Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

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Hi guys!

Decided to pop here and ask a question from all of you handsome and gorgeous fellows. I have been playing DRG for a while now and main it in my static, and recently I decided to go next step with my dragoon trying to increase my DPS beyond what I am currently able to do.

Now while the normal rotation for DRGs is same always, the openers are quite different, especially the one that I found out recently (month of so back) in the Hwo to train your dragoon document. And that being quite enforced and widely accepted rotation I should of course change mine to match that one, but I ran into a wall with it. Mainly because the part where PS and BFB are used together between a single GCD. I have been trying left and right but it seems I can't time the skill fit in between without having them to clip into my next GCD, which in return seems to lower my burst a bit compared to my "old" rotation that I got from here when I first started playing long time ago. I do have about 127 - 150 ping depending time of the day (sometimes it might shoot up even higher but that's like really rare lag spike).

So any suggestions should I just follow the rotation in "How to train your Dragoon" and learn to be better with oGCDs, move the PS or BFB one step forward thus moving all the oGCDs one step forward in the rotation or do you think that my old rotation is still valid and doesn't cause any huge problems with cooldown usage?

"How to train your Dragoon" -rotation that I can't fully do wihtout clipping into the GCD while trying to active two oGCDs

HT -(Internal Release)-> ID -(Leg Sweep)-> Dis -(Power Surge + Blood for Blood)-> CT -(Jump)-> Phleb -(Dragonfire Dive)-> TT -(Spineshatter Dive)-> VT -(Life Surge)-> FT —> HT —> (continue rotation)

And here's the old rotation that I am using, (I do switch BFB and IR around time to time, usually I'd like to use it as second oGCD and start with BFB so I can more easily align it with PS for those jumps)

HT (Internal Release)->ID (Blood for Blood)->Dis (Power Surge)->CT (Jump)->Pleb (LegSweep)->TT (DFD)->VT (LS)->FT-(SSD)->HT -> (continue rotation)

Also am curious of how to use PPP and X-potion of strength most effectively in the rotation. X-potion I usually would use after BFB but before CT and then push all the other GCDs one slot forward (after attempting it few times I don't seem to be able to do it completely withing the GCD). PPP I'd normally use either before I start my rotation or after my opener when I have first open slot between two GCDs.

DPS-wise I don't have any numbers on me currently but with what I normally do I am the highest DPS in the group when we do FCoB (composition - NIN, DRG(me), BRD and BLM), we are average I'd say not the best around but we do quite fine have T10-T12 on farm and started progressing on T13 last week.

So if any of you generous, handsome and gorgeous fellows would be kind enough to give me some pointers where I should be moving towards I'd be one happy DRG! Gearwise I am going towards the non-crafted BiS and here's Ariyala of my current stuff http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/Q3T4. Shouldn't matter much but decided to pop this down here as well!