Extremely disappointed in my Dragoon after attempting T4

[Ryuko]

If you are normally parsing well, I don't understand how you are parsing so low on a dreadnaught where your job is to literally just stand still and push out as much dps as humanly possible for the entire phase...

Either A) your parser is not accurate or B) you are not putting as much dps as you could be putting out on your DRG.

It's one or the other. I'd also be curious to see what your rotation is compared to Ayase. It wouldn't mean much to me because I don't know DRG, but it would settle the debate of if you're using the right skills once and for all... because it seems people are doubting you.

[Axidrain]

Yeah I don't understand it. I easily put 310 in titan on my DRG. I have no idea if that was a bad parse on T4 or what, but it doesn't matter. Even if it's a bad parser, I'm still using the same one for my DRG and BRD. It's literally telling me that my BRD is on par with my DRG in terms of dps. It's actually making me quite angry considering I don't want to play BRD as main, but if it's so imbalanced, I will have to if I want to do the best DPS.

best dps is blackmage by a huge margin. at comparable level and gear they will do almost 20% more damage throughout. especially in coil since they dont really have to do much apart from dps-ing

[Tenku]

because it seems people are doubting you.

Heavy Thrust > Internal Release > Blood for Blood > Phlebotomize > Leg Sweep > Impulse Drive > Power Surge > Disembowel > Jump > Chaos Thrust > True Thrust > Vorpal Thrust > Life Surge > Full Thrust > Heavy Thrust > Phlebotomize > Dragonfire Dive > True Thrust > Vorpal Thrust > Full Thrust > Leg Sweep > True Thrust > Vorpal Thrust > Splineshatter Dive > Full Thrust

Ayase. Can you tell me what you're doing different please?

Also... how the heck do you use this parser? It seems to analyze only things that happened an hour ago. How do I make it show me my parse for what I did 2 minutes ago?

[Noroi_Kisaragi]

Can someone PLEASE explain how my Monk is barely hitting 200 in Turn 4?

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/1178631/

My gear is perfect for this and my skills are well honed. I think my tactic is fine, I have a video I could care if you need to see how i'm approaching it.

I can tell you right now though that I am -not- popping Blood for Blood or Mercy Blow. Are they that mandatory in Turn 4 to the point where if you dont have em it wipes the entire party? I've been trying to beat Turn 4 for weeks and i've not been in a party that can safely get past the first dreadnaught. Can any monks here help me out?

[Nitesco]

Heavy Thrust > Internal Release > Blood for Blood > Phlebotomize > Leg Sweep > Impulse Drive > Power Surge > Disembowel > Jump > Chaos Thrust > True Thrust > Vorpal Thrust > Life Surge > Full Thrust > Heavy Thrust > Phlebotomize > Dragonfire Dive > True Thrust > Vorpal Thrust > Full Thrust > Leg Sweep > True Thrust > Vorpal Thrust > Splineshatter Dive > Full Thrust

Ayase. Can you tell me what you're doing different please?

Also... how the heck do you use this parser? It seems to analyze only things that happened an hour ago. How do I make it show me my parse for what I did 2 minutes ago?

But I thought you did more DPS then she did.
Seems everyone now wants Ayase's rotation seeing how good of a DRG she is.
I'll help you out a little, here use this

[Dano]

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why aren't you popping blood for blood? that's like 20% increase in dmg, the dreadnaught doesn't do any AoEs, you won't be standing infront of it either so there's no risk for you.The first dreadnaught is a strict dps check, you want it down as fast as possible. Sidenote: some groups doesn't kill the first dreadnaught outright, they just pull it to the south side and make sure the bugs don't get fed.

this here is an excellent video of a mnk's prospective on turn 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWMJBoOwepg

[Esmian]

why aren't you popping blood for blood? that's like 20% increase in dmg,

Cause his lancer is only lv 28. But yeah, you're seriously bringing down your dps without blood for blood and being a detriment to your group without it.

[Hubbabubbagump]

Can someone PLEASE explain how my Monk is barely hitting 200 in Turn 4?

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/1178631/

My gear is perfect for this and my skills are well honed. I think my tactic is fine, I have a video I could care if you need to see how i'm approaching it.

I can tell you right now though that I am -not- popping Blood for Blood or Mercy Blow. Are they that mandatory in Turn 4 to the point where if you dont have em it wipes the entire party? I've been trying to beat Turn 4 for weeks and i've not been in a party that can safely get past the first dreadnaught. Can any monks here help me out?

Blood for blood is not necessary in Turn 4, but it is nice to have. It'll definitely improve your burst dps though. As for barely hitting 200, your rotation definitely needs work, like if you're popping touch of death on a mob that dies quickly. -cough-

[Noroi_Kisaragi]

why aren't you popping blood for blood? that's like 20% increase in dmg, the dreadnaught doesn't do any AoEs, you won't be standing infront of it either so there's no risk for you.The first dreadnaught is a strict dps check, you want it down as fast as possible. Sidenote: some groups doesn't kill the first dreadnaught outright, they just pull it to the south side and make sure the bugs don't get fed.

this here is an excellent video of a mnk's prospective on turn 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWMJBoOwepg

I can't tell what his rotations are.

I've been doing

Dragon Kick -> Touch of Death (if it needs to be procced) -> Twin Snakes -> Demolish -> Bootshine -> True Strike -> Snap Punch

Is that proper? I can't find much of a guide on endgame monks but that's what i've been doing the entire time and my damage has been okay. If it's just a matter of blood for blood then that's kind of stupid that your party will wipe if the monk isn't using it. I don't like Blood for Blood as it means i'll take aggro and die a lot quicker (I already steal aggro all the time without using it, so I honestly don't know why my dps is 205 on a parser for T4)

[permbanned]

The gears on Bards have all DEX and your attributes are all DEX which adds to accuracy. I am accuracy capped with those gears on bard for T4.

DEX does not add accuracy. This isn't FFXI, read the tooltips.