Quote Originally Posted by Sparhwk View Post
Perfecting rotation and boss encoutners goes a long way to maxing dps.

Gear also. Hime you have too much skill speed and you aren't putting strength materia into your darksteel. Str is our best stat. Should be capping it first.
HQ darksteel is str capped by default. skill speed melded onto the boots because crit/skillspeed are the only useful stats you can meld onto that piece since everything else is capped. excess skill speed can be attributed to allagan pieces featuring skillspeed as a secondary stat; albeit the ss is undesirable, the 4 str~ is an upgrade over better itemized darklight pieces.

it's one thing to argue about rotations, but the class still has its damage limits. reaching the execution ceiling for rotations on a stationary target is easy, which is why judging baseline dps of different classes on a dummy is done. regardless, even with a 100% optimal rotation featuring the highest potency per second on a dummy, i'd have a hard time believing that a DRG can reliably parse 300+ with relic +1 and full DL. (feel free to prove me wrong! it'd make my day.)