BRD DPS (And how to improve mine!)

[arctic]

Good guess but no. Pic is from June. Was probably i105-106 at the time. Still only i108 w/ Rosenbogen (and way below acc cap for t8-9 without food and/or downgrading gear). That said, I've since switched to SMN main because we had no caster for a while. :P

All right, well I haven't had much luck with Coil drops. All my gear is upgraded weathered. I really hate it but it's all for the DEX. So I'm sitting at i109. We don't have a dragoon in our party and I take a moment to pop foes every time the dreadnought spawns, I usually don't have to do ballad. That said I average on turn 8 around 310 DPS. If we had a dragoon and I had the 10% damage buff the whole time that'd land me at 341 DPS. I'm really trying to crack this 400 dps code.


As I've previously stated my opening rotation is:

Straight Shot, Bloodletter (off gcd), Raging Strikes (off gcd), Hawks Eye, Internal Release (off gcd), Windbite, Blood for Blood (off gcd), Venomous Bite, Barrage (off gcd), Blunt Arrow (off gcd), Heavy Shot, Flaming Arrow (off gcd) Heavy Shot, Repelling Shot (off gcd)" - opener

At this point, straight shot should be about to fall off, reapply it, reapply dots after. Use any buffs as soon as they come up (off the gcd of course). The ONLY exception, is to delay barrage to be used with Raging Strikes. Barrage is pretty useless by itself.

If done correctly, your dots will be falling off right as you use internal release every time.

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I haven't had too many people fault this rotation, and later today I'll toss out some numbers. If anyone would be interested in trying out this OPENING rotation and comparing it to their own, or have feed back on how to optimize it further I'd appreciate it.

Again, I'd really appreciate some pointers or suggestions.

[ChriZirhC]

I need tips too. I'm very frustrated with my DPS no matter how much I change my rotations and when I pop cooldowns. Done both with macros and manual. Manual provide slight increase. Basically I'm averaging dummy at 330 w/ no food and pots and this is until I've used up all TP. Here is my gear setup now. http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/NFV3

[Ooshima]

Good guess but no. Pic is from June. Was probably i105-106 at the time. Still only i108 w/ Rosenbogen (and way below acc cap for t8-9 without food and/or downgrading gear). That said, I've since switched to SMN main because we had no caster for a while. :P

Well that's because you've switched

I recalled you cleared T8 ahead of my grp and back then I noted you are close to full set so I thought you'd be full BiS already

I need tips too. I'm very frustrated with my DPS no matter how much I change my rotations and when I pop cooldowns. Done both with macros and manual. Manual provide slight increase. Basically I'm averaging dummy at 330 w/ no food and pots and this is until I've used up all TP. Here is my gear setup now. http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/NFV3

No way anyone could tell without watching what you do though. You might need to record a video of your parse. i104 with i110 weapon drawing 330 without food is seriously on the low side.

[ChriZirhC]

i104 with i110 weapon drawing 330 without food is seriously on the low side.

I know which is why I'm so frustrated >_<. We're from the same server, is it alright if I send you a /tell later? I really need someone to tell me what I'm doing wrong at least :s

[Ooshima]

I know which is why I'm so frustrated >_<. We're from the same server, is it alright if I send you a /tell later? I really need someone to tell me what I'm doing wrong at least :s

Sure, I'm usually online in the evenings till night, or you can drop by LVN's house (Mist 1 Plot 6, right in front of the Mist Square's MB and ferry area) to see if I'm around there (usually hanging around FC house if not inside instance).

[TlocCPU]

I'm pulling 400+ DPS also with ilvl 110 bow.

[Eissels]

I really appreciate all the feedback from everyone (Though, as I can tell, I don't really know WHAT I'm doing so wrong), but, now that I'm back to the forums, I have to ask a totally off topic question.

... what coat is this? I must have it. :U

[JustaBard]

I hit 418-425 in T8 with HA bow and a DRG in our party. That's with my level 90 legs tho. I'd think 430 is possible.

[damofitz]

On a slightly related topic, but not one in need of its own thread, I've just started leveling an archer as my first Dow alt and first DPS role to actually use after just tankng and leveling other classes for cross skills for my war. I started placing my bonus stats in str automatically without giving it much thought, assuming this would be the right thing to do for DSP.

I'm still on early levels but realised I should have been putting my stats on Dex. Its only 4 extra on str so far, but are these being completely wasted? Should I spend the seals to reset or wait until end game as I don't want to be a strain on my team with lower damage now I've started reaching the level requirements to run dungeons, but for 4 points, I don't know how noticeable it will be. How have you guys used stats while leveling?

[Tua]

I started placing my bonus stats in str automatically without giving it much thought, assuming this would be the right thing to do for DSP.

I'm still on early levels but realised I should have been putting my stats on Dex. Its only 4 extra on str so far, but are these being completely wasted?

4 points is about as much as a racial bonus - not noticeable for a long time but it's there and does your bard no good at all, so you should reset it by 50 and put everything into DEX.