How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[QCrimson]

Yes, and that's precisely the point. High reward, high risk. It's fine the way it is, you're not supposed to be at 100% at all times.

[Tilgung]

Yes, and that's precisely the point. High reward, high risk. It's fine the way it is, you're not supposed to be at 100% at all times.

Nope. High risk, high reward is dancing with Earthshakers next to Bahamut to maintain as much up time as you can.

Wheeling Thrust proc on Ravana when the only damageable spot is on one of the flanks is RNG punishment.

[enil]

Nope. High risk, high reward is dancing with Earthshakers next to Bahamut to maintain as much up time as you can.

Wheeling Thrust proc on Ravana when the only damageable spot is on one of the flanks is RNG punishment.

Positionals have been in FFXIV since release. It's part of being melee, it's part of the game. If anything dragoons were more heavily punished for their positionals when HT and ID did not progress your combo if you did not get the positional.

Go play DPS warrior if you don't want to deal with positionals.

Let's say we do have forced phases where it's not possible to hit positionals, at what point is it worth to dump BoTD on GK and skip 4th combo (miss 1,2,3 4th combos depending on BoTD cooldown?), at what point is it worth to skip 4th combo but not dump it on GK and resume 4th combo on the next combo (assuming you have enough BoTD time).

[QCrimson]

Wheeling Thrust proc on Ravana when the only damageable spot is on one of the flanks is RNG punishment.

And you don't think that's what they were shooting for when they designed the seeing mechanic ? Yeah, sometimes you'll have trouble landing that 4th hit, so what ? It's not something you can't recover from dps-wise. Every class has to deal with something similar on Ravana.

EDIT: the positional fix happened because of fights like T11. The 4th hit positional requirements are far from being as punishing as HT/ID were back then.