Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[pompey_dan]

The gun class could be piercing also, hopefully at least one of them is lol

[whiskeybravo]

The gun class could be piercing also, hopefully at least one of them is lol

Yea guns are usually piercing. What would be sweet is if you could equip different types of ammo for different damage type. Could just equip as a secondary like a shield, then change to blunt/piercing/elemental/etc by switching ammo. Will be interesting to see what they do.

Back on the topic of dragoon, I finally got to run T5 on dragoon last night. I've been tanking it but one of the guys we've been running with wanted to try solo tanking so I switched between smn and drg. Which leads me to ask - what is the best way for melee to handle the DKs? From what I've read they are supposed to run away as the DK drops down (in case they get stunned), then maintain DoTs on Twin while burning DKs.. It doesn't seem like there is enough time to do much to Twin between profusion and first DK, should drg just HT-Phleb on Twin > Run > IDC-Phleb the DK? Any suggestions are appreciated

[PArcher]

Back on the topic of dragoon, I finally got to run T5 on dragoon last night. I've been tanking it but one of the guys we've been running with wanted to try solo tanking so I switched between smn and drg. Which leads me to ask - what is the best way for melee to handle the DKs? From what I've read they are supposed to run away as the DK drops down (in case they get stunned), then maintain DoTs on Twin while burning DKs.. It doesn't seem like there is enough time to do much to Twin between profusion and first DK, should drg just HT-Phleb on Twin > Run > IDC-Phleb the DK? Any suggestions are appreciated

Since you were solo-tanking, what was the group comp? When I join a solo-tank party, there's always just 1 melee (usually me, if not its because I'm healing), and I just sit at #2 in aggro and don't worry about Dreads (then become the Hatch eater...my poor DPS ). If you two-tank it, you have to run away whenever the Dreads pop.

I try to get at least HT, Phlem and ID on Twin before the Dread pops that first time (solo-tanking, two-tanking I'm not near Twin until after the Dread gets a target for safety, so its start from scratch there), then Dis, CT, TTT the Dread and it *should* be dead by then. Do not stun it unless its your job to do so.

[whiskeybravo]

Since you were solo-tanking, what was the group comp? When I join a solo-tank party, there's always just 1 melee (usually me, if not its because I'm healing), and I just sit at #2 in aggro and don't worry about Dreads (then become the Hatch eater...my poor DPS ). If you two-tank it, you have to run away whenever the Dreads pop.

I try to get at least HT, Phlem and ID on Twin before the Dread pops that first time (solo-tanking, two-tanking I'm not near Twin until after the Dread gets a target for safety, so its start from scratch there), then Dis, CT, TTT the Dread and it *should* be dead by then. Do not stun it unless its your job to do so.

Well I ran a couple times on SMN and a couple times on DRG. Party comp was PLD, SCH, WHM, BRD, BLM, DRG, SMN, then me either on SMN or DRG. We only got to DKs while I was on SMN, so I didn't get to mess with them on DRG. Yea I was #2 for most of the fight - but DKs don't target #2 either? I thought that was mainly for conflag/fireballs. Good to know!

Thanks for the tips. I don't know how many chances I'll get to run on DRG but I mainly wanted to know so I can help our regular dragoon (and because I just like to know everything possible )