T8 Dragoon and needing TP song early?
Alright, having a bit of a discussion.
For the first time, we downed T8 today. We run MNK, DRG, BRD, BLM, WAR, PLD, WHM, SCH. So the BRD has a lot to deal with - the usual missile mechanics, and singing songs, while maintaining high uptime on his DPS.
Well, after the clear, there was the obvious discussion of how we can improve our DPS - and one of the subjects came up to be songs. And one of the way to reduce the need for songs, is reducing how often we're using it because of how fast I'm burning through my TP.
For my DRG, I tend to push sub-500 TP after first dreadnaught. Easy to compensate for - about 50% of Dread's HP, I pop Invigorate. My standard rotation only includes the Phleubotomize for non-Skillchain DoT's.
By the time Invigorate comes back off CD, I'm usually at about 0-150 TP. This means I need a slight buffer of a song to help push me over and get me to keep 100% uptime.
Is there a way for DRG to compensate for this? My current gearset for our clear was:
Weapon: Weathered Liberator
Head: Allagan Visor (i90)
Body: Weathered Austrum (i100)
Hands: Weathered Austrum (i100)
Legs: Allagan (i90)
Feet: Weathered Austrum (i100)
Belt: Hero's Belt of Slaying (i100)
Ring1: Weathered Gloam (i100)
Ring2: Hero's Ring of Slaying (i90)
Bracelet: Allagan Bracelets of Maiming (i90)
Earrings: High Allagan Earrings (i110)
Neck: High Allagan Neck (i110)