How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Leananshee]

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Just wondering if you are taking into account what you can get from food to help counter the acc loss? There's a few you can use, even the old stuff to help if you're not in need of other stats which may add further difficulty to your choices

On the topic of gear, i'm aiming to get everything Est Drg related anyway - based on my group learning AS1 currently and we're in desperate need of a caster (btw anyone interested/know anyone looking for a team please feel free to direct them my way :P ) So getting further than that for the time being will be slow going at best. I'm just going to wing it on a weekly basis depending on progress, acc cap and ss cap :3 Maths and I just don't compute so i'm not too fussed about ratings - if i can do top deeps for my group and they're happy with me then its all good ^^b Shouldn't need to rely solely on others with the number crunching prowess.

That's not saying it isn't helpful mind Just my own thoughts on the subject. Don't worry too much if you're not maxing everything - be the best you can be that make the people you play with and yourself happy! You'll all get the content down in your own times

[Mibhas]

Can you tell me how much DPS you guys do on A1 Savage boss?

I got 978 on my clear with this; food was NQ Morel Salad and I popped two X-Pots (because I'm poor lel).

[SpecialKK]

Well, after hovering in the 900s on dummy, I was able to get to 1150-1200 by precasting battle litany. My sks is at 635iirc, but I noticed that 22 is very very tight to pop Geirskogul. Also noticed that double weaving delays me especially botd.

I'm thinking still low for i189 with no buffs, but at least better than the comically low numbers I was getting

[Neyka]

My static took our first stab at A1S last night. With 575 accuracy, I had 1 miss on Faust, most likely when the tank died and he turned to attack me. I don't think I missed at all from the flank.

Our best attempt got Faust down to 4% or so.

I was averaging around 1130 dps on Faust only, so I need to figure out how to step that up a bit. I did notice a few things however. I had previously been avoiding using double ogcd skills, but in a few situations it seems to make a big difference, so I need to get into the practice of using them more, especially with bfb and botd.

You really want to make sure that you're not casting botd at the start of the gcd cooldown time. After the second gk, you typically have less than 1 second left on your botd buff (and about 10-15 seconds left on cooldown) when it's time to refresh with FnC or WT. Casting your botd 1 or 1.5 seconds into the GCD cooldown is often the difference between keeping the buff up at that point, or having it fall off right as WT or FnC comes of gcd cooldown.

So basically, always try to either double cast IR with BOTD, or delay casting BOTD until halfway through the gcd cooldown.

[Dervy]

Never use GK on combo 3. Delay it until the next combo, which gives you 24s remaining.

I'm working on another GK write up soon.

[Vincent_Mateus]

I like to delay a Geirskogul and reapply BotD in between the 3rd and 4th combo to give me a free 28-29 seconds and a guaranteed 2 geirskoguls back to back

[Grieve]

So a quick question for the number crunchers out there but, if there are 2 DRGs in a party, would that affect the rotation at all for optimization? Like, could they work off each other's Disembowel debuff and improve their output at all or would it just be a wash?

[SunnyHirose]

That would be ~5% DPS lost. Chaos Thrust is just that good.

You should stagger Battle Litany, though.

[Shuri]

How much acc is needed for Savage? I'm at nearly 700 now at i190.

My friend has about that and does fine, so I guess it's enough.

[Greyfrost]

So a quick question for the number crunchers out there but, if there are 2 DRGs in a party, would that affect the rotation at all for optimization? Like, could they work off each other's Disembowel debuff and improve their output at all or would it just be a wash?

Hirose gave the number crunching above, but the logic is to just keep doing the rotation, Disembowel doesn't stack, but Chaos Thrust does, that's 250 potency from the rear, not counting the DoT potency.

I'd say it's a loss if you don't do the Chaos Thrust combo even when you have 2-3-4 DRG in the party.

But yesssss, don't use battle litany while the buff is still up, lol.