Quote Originally Posted by xnonamex View Post
HT, DIS, CHAOS, PHENO, BFB, IR, LS, PS (did i forget any?) so that's 8 timers that need to be aligned to get the max out of the class.[...]So if you are saying that you can just try again, means that you are doing that and loosing that deeps and not even realizing it.
Basically, this is probably one of the worst parts about it. A monk's missed positional is exactly that - a missed positional, and an immediate short-term, minor potency loss. However, a Dragon's miss will delay an entire cycle. At the start of the fight, as Aana suggested, it's not that major - if you miss your first Heavy Thrust, well, go ahead and do it again - it's a very minor loss at that point. ]


However, once Dragoon is in its stride, it needs to maintain perfection of a rotation or else skills will fall off. Ever have a Heavy Thrust run out before using your Full Thrust / Blood for Blooded / Life Surged? It sucks, but unfortunately, you miscalculated the time you had left on Heavy Thrust because the boss had a jump (T9 dalamud) / you missed your heavy thrust 1-2 times (Boss is spinning like a top) / you had to dodge. This doesn't even touch on, as he said, DoT management.

The only real thing I found wierd is the mention of Blood for Blood. Is there really an optimal time to use it mid-rotation? I've never thought about it before, but of all the Dragoon GCD skills, you basically can run Blood for Blood up for 80% of them (At least with my cycle, I tend to.)... So as long as you don't pop it at a Heavy Thrust that's going to lead into an Impulse Drive, it should be up for all your other bread and butter skills.