Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[Ayvar]

So much text...
Any plans for a video tutorial that explains this all?
Like the different scenarios, normal grinding, bossing etc etc

reading...so....hard

4+ Hours of Turn 5 until we downed it. Ran the entire time with 476 ACC with food. Merged all the pulls during that time.

Thanks for the parse, I think we've confirmed at least a 472 ceiling, hopefully we can get some people parsing with accuracy in the 460's to see how low it goes

In my opinion and from what I've seen running my script a bunch of times at different accuracy values. The 7-9 or so accuracy points you get from hq Deviled eggs outweighs the dps boost you get from Buttons in a Blanket.

We confirmed this a couple pages ago

Why would you use the Allagan Earrings of Striking (16 crit and 11 skill speed) over the Tremor Earrings of Striking (11 crit and 11 det) in the Pre T5 BIS list?

It's fine if you want to overvalue det. Just swap out items, such as the earrings, that favor skill speed over determination

[AugustusSB]

We confirmed this a couple pages ago

heh, sounds good man, i skipped over the last 10 or so pages because i've been away from here during the entire holiday break. on a side note the more and more I look at these BiS lists the more I think the diff is negligible as long as you don't go too far above accuracy cap with i90 gear and have your i95 spear.

I actually liked what you said about aiming for slightly below acc cap on gear stats and using the eggs to get to the cap for T5 while using buttons for everything else, been doing that myself for a bit now.

[Ayvar]

heh, sounds good man, i skipped over the last 10 or so pages because i've been away from here during the entire holiday break. on a side note the more and more I look at these BiS lists the more I think the diff is negligible as long as you don't go too far above accuracy cap with i90 gear and have your i95 spear.

You are certainly correct that the differences are very small, though some people do like to work out those small differences. The one factor that will have the largest effect on our dps will be figuring out the correct accuracy cap. Dropping accuracy has a much larger benefit than quibbling over a few points of crit/det/skill speed

[AugustusSB]

You are certainly correct that the differences are very small, though some people do like to work out those small differences. The one factor that will have the largest effect on our dps will be figuring out the correct accuracy cap. Dropping accuracy has a much larger benefit than quibbling over a few points of crit/det/skill speed

Yeah man, I am a min/maxer, which is why i wrote my script ^^ But what I really meant by that is I have a choice to choose "better looking" gear over BiS and not be that far off from BiS, made me really happy because I love the Wyrm set.

As per figuring out the correct accuracy cap, yes I wholeheartedly agree with you on this one, seems like it has the biggest effect on total "dps weight".

[Aramaki]

reading...so....hard

Winning personality right there...matter of fact I'm trying to grasp it all though some of the abbreviations I'm not familiar with (such as GCD).
Only started about a week ago, so forgive me if I wasn't born with a spear in my arm unlike some

Anyway a video tutorial would help new players, though the class doesn't seem to favor them.
Other than that I appreciate your effort...

[Sabeta]

Winning personality right there...matter of fact I'm trying to grasp it all though some of the abbreviations I'm not familiar with (such as GCD).
Only started about a week ago, so forgive me if I wasn't born with a spear in my arm unlike some

Anyway a video tutorial would help new players, though the class doesn't seem to favor them.
Other than that I appreciate your effort...

A video tutorial is very unlikely. It's not as though the game is hard to play. All of the information that one would need to learn is already written in the master post on P1, everything else is presently just end-game speculation. As for abbreviations:

GCD=Global Cooldown. Cooldown being the amount of time to recast an ability. GCD are abilities that share a cooldown, and in the case of almost every class, that is a 2.5 second timer in-between every ability. True Thrust and Vorpal Thrust are both on the global cooldown. This means that there is going to be 2.5 seconds between these abilities, almost every time. Some of your abilities; however, aren't on this shared cool-down. Blood for Blood, Leg
Sweep, and your jumps later on are all moves that don't share the Global Cooldown, and therefore you don't have to wait to use them. To get the most out of them, using them in-between your GCD abilities is most recommended.

[etl003]

Winning personality right there...matter of fact I'm trying to grasp it all though some of the abbreviations I'm not familiar with (such as GCD).
Only started about a week ago, so forgive me if I wasn't born with a spear in my arm unlike some

Anyway a video tutorial would help new players, though the class doesn't seem to favor them.
Other than that I appreciate your effort...

reading everything in this thread would be the most beneficial for a new player. i came and read everything when i learned of the thread and now my dps is in line with everyone else in my coil group. a video with all the relevant info would still be a relatively long video.