Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[dippindots326]

I have more questions! I recently parsed myself and got about 500 on my burst and doing my rotation with cooldowns I had about 427 on a striking dummy.

Are these good numbers at ilvl 99?

[Sessurea]

I have more questions! I recently parsed myself and got about 500 on my burst and doing my rotation with cooldowns I had about 427 on a striking dummy.

Are these good numbers at ilvl 99?

427 at i99? how long was this parse?

[EllPii]

One needs to take into account some factors:
Weapon
Time elapsed (3min?)
Food buffed?
Party buffed?
Potted?
Crit percentage? (averaged over several trials?)

If i recall correctly, with a Liberator, it should be somewhere around ~410.

[dippindots326]

It was with a liberator and the parse was about a minute, my opening rotation. (I suppose three minutes is the accepted amount of time for a parse?)

EDIT: at 3 minutes I had a 382. Am I doing something wrong?

I had no food or party or pots

and my crit rate is 410 right now, didn't have a chance to get a percentage.

How is my burst tho?

[EllPii]

Yes, 3 minutes on a dummy is standard. 1000TP should last you 2 minutes + 500TP invigourate @~400TP for another 1 minute.

I can't say for sure, but i vaguely remember that when i looked at my numbers over 3 minutes it was around ~410, but at iLvl104.
This might not be the case for you, since i vaguely remember my accessories all being i100+, and 1str=~1dps.
For Crit percentage, to the best of my knowledge it should be around 15-20% (from what the data tells you); anything higher is an outlier.
Your burst is fine, i would assume it would burst for even higher if you used x-pots.

[Warrlordd]

after 3 mins 410 sounds right, after that you should hover in and around 400 dps.

[Vodomir]

1str=~1dps.

I highly doubt this equation. If that's the case, Dragoons would be doing 550+ DPS just due to strength alone (not even accounting for weapon damage, determination or crit rating).

[dippindots326]

I wonder what I'm doing differently, because I only hit ~410 half the time. I suppose it could just be the crits lining up on those runs.

[EllPii]

I highly doubt this equation. If that's the case, Dragoons would be doing 550+ DPS just due to strength alone (not even accounting for weapon damage, determination or crit rating).

Actually no, you're probably right. I don't really do these calculations myself.
It's more like 2str = 1dps, after standardising everything to a value related to 1 str.
The end result is more realistic, Gear Weight /2.

[SolarMisae]

I am a happy dragoon, today I got my nexus! http://i.imgur.com/Au65OUf.gif

...not a fan of the glow, however. I will probably glamour liberator again soon...

Also, the sexy stats, for the curious: http://i.imgur.com/43YVJJN.png

While I'm thinking about it, I'd like to add I could use some gearing advice. Every week since we've started clearing it, T8 refuses to drop my visor, and it's starting to get to me. I currently, for accuracy reasons, still use the Wyrm's armet in my coil set. I've been avoiding the astrum helm like the plague and the 21 accuracy drop if I were to switch to the guardian's helm (which I don't even have as a loathe st) is very hard to make up elsewhere. Should I just bite the bullet and get the astrum one? I'm afraid of wasting soldiery should my T8 helm drop shortly after investing in a rather terrible piece. Any suggestions as to what I could do about this? Or possible or sets to make up accuracy loss if I were to use the guardian helm that doesn't sacrifice too many good stats? Also, please don't tell me fully melded wolfram, I already did that with my penta-melded belt, and am still quite broke from when I did my novus so that is not happening lol. I also truly don't want to farm st for the helm either but prefer that over wasting soldiery/spending a lot of gil for a placeholder.