Quote Originally Posted by Kaiser-Ace View Post

There's the "Meta" but then there's being cheep. I see DRGs Crossing Feather Foot more than I see mercy stroke. (A few times vs NEVER) And while Fracture is not exactly meta it is usually feather foot or mantra it's swaped for. Mercy Stroke even on warrior is only a slight dammge boost on a near dead trash mob. I'm battling EX Primals, Raid Bosses, and am my FC's resident God Slayer since I'm the first to run any new content and usually the only one to clear it.

So Mercy Stroke bing a Dps Pat on the butt that can only be used below 20% makes it less than worthless
Pft, god slayer? Maybe with echo/unsynch, lol.

Here's why we don't use Fracture in our rotation:


1) There's no good way to work it into the rotation. Adding it in after Phleb will cause your Heavy Thrust to run off, losing potency on the reapplication of it before going back into your Chaos Thrust combo rotation.

2) It causes your DoT's to fall off. The only one it assists, slightly, is Chaos thrust, reducing the clip from roughly 8-9 seconds down to 3~. The only way to prevent htis lost uptime is to clip your own DPS, resulting in a loss.
3) It's a massive TP sink. You are dumping 80 TP on a DPS wash/loss. At best, your DPS is breaking even with a good Dragoon. At worst, you're annoying your bard 'cause he has to sing Paeoen for you sooner.
4) It delays the uptime on your Fang and Claw / Wheeling thrust. Losing out on that Geirskogul potency because you're constantly pushing back the buff by 3 seconds every time you re-up your Fracture.

The only possible reason I would EVER cross fracture, is if I knew that I had to break off the boss for a period of time and wanted to let something Tick and I couldn't get a strong hit in. I.E, if I had completed a Fang and Claw and was about to run away, and wanted to put up a Fracture, that might be a way to add a little DPS, 'cause it's a strong single-potency hit. But it's not good for the Dragoon rotation.

But hey, if that's not good enough for you, I'd be happy to go head-to-head with you. I won't even use Mercy Stroke to boost my DPS. I'll literally just not use fracture and have a friend who can tell us what our numbers are. But I doubt you'd listen to that, "Mister God-Slayer" (Oh god I can't even hold back giggling typing that.)