Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[spelley]

For those wanting to figure out BiS and considering crafted gear, here is a bit of useful info I got on Reddit today. I am unable to verify, but I'll leave it here anyway:

Anyway, here are the materia caps (Str and Vit come capped):
Wolfram Mask/Gauntlets/Sabatons: +21 Acc, Crit, Spd, +15 Det
Wolfram Tassets: +16 Acc, Crit, Spd, +12 Det
Wolfram Cuirass/Saurian Trousers: +34 Acc, Crit, Spd, +24 Det

[HulveinBlitz]

Thanks for that piece Learn something new every day.

I'm tempted to purchase a HQ Wolfram Mask. Shame they're 1.1m on my server atm. You don't need someone with 390 control or w/e to Meld onto it do you?

Nope, you don't. Any 50 ARM will do.

I splashed out on the mats for em instead. Worked out cheaper.

[ColdestHeaven]

So, Astrum Hose seems to be one of the best pieces to buy with soldiery. The thing is, my Allagan trousers used to give me a huge boost on accuracy - which is the reason I'm still reluctant to take them. I've already bought Gloam ring, Astrum boots (both of them give slightly more accuracy and are an overall stat weight increase I guess?) and gauntlets. I never found the Allagan mask of Maiming (*sigh*), so my Wyrm's helmet still contributes for accuracy, but I was planning on farming T4 anyway. Not sure how that would combine with Astrum Hose, though, since I'd lose even more accuracy.

Maybe I could fix this with accessories, but I'm not sure if this would result in a noticeable weight loss or whatever. I think I can currently reach over 530 accuracy with all my accuracy accessories stacked (I actually don't have the Allagan ring of striking yet, should I give this a thought?), so maybe even in case I got both the Allagan mask and the Astrum hose I should be capping accuracy. Would this be a good solution?

Consider that I'm still clearing T5, so no access to Second Coil gear yet, although this might or might not change in the next few days. I still plan to cap accuracy for both the coils, at least pre-T9, so that I would be prepared for after Twintania.

[PArcher]

You don't need more than 470 acc (realistically, 460) for Coil 1 and Levi/Moogle EX, so you can lose a lot of Acc and be good.

[JetBrooks]

I'm still on T5 (have been waiting on static but I'm getting tired of it so I may just start pugging T5), so I can give some advice for pre-Coil 2 dudes. When gearing for different accuracy levels, I pretty much never take off my myth Body, belt, wrists, and neck. Make sure you have those, and farm the hell out of T1-4 and get pretty much everything possible, there's no reason not to now that it's unlocked. Apart from the body, these myth pieces are not that exceptional, I just happen to rarely swap them out due to how they fit into my accuracy builds. Body is incredible though, I'd say it should be your first myth choice at this point, after that, I'd say helm since it gives you a bunch of accuracy that will help with certain accuracy builds. Extreme primal accessories can be good too, so hopefully you can grab those.

Now when buying soldiery items, I just mix and match my alternate gear to get the appropriate accuracy level (you should be using different gear for different fights, or you're throwing away potential DPS) while having as much determination and crit as possible.

I plan to have soldiery pants, ring, gloves, and boots by the time I'm in Coil 2, with enough gear adaptability to get me up to T9 with the proper accuracy and decent dps weight. However, if you think you'll be able to get your liberator soon, that should be your priority for saving soldiery tomes. My friends are just being goddamn casual goofballs and we haven't made progress in forever, sigh. It really sucks having half a static that is farming all extremes in pug groups, and a few still suck on Titan, lol. No matter how many times I make fun of them, they don't practice (and you can only carry so many people in Extreme fights).

[Thorauku]

I'd advice to get the moogle EX choker though. The stats. of it is pretty nice as well.

[JetBrooks]

Ah shit I keep forgetting that. Yeah definitely. I haven't bothered with Moogle Mog since I'm still killing Levi multiple times every day waiting on my damn spear. Goddamn RNG.

[Butcherboy]

Right now I have 425 SS With my set up, so I'm glad I didn't go for the weathered mail. Once I start my liberator I think it'll go up again.

[Andyman]

With the increase in skill speed, will that have an impact at all on our current rotation? Or will it remain the same and basically chaos thrust gets clipped a bit earlier?

[Dervy]

Only time our rotation will change, will be once we're hitting 2.21 GDC without selene (648 SS). At 2.21 GDC, we can also then fit in another skill (Fracture maybe?) in the same frame as the Heavy Thrust buff. Up until that point, I feel we'll keep the same rotation, but it'll give us more room for mistakes, or to move around AOE's etc.