How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Dervy]

if you'd only miss 1 tick of chaos thrust and have another DRG in the pt for some reason that keeps disembowel up, i imagine you can do TTT4 twice before IDC4 for a slight increase

can anyone confirm the math on that?

It's around 1 PPS more with another Dragoon and the GK/BotD rotation is a lot more complex. Instead of remembering "BOTD#1 = GK after CT, BOTD#2 = GK after FT" etc, it's all over the place. I'd rather wait and see what Alexander gear will look like, but at around 2.15 GCD, you can switch back to our old IDC/TTT rotation.

I've been keeping my eyes on this thread but there's one thing I don't understand. Why is a ~2.4 second GCD ideal for Dragoon?

1) There's a point where after 40s, BotD will fall off if you do not have 2.4 GCD... Unless you wanna skip a GK usage, which is an overall DPS decrease
2) It allows you to pop BotD instantly, weaving it in between a Vorpal Thrust and Full thrust, allowing you to pop an early GK, increasing your GK's per minute
3) Makes it so PH + HT never falls off.

Now I'm 60 and I've done some endgame-ish stuff, played around with the skills and how it works, I'm gonna do my write up on the rotation tomorrow and update the OP of the thread. I'm sure Aiurily and Thendiel can confirm that 2.4s is very ideal.

Math

This is why I like you Thendiel. You actually sit down and do the Math. I just throw numbers into my spreadsheet and it spits out stuff without checking a lot of things, lmao.

But it's good to know that both our models give us the same conclusion: H - IDC4 - P - TTT4 is best rotation until around 2.15 GCD.

Jesus. Do we have any other similarly-geared DPS classes to measure that against?

1.2k is what I predicted the second I found out about the i190 weapons and gear. The exact number was 1224 DPS without taking into consideration Crit Damage and DoTs Skillspeed buff.