Quote Originally Posted by Savish View Post
So using your math for a Dragoon
Assuming the numbers on the wiki are correct (don't have a DRG, so I can't check in game nor do I claim perfect knowledge of the DRG rotation)...

You're using a horribly ineffective rotation: the Chaos Thrust combo should only be used once every 30 seconds. You're also forgetting about the 10% increase in damage from Heavy Thrust, not to mention Phlebotomize (290 potency every 18 seconds which is pretty damned good; clip one tick off and you get 270).

Based upon that knowledge, your rotation should be as follows: Heavy Thrust(170)>Chaos Thrust(180>220>360)>Full Thrust(150>200>300)>Heavy Thrust(170)>Full Thrust(150>200>300)>Full Thrust(150>200>300)

Multipliers would be 1.1 for Heavy Thrust, 1/.9 for Disembowel, and 1.075 for Blood for Blood. Furthermore, you get one auto-crit from Life Surge every minute, which is once every 2 GCDs. That's a 50% damage on one attack every other run, so, use it on a Full Thrust and you get an extra 150 potency.

That's 3200 over 14 GCDs, for 228.57 from abilities per GCD.

You could throw in a Power Surge + Jump every 90 seconds for an extra 300 potency hit, but that's only an extra 1.98 potency per GCD, assuming it doesn't impact anything else, which you said it did so I won't bother.

Therefore the formula would be: (228.57 + 83.33) * 1.1 * 1.075 / .9 = 409.80.

I'm not even sure that's an optimized rotation, since Phlebotomize hits for 290 potency potentially every 8 GCDs or so, which, if used, would bolster that by a fair bit more (~7.68 additional baseline potency), nor do am I sure that it's actually including every buff available.

Furthermore, stat allocations for DPS and tanks are different. DPS classes get more DPS stats as they level. Tank gear has Parry and Accuracy on it with more Vit. DPS gear has Acc and Determination with lower Vit allowing for a more stats to be distributed to DPS stats. A DRG is going to get more out of the same potency than a WAR or PLD is so, even if a PLD or WAR has more potency by default, that potency is going to end up providing less real DPS.

Hell, I'm not even a DRG and I came up with a better rotation than you. You may want to actually learn your class a bit better before you start trying to tell me I don't know what I'm doing.