How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[SunnyHirose]

I tried to find some gearsets manually, seeing as to how stat weights keep making it weird. After fixing a frankly embarrassing error in my model (crit buffs were being counted twice for auto-attacks, but only in one of the testbeds...), the best A4S BiS simulation I've gotten so far is the set Aiurily posted--http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/RL7Z (estimated average 1493 DPS). If you don't mind accuracy food, it's a good one.

But I do mind accuracy food, so, now that I'm not spending every evening trying to beat the fight, I'll try my hand at writing software to do a more exhaustive search....

Did you get any weapon upgrade/trident on A4S?

Nope. Since we're still looking at odd edge cases where either spear might be BiS, I was okay with holding off. We gave the gobdip to the monk (eso weapon: major crit, minor ss; alex weapon: major ss, minor det... so anyhoo, pretty clear which one's BiS).

I hold my GCD there to do it, and have been ending hand phase at around 1300 dps at i199, so meh?

Avoid holding GCDs just to get the Geirskogul in under a minute. GCDs contribute more than 10 times the potency of Geirskoguls. Better to just stretch it to 3 / 84 seconds than slow down the pain train.