Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[Krowky]

H IDC P TTT H TTT P IDC H TTT P TTT. TTT a short way of abbreviating True Thrust Combo? Sorry I'm retarded on abbreviations. lol

[Peptaru]

TTT is the generic thrust combo, yeah.

[Krowky]

Ok, it was just weird looking at that abbreviation as TTT. xD

[Zaranghae]

Hi, I'm trying to switch over to the new rotation posted before for post 2.1. However, I wanted to confirm if this is the best rotation with buffs and jumps. Also, after this partial rotation, you're supposed to wait for all buffs to cooldown, and then restart it again right? As in, don't start up Internal Release even though Blood for Blood is still on cooldown just to maximize dps? Lastly, what exactly is clipping? In my interpretation, it's for example, Chaos Thrust is at 4 seconds left and then you hit the IDC combo so Chaos thrust is refreshed even though CT is already at 4 seconds? How does this lower dps?

2.0:
HT [IR] Ph [BFB] Imp [Leg] Dis [PS] CT [Jump] TT [SSD] VT [LS] FT [DFD]

2.1:
HT [IR] Imp [BFB] Dis [PS] CT [Jump] Ph [Leg] TT [SSD] VT [LS] FT [DFD]
or
HT [BFB] Imp [IR] " "

[Razgard]

So I got my gryphonskin ring and kinda' messed up on the materias. I put vit8, crit4, crit4, det3, det3 since I thought that was the cap on it from the materia cap chart. How much of a DPS loss is 4 crit and 2 det, anything significant or am I just worrying for nothing?

[EasymodeX]

CT now with my gear does like 49-52 per tick, clipping the last tick of CT every 30 seconds would mean a 1.63 dps loss no ?

Clipping accounted for. Still better. You will clip the "last tick" regardless of SS as long as SS is >0. You have to meet/exceed +105 SS before you are at risk of losing a second tick. Differences in DPS based on gear sets are very minute. You can optimize for more DTR if you #believe in DTR. DTR and total damage formula still unknown. SS still obnoxious because you can get v. low on TP if you try hard enough to optimize DPS with multiple targets and ROT/Doomspike. Also, SCH with Selene pew pew pew.

[EasymodeX]

I wanted to confirm if this is the best rotation with buffs and jumps.

2.1:
HT [IR] Imp [BFB] Dis [PS] CT [Jump] Ph [Leg] TT [SSD] VT [LS] FT [DFD]
or
HT [BFB] Imp [IR] " "

Use BFB first for more time overlap between BFB and IR.

Use Leg Sweep after Disembowel to get it off cooldown faster and bump PS/Jump one slot right. Rest is fine, although with the faster animations in 2.1, you can get 2 buffs off between some GCDs sometimes. Don't try too hard though.

Also, after this partial rotation, you're supposed to wait for all buffs to cooldown, and then restart it again right? As in, don't start up Internal Release even though Blood for Blood is still on cooldown just to maximize dps?

No. Never hold your buffs to try and sync them unless you only need to hold them like ... a few seconds. Only hold buffs for fight-centric mechanics (Titan Heart, Twintania Conflag or Snake debuff). Do not hold buffs "just to sync". Synchronizing them is good, but not worth holding the buffs for any meaningful stretch of time.

Lastly, what exactly is clipping? In my interpretation, it's for example, Chaos Thrust is at 4 seconds left and then you hit the IDC combo so Chaos thrust is refreshed even though CT is already at 4 seconds? How does this lower dps?

Because you didn't need to refresh the CT so soon. You've "wasted" 4 seconds of the CT debuff due to unnecessary overlap.

[AugustusSB]

Fracture I guess, but my poor tp

Yeah, I add fracture if i have to wait in between combos, ie. stupid EX Garuda turning around to throw a friction at the raid right before an IDC combo

[Sylari]

How worthwhile do you guys think an Obelisk would be? And what would you slot into it?

[Pavise]

How worthwhile do you guys think an Obelisk would be? And what would you slot into it?

I'd say don't bother with it, a GC weapon is more then enough to take you through to relic especially if you know how to move on titan, but be warned you'll probably kill yourself a few times by jumping at the wrong moment.