How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Leananshee]

That's the same problem i have with jump...annoying that the main/basic jump isn't as 'flexible' to use as the other two x.X Been caught out a couple of times in A1S because of it and also means i lose some time if i get the side based 4th rather than behind...Need to try to be better though i suppose lol

[Arson_king]

So how are you guys optimizing A2S dps? My group got to enrage last night 12% left on the Gob Widow. I cant parse myself because I play on ps4. I think for sure there is room for improvement on the Correct GK usage. Does anyone do AoE? (how great would it be if Belt, hands, or feet were to drop for me lol )

When it comes to gear I lucked out I have all right side Accessories for A1S. Then I have my ilvl 200 spear and Body. I will have enough to buy pants but I am not 100% sure. I still use Ilvl 180 ring and Hands because a lack of skill speed.

[whiskeybravo]

I noticed the same thing with content filters classifying Ariyala as "Adult/Mature". Luckily I control the content filtering so it's not an issue for me, but I will say that the solver on Ariyala is completely trash now at least for monk since 3.0 when changing the weights. I've had to hand calculate a lot of things since the sets Ariyala was giving me were completely wrong when you do the math. I haven't updated the old spreadsheet I stole from Dervy and modified for monk gear.

Anyway, that's your best bet. Use a spreadsheet as it is more accurate and more flexible. I'd see if Dervy has a new one he's willing to share with you guys or you can make your own.

Thanks, Ricdeau. I don't use the site for the solver, though, just comparing gear sets and planning my upgrade path. I know xivdb has the wardrobe feature but it doesn't work as well as ariyala. Shucks

So how are you guys optimizing A2S dps? My group got to enrage last night 12% left on the Gob Widow. I cant parse myself because I play on ps4. I think for sure there is room for improvement on the Correct GK usage. Does anyone do AoE? (how great would it be if Belt, hands, or feet were to drop for me lol )

When it comes to gear I lucked out I have all right side Accessories for A1S. Then I have my ilvl 200 spear and Body. I will have enough to buy pants but I am not 100% sure. I still use Ilvl 180 ring and Hands because a lack of skill speed.

That's really nice, I got ring last night for my first a1s drop, I don't really like what it did to my skill speed tho >.<

I switched to walker from last week, but from the exp I had before there really isn't a way to sustain any AoE. I just focused on burning down ST while smn and sch baned and brd did his thing. One thing I've been playing around with for aoe is skipping phleb to do an extra GK when mobs hp is getting low, you can get away with 18-19 sec instead of waiting for 22-23.

L1 and up or down to select bomb from enemy list. I'm on PS4 and I've doing well with it. The 8th phase sucks cause there are more mobs so bomb won't show up on enmity list. I tell group to stack all together on a spot to minimize drops in the crowd. Worse comes to worse whm fluid aura can knock it out during that phase.

This is an older post about using the walker on ps4.. my solution was to disable target filtering for everything but enemies. I still use the L1 cycling but disabling everything really helped for just scrolling left-right (which is what I'm used to). Note that I left the option to interact with objects (the walker in this case) under my "when weapon is drawn". So sheathed selects only enemies, drawn selects enemies + interactive objects. Working pretty good. And another tip for anyone else, disable L1 auto-run.. It's pretty lame when you're moving away from the bomb, trying to cycle enemies, only to have your walker turn around and start walking back towards the bomb because auto-run was on .____.

[RachaelMarie22]

Currently trying to optimise my dps in a3s..just wondering how you guys deal with adds in tornado phase, idc4 combo vs ttt4 combo?

[Dervy]

TTT4 for mini ones

ID -> TTT4 for big ones.

[Krypkins]

First phase just the standard rotation

In phase 2 make sure to ssd back after the first wash away and elusive after the 2nd one. If you learn the timings you can get all of your positionals even if you have to stack with the party. You can use lsw on cd, ir at the start of the phase, a jump+ps before the first wash away and ls+ft when you get back with ssd and they'll all be back up. Try and geirskogul both of the hands whenever possible like after the 2nd wash away if youre fast enough with elusive, bait the hands to clap, you should be able to get 2 off during hand of pain with b4b and one more on both before they turn into the tornado.

Tornado phase ttt4 for mini ones and id>ttt4 for big ones. If youre lucky you can get a geir off on 2 of them. Just follow the the rule of always be attacking.

Still trying to figure out optimal dps tricks for the final phase but just do your standard rotation and you should be good, just be careful with b4b so you dont get rekt by mechanics

[enil]

TTT4 for mini ones
ID -> TTT4 for big ones.

Is ID really worth it? You are losing your BoTD uptime, a potential 4th, downtime from not having adds to hit or tethers means losing BoTD/possible mutihit GK's is pretty high.

[Dervy]

Not really. You're never using CT or Phlebotomize and there are many times where you will be using HT, clipping it by 6s. Because of this, you're never going to be in a situation where you'll lose BoTD as long as you stick to using Geirskogul when A) You're above 21s B) your next combo is going to be a TTT4 and not an ID. You only need 10s from no GCDs (2.4*4 = 9.6), to get BotD back up. I've not lost BoTD so far during that phase.

There's only a total of 7 Pistons and ideally, 3 of them are generally yours. So there's only 3 times where you'll be doing ID-TTT4. Other then that, you're TTT4 100% of the way.

The amount of GKs you can use are severely butchered and are heavily reliant on the amount of Pistons or Gears your on (more pistons = more ID, thus less GKs), but ID -> TTT4 is definitely quicker to solo Pistons, than TTT4 spam.

Then, you can run into situations where TTT4 is better - Assume the tank or another player is also on your piston, and will die in 3 GCDs, then TTT4 will be best, as you can use "4th" on a Gear.

It's a tricky one this phase.

[Greyfrost]

So Dervy, basically you're saying that our short-timeframe burst combo is HT > ID > TTT4 ? And reapplying HT whenever necessary, of course.

And the shortest combo would be HT > TTT4?

[ErzaScarlet77]

is 4th combo always a dps increase or only if you hit the positional?
if geirskogul didnt exist, is it still a dps increase?