Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[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.

[Warrlordd]

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

Also because if you wipe a buffed up CT or Phleb (used w/ BfB and/or IR up) you will lose that 4 seconds of dots.