Right... the other day I had a guy asking me why I didn't use this and that in my dragoon... my answer was: Because I'd rather sacrifice some DPS than land on my face every 5 secs. F*** all those "uber" rotations that give 0.00001% more dps. I'm not a min/max tard, I leave all that crap to the elitist crowd.
Get surges going + blood and after the jumps hit all the defense skills + hp recovery. If you're too busy trying to squeeze out that 0.00000000001% dmg instead of staying alive, you suck anyway. The time you spend dead takes away a lot more DPS than not getting out that stupid nano % of dmg.