How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

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Originally Posted by HeavenlyArmed

I see a lot of people talking theory about calculating BiS for certain Accuracy caps, but does anyone know what the actual caps are for any of the fights yet? Also, how much do you actually attack things from the front this tier?

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Well, I was running 650 for A5S and never missed. For A6S, I was at around 669 and 0 misses.

I can comfortably say, A5S will require the same accuracy caps as A4S, maybe less as you're RARELY attacking from the front except for when he turns around for a tank buster or if you get Prey and you decide to land a GCD as he runs into you.

For A6S... You'll be attacking from the front slightly bit more but I've never missed either. So maybe:

A5S: 630 -> 647
A6S: 640 -> 665?

A7S and A8S should have a much higher accuracy requirement Jump simply due to mechanics and If we looked at the A1S -> A4S, it was approximately a 55 Accuracy Jump... which is why I foresaw a +700 accuracy requirement.

I guess I could play around with my gear tomorrow and see what it is for A6S.

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Originally Posted by JackFross

Every dragoon should be buying the Slipstream pants next week. I'm planning on ring the following week, head the week after.

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Wait, what? Why not save up the lore for the Slipstream spear?

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Originally Posted by Aquaslash

Wait, what? Why not save up the lore for the Slipstream spear?

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Weapons will take 7 weekly clears of midas.

In that time you have enough lore for chest hands and legs while still being able to buy the weapon in week 7 iirc

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Originally Posted by Slappah

Weapons will take 7 weekly clears of midas.

In that time you have enough lore for chest hands and legs while still being able to buy the weapon in week 7 iirc

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You can buy a weapon with tomes and the weapon tome from A6 Savage, instead of waiting 7 weeks.

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Originally Posted by Sleigh

You can buy a weapon with tomes and the weapon tome from A6 Savage, instead of waiting 7 weeks.

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They were asking about the lore weapon, in which case your only choice is to clear Alex for 7 weeks

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Originally Posted by Slappah

They were asking about the lore weapon, in which case your only choice is to clear Alex for 7 weeks

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A6S drops the Hyper-Capacity Tomestone, then if you are able to kill A6S you can buy the weapon just in 3 weeks.

And that's an IF you get the A6S Tome.

Well ... DRG should be #1 or #2 in your group to get the tome, depending on your comp, just saying. At worst #3 if you've got an unfortunate MNK DRG BRD caster comp, but you get 3 weapon tomes by week 3 if you've cleared already.

My group raids 2 days per week for a total of 6 hours. Our DRK is out of town next week. Tonight we're doing Sephirot to finish getting weapons for everyone. Odds of killing A6S week 3 are slim at best. Also I made that post before it was confirmed that a tomestone drops in A6S D:

Current prediction for my group is A6S down in week 4 - first tome goes to BLM if he's got the tomes, me if not (NIN is buying a piece next week, too). I'll buy it week 5 and profit. Shrug.

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Originally Posted by coldheart21

Currently I'm at i211 and did SSS Seph EX. According to the SSS calculator I'm doing 1407.86 DPS. Is that a bit low for my gear level? I don't know how to boost it higher. This is without food, pots, buffs, or materia.

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That's a bit low. You should be able to push 1450-1500 at that gear level. I would try to help out, but I have no idea what you're doing. Food, pots, and materia don't change your dps all that much in those short parses, and you can't do them with party buff.

The only things are:
1. are you doing a proper opener?
2. 3 gsk per minute?
3. never delaying any gcd?
4. every single buff/ogcd skill being used on cooldown?

If you're doing all that and still reaching 1400, I dunno how to help without seeing a video or a parse breakdown on fflogs.

think it's better that if we ask for help (even I will at some point if I gear up more towards a7s) that we include a vid of us going at it at the SSS dummy's. If we can though, I'm on pc so its easy speaking for myself, but I can understand being it harder for players on ps4 and stuff.