Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[Swarna]

If anyone is interested in my calculations for determining that Skill Speed has the potential to be a better #3 stat than DET and possibly Crit, here is the hard data with summation.

http://www.amongthespheres.com/uploa..._Stat_Calc.xls

Two points:
-The value of Crit rating is lower than shown because Life Surge and Internal Release favour other stats (sans SS for Life Surge) for the globals in which they are used.
-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. Also, unless the animation times of jumps have been reduced to an amount where they won't delay the execution of the subsequent on-global attack the value of Skill speed is also even more slighly less (as you gain no benefit from the stat for those globals). Life Surge also does not benefit at all from Skill Speed.

Therefore, it would be more accurate to observe the benefit of stats based on a simulation of actions in a "perfect rotation".

That being said, I do tend to think SS is vastly underrated and that its main complaint (TP starving) is highly-exaggerated. Its usage becomes largely pointless if we consider a static rotation based on our buff and DoT timers where the extra attack speed doesn't get put to much use.