Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

Said this on war thread, and i will sai it her also:

Good Luck in 2.1, hope its ur time shine :)

Been seeing some chatter about dropping Fracture from the rotation improving DPS. I previously thought the only reason to drop Fracture was to keep the Heavy Thrust buff from falling before you can get Full Thrust out. If you aren't having problems with this, is there still a reason to drop Fracture?

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Originally Posted by AvonRekaes

Been seeing some chatter about dropping Fracture from the rotation improving DPS. I previously thought the only reason to drop Fracture was to keep the Heavy Thrust buff from falling before you can get Full Thrust out. If you aren't having problems with this, is there still a reason to drop Fracture?

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Everything depends on context of the fight, this is discussed pretty thoroughly throughout the thread and the OP. On a dummy using a Fracture-less rotation will parse slightly higher.

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Originally Posted by Swarna

The value of Skill speed is lower than shown because it does not affect our off-global jumps/leg sweeps at all (while DET and Crit do) which will account for about 16 potency/second in update 2.1.

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Originally Posted by pompey_dan

If the translated patch notes were correct about buffed DoT's being able to be overwritten then skill speed could become viable but you would also have to take into account the last tick of chaos thrust being wasted which would be -30 potency every 30 seconds.

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Swarna and Pompey_Dan, thank you for your thoughtful and informative responses which have been plenty convincing.

If you can stack DoT in 2.1 that would be nice!

With the new gear the BiS gear does change, although this change is really minimal.

Assuming weights are as follows:
Statistic Weight
Weapon Damage 7.540
Strength 1.000
Determination 0.220
Critical Hit Rating 0.160
Skill Speed 0.146

The new BiS gives the following total weight when all attributes are added from armor alone, 618.176.
The old BiS gear gave a total weight of the following: 618.092.

This gives us a 0.01359% increase, really really negligible but here is the list anyway.

Weapon: Relic+1
Head: Allagan
Body: Myth
Hands: Allagan
Legs: Allagan
Feet: Allagan
Waist: Myth
Necklace: Allagan Striking
Earring: Tremor
Bracelet: Allagan Maiming
Ring: Allagan Striking
Ring2: Vortex

This was calculated with an accuracy requirement of 470. I can calculate at any number if anybody wishes, just let me know. With this setup the differences from old BiS is as follows:
-gain 8 points of determination
-lose 5 points of critical hit
-lose 6 points of skill speed

Relic+1 is still best? Huh.

I assume the accuracy loss was just really nasty then?

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Originally Posted by AugustusSB

...With the new gear the BiS gear does change, although this change is really minimal...

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Did you forget the Allagan Polearm buff?

Where the F is EMX?

I didn't put that holy lance into my database, didn't think it would affect it, but i can recalculate with it included, will do it tomorrow though. still at work got out of a conference call where i got grilled to no end ha...oh man

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Originally Posted by AugustusSB

The new BiS gives the following total weight when all attributes are added from armor alone, 618.176.
The old BiS gear gave a total weight of the following: 618.092.

This gives us a 0.01359% increase, really really negligible but here is the list anyway.

Weapon: Relic+1
Head: Allagan
Body: Myth
Hands: Allagan
Legs: Allagan
Feet: Allagan
Waist: Myth
Necklace: Allagan Striking
Earring: Tremor
Bracelet: Allagan Maiming
Ring: Allagan Striking
Ring2: Vortex

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Using Ayvar's list I could be wrong but i'm getting 628.862