http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/14T6Q

I landed in a dungeon the other night with a DRG who was pulling DPS numbers I didn't think were possible. So out of curiosity I looked up their character and saw that they have an extremely high crit rate via over-melding, but they also boosted their skill speed to like 1400. I don't suppose there's some kind of break-even point where having a higher skill speed might actually be desirable, despite the clipping?

So for someone picking up drg looking to do 60-70 what would be a decent opener + rotation for level 60 before getting sb skills. Haven't played drg since hw by the way.