Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

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"I don't parse", but "my friend's brother's cousin" was in my group and told me outside of the game that my DPS on Titan EX is between 280-310. He also said that my DPS on Garuda EX was 250-280, and Ifrit at 300.

There is no meaningful disadvantage for melee on the extreme fights. The only arguable case is with Garuda re: WWs, and to be honest I don't even pay much attention to the mechanic. When I hop to the second add, I pop Keen Flurry and go to town. A 3.2k Wicked Wheel when I have 5k HP is not very relevant.

I mean, you're a non-BRD/SMN on a Titan fight. That's just the way it is.

Not sure what you're saying. Dragoons destroy Bards and Summoners on Titan. Well, DRGs beat virtually every class almost all the time on Titan. The only times a DRG may not "win" a Titan parse when they're competing with a Monk or BLM who are really good and can optimize the fight timing exceptionally well.

Bards and SMN can compete on Ifrit solely due to massive tab-dotting of nails. They do a decent job on Garuda because of tab-dotting adds as well as full uptime. In all 3 cases, a DRG should still match their DPS at worst. And in the case of Ifrit, the DRG should be tab-dotting as well (as long as the group's total DOT spam does not cause nail timing problems).