Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[ColdestHeaven]

Thanks for the advice EMX, PArcher and whiskey =D I'll see if anything changes in the next runs. In the meantime I'm practising on dummies to get a feel of the rotation. GCD are fine, now I need to weave oGCD regularly. I still tunnel view a little and forget about them to keep track of the rotation.

At least the rotation itself seems now less complicated than what I had thought when I first saw this thread: minor skill - combo - minor skill - combo, where minor skill is either Phlebotomize or Heavy thrust (which one of them depends on which one is down/about to go down and change), and combo is either IDC (Chaos thrust is not up or about to go down) or TTT (Chaos thrust). The main difference from what I did before is that I often used Heavy thrust and Phlebotomize together and I clipped accidentally either of them and Chaos thrust. This rotation should minimize the chances of this happening, I guess.

[snowybell]

Per point, DTR destroys CRT. Keep in mind that every point of DTR takes up more gear budget than CRT however. For example, on a particular tier of item, the game may provide 11 DTR or 16 CRT. So you get more CRT for the same "slot" on an item compared to DTR.

This narrows the gap between DTR and CRT.

For example, each point is DTR is worth roughly ".323" to CRT's ".184". However, on a particular item you would get 11*.323 = 3.553 value from DTR versus 16*.184 = 2.944 value frmo CRT.

DTR is still better, since 3.553 > 2.944, but it's not by a gigantic amount.


That aside, you get the biggest crits with more DTR because then you have the highest base damage ^_^.

Hey thanks so much for the insight. Appreciate it.

[Zhi]

I rolled blm instead for for t4-5 but didn't have any misses on t1 and 2 at 466 acc

[Ihm]

Sorry for being a tad ignorant, how is the testing going for the directional accuracy requirements, and do they seem to apply to everything? Such as, it seemed (Prior to the directional accuracy revelations) that CT and Ex primals have lower accuracy requirements where as Coil turns had higher, is this still the case? And what are the current accuracy requirements or are they not fully worked out yet? I fished through the past 20 pages and wasn't really finding the answers to my questions.

[Zhi]

Sorry for being a tad ignorant, how is the testing going for the directional accuracy requirements, and do they seem to apply to everything? Such as, it seemed (Prior to the directional accuracy revelations) that CT and Ex primals have lower accuracy requirements where as Coil turns had higher, is this still the case? And what are the current accuracy requirements or are they not fully worked out yet? I fished through the past 20 pages and wasn't really finding the answers to my questions.

I think it's more or less confirmed and they're grabbing numbers

[Migosha]

Sorry for being a tad ignorant, how is the testing going for the directional accuracy requirements, and do they seem to apply to everything? Such as, it seemed (Prior to the directional accuracy revelations) that CT and Ex primals have lower accuracy requirements where as Coil turns had higher, is this still the case? And what are the current accuracy requirements or are they not fully worked out yet? I fished through the past 20 pages and wasn't really finding the answers to my questions.

Yes CT and Primals have much lower ACC requirments. Not sure if with 0 ACC on your equipment you would be able to get a miss on those places. Maybe if you were attacking from the front, but then you should ask yourself what you're doing at that place. Before the boss reminds you that he does have a cleave for that kind of circumstances

[EasymodeX]

Titan has a variety of spellcast animations where he is facing the group. In addition, gaols and egis are often attacked from the front.

[AugustusSB]

I took about 465 into Turns 1-4 for about a month, no misses.

I missed 1 doomspike hit on a clockwork bug the other day on T4 with 465 acc.

I have no proof but from experience it seems aoe moves like Doom Spike / Ring of Thorns / Dragonfire Dive have generally higher acc requirements. Though i've never seen dragonfire dive miss, maybe because its magical damage it follows a diff acc req.?

[Zhi]

I missed 1 doomspike hit on a clockwork bug the other day on T4 with 465 acc.

I have no proof but from experience it seems aoe moves like Doom Spike / Ring of Thorns / Dragonfire Dive have generally higher acc requirements. Though i've never seen dragonfire dive miss, maybe because its magical damage it follows a diff acc req.?

During phase 1 of turn 4 last week, my ring of thorns missed a spider twice, but I was in the middle with all the spiders facing me so idk about that

[Dervy]

I missed 1 doomspike hit on a clockwork bug the other day on T4 with 465 acc.

I have no proof but from experience it seems aoe moves like Doom Spike / Ring of Thorns / Dragonfire Dive have generally higher acc requirements. Though i've never seen dragonfire dive miss, maybe because its magical damage it follows a diff acc req.?

A spider could of been facing you, hence the miss