Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[Krisom]

Hello, I got a question about building my Novus.

At the moment I've gotten 24Det and 31Crit. Would it be out of the question to add in 20Acc? As gil wise getting the IV materia to max out Det/Crit is out of the question.

Would that be alright or could I aim for slightly lower accuracy?

[whiskeybravo]

Hello, I got a question about building my Novus.

At the moment I've gotten 24Det and 31Crit. Would it be out of the question to add in 20Acc? As gil wise getting the IV materia to max out Det/Crit is out of the question.

Would that be alright or could I aim for slightly lower accuracy?

There isn't a massive difference even going 44 crit vs 44 acc. I'm going to do something similar myself.

[mero-ix]

I've never had issue with accuracy on dragoon and crit can make quite a significant difference in damage, but if you can't afford it I'd say skillspeed would be better than accuracy. I know a lot of people don't like ssp, but I have a ton of it and am quite fond of attacking so fast. :3

[zohawn]

wish we had a guide for end game gearing. like how to get the drachen stuff etc etc

[whiskeybravo]

I've never had issue with accuracy on dragoon and crit can make quite a significant difference in damage, but if you can't afford it I'd say skillspeed would be better than accuracy. I know a lot of people don't like ssp, but I have a ton of it and am quite fond of attacking so fast. :3

Yea, I just mean once you figure in a whole gear set, acc vs crit on weapon is only 3-4 points (stat weight) difference. Being able to sub HA boots for astrum, or astrum hands for HA to drop accuracy, etc. I went over this a while back, but the main advantage going with crit on novus is that none of the other weapons have acc, so most gear sets are already set up to accept no accuracy on weapon. You need more HA drops to make accuracy on weapon worth it, like the t9 chest xD

wish we had a guide for end game gearing. like how to get the drachen stuff etc etc

A lot of it just depends on luck from drops. The Drachen gear is from the DRG job quests, lv45 & 50. Wyrm gear is what you buy with mythology tomes, Astrum is bought with soldiery. The progression right now would be lv80 dungeon gear > first coil/ST/myth/soldiery until you get to item level 90 > more soldiery gear > Second coil.. You should be i90 minimum with i95 (turn 5, levi, animus, soldiery, etc) weapon to start turn 6.

Notable pieces for coil progression (off the top of my head): ST chest and pants, turn 4 helm and ring, turn 5 boots and wrist, Gloam ring and neck, Astrum armguards, ST belt.

[Krisom]

Yeah Skill Speed sounds nice, might dump a bit of gil into the Determination atleast. I guess I'm not going to miss much if I went 15/20 Skill Speed instead of 15/20 Accuracy.

Edit: And miss much was an unintentional pun.

[TheKingSlayer]

IMO I'd stay away from skill speed for a couple reasons. First it has diminishing returns, as it will drain TP faster (granted only an issue in longer fights and bards can TP song if needed.)

Second and more important reason is you need a ton of SS just to reduce your global cool down by even a fraction of a second! As an example increasing SS by 100 will only reduce your global cool down from 2.5 secs to 2.4 secs. All that extra SS still won't get you a extra skill in during BFB.

If you HAD to do stats on the novus other than det and crit, I'd go det and accuracy. Accuracy cap is going up with every patch, it will always be useful and give more flexibility with the rest of your gear.

[mero-ix]

Second and more important reason is you need a ton of SS just to reduce your global cool down by even a fraction of a second! As an example increasing SS by 100 will only reduce your global cool down from 2.5 secs to 2.4 secs. All that extra SS still won't get you a extra skill in during BFB.

My skillspeed is 492 and it's enough that I can now get in a second Phlebotomize right before B4B falls off. Never underestimate the power of button mashing!

[snowybell]

Quick question,

will the Astrum belt be better (has no det), vs a Wolfram belt with

Savage Aim 4 (+9 Crit)
Heaven's Eye 4 (+9 Accuracy)
Savage Aim 3 (+6 Crit)
Heaven's Eye 3 (+6 Accuracy)
Savage Might 2 (+3 Determination) DET II ?

I know there's a STR difference, but i'm just curious.
I've added both up, pentamelded tassets are about 22.xxx while astrum belt are 21.xxx.
Is it worth it? That one point of difference.

Really find that SS on the Astrum belt useless. I currently am using the Weathered Astrum Belt, but am contemplating if i should waste my sand on it, or pentameld the tassets.

Thanks.

[Noxotic]

So, I'm on T8 now and I was looking up some videos and found this:

T8 DRG PoV

Is this a decent guide to go by? I understand that mechanic assignment will always be different, but based on his numbers, he's doing something right? Around the 2:30-3:30 area, he's clipping his dots a bit and did TT->VT->Dis right after blowing up a mine, then did ID->Dis->CT->Phleb->HT->TT->VT->FT->Phleb->then clipped Phleb to reapply with BFB with the rotation reborn combo, is that always the preferred method if you go off track? Just find a moment, clip something with the buffed version and get back to the original combo? I'm just trying to find ways to get better dps on T8 now, cause my highest has been 370 while normally in the 350-360 range. Normally save DFD for Dread, and boss, but I feel like I could be doing something better @.@
Any advice is appreciated.