Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[JetBrooks]

Getting gloves is a pointless upgrade as well. Yes, it's a great item due to it's CRT + DET, but as the Dragoon gloves drop from T6, purchasing the Astrum Gauntlets doesn't allow you to efficiently use your soldieries.

Eh, that's kinda like saying you shouldn't have gotten Myth Chest in 2.1 coz Allagan drops in T1, if they're gonna be the best thing to use, screw it.

Related note: I got gloves coz I wanna hit stuff hard while I'm waiting for my static to progress, dang it! Prolly do legs next.. my static is still on T5 and I have enough alternate i90 gear to make up for accuracy loss while equipping highly weighted i100 gear.

[Dervy]

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High Allagan Gauntlets > Weathered Astrum Armguards for set optimisation, that's why. Once your group has actually got the Turn 7 kill, then maybe you can consider getting the Weathered Astrum Armguards, as you can upgrade it to i110. At which point, Astrum Armguards > High Allagan Gauntlets for set optimisation.

You can't really compare 2.0 to 2.2 progression, as the Allagan Cuirass and the Wyrms mail were the same ilvl. Right now in 2.2, High Allagan will always be better than the items we can currently purchase, which is why it is best to prioritise the High Allagan Drops from Turn 6 first.

EDIT: It's different, particularly for you however as your static is still on Turn 5.

[EasymodeX]

The good thing about the Astrum Boots, is that all accuracies from 480-521, excluding 500, has them as the BiS set.

And 470. I'd like to see more confirmation of T7-9 before I accept that it's different in scaling from T1-5 (which had none).

The Astrum Hose on the other hand, despite it being the best item to purchase for set optimisation, it's not in any set requiring 484, 497, 500, 503, 506, 509, 512, 516, 519 accuracies (from 480-521).

Oh, interesting. I forgot I put a -10% malus against SS's weight because I don't like it and I run out of TP enough as it is. That is apparently enough to shift leggings away from BiS for a number of acc points (I use 470, 481, 493, 504).


Regardless, the crux of this discussion is that the acc requirements are uncertain. The easiest way to determine that will be tank and BLM acc thresholds. Mages have no variance between flanks/rear/front, and tanks have little to no variation, particularly since they're testing the max acc condition.

Hence, the basic recommendation to stockpile for a few weeks until things become clearer.


Anyways, the other component which is a significant factor is your personal expectations of your access to later turns. If you expect access to various slots in a reasonable timeframe, then some people are willing to over-purchase in the near-term even at risk of replacing it with an H-A drop. Shrug.