Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[Sleigh]

It's not about all the experienced players on this thread. It's about the new ones, who often came here to seek some knowlege, and see so much importance beeing given to the EncDPS. Look at the last pages. We had pages of discussion only on random numbers until someone post real relevant data to be analysed, or even start to discuss about strategy.

Not to veer off of what you just said but that is something that bugs me about this sub-forum. Most discussion is about stat weights, rotations, and inter-class balance theorizing - virtually no discussion on optimizing individual encounters with specific rotations, positioning, and CD manipulation that veers from a dummy CD rotation. In fact, I've seen people ask for help with these things and get berated for not figuring it out for themselves, when that kind of stuff is worth 1,000X the real world results over the discussion of if DET is worth .25 or .26 stat weight or the like. That's not a knock against the theory crafters' intent but it's true, strategy > the stat weights in FFXIV, and I don't think that gets exposed even 1/4 as much as it should be. The good players will often hide their CD usage and specific tricks because they think it's mundane to post such basic information, or would rather hide it because they don't want to get copied.

I think the last few times people asked for DRG tips in FCoB in this topic, I gave my extremely basic tips, when there are players who post here pulling way better numbers than my DRG alt's numbers with 20X the amount of time in there, but no one ever bothers to correct me or give more meaningful or advanced tips. Again this isn't a knock at anyone in any way, but I feel like that's more of what a topic like this should be.

Sorry, just a small rant. Carry on.