How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[whiskeybravo]

Hell yea, grats Jack! Yea it's been like 2-3 months since I went into A3 so memory is a little fuzzy. My attempt at an example of why the rotation may have been altered a bit lol

[JackFross]

Hell yea, grats Jack! Yea it's been like 2-3 months since I went into A3 so memory is a little fuzzy. My attempt at an example of why the rotation may have been altered a bit lol

Yeah, I finally got my A3 kill with the new static I joined on Monday. I ranked second on my server (off by 10 dps with me forgetting food and not using pots RIP) and in the 86th percentile overall. Felt good for a first kill! I should finally actually be on the leaderboards with a 1-jump A1 and a not-driver A2 this week, as well~ I'm super excited.

And @Zeviand - exactly why I say it's personal preference. The difference is 1 gcd in the long run - it will almost literally never impact how things go. Especially in a fight like A3 - If you're keen on clearing, you hold SSD through add phase, generally, which causes its CD spin to be totally reset when final phase starts. From there, I tend to hold it a bit for magnets when it comes off-cd (not always, but when it comes back just before magnets, I'll hold it the extra 10s or so, just in case). I usually hold DFD for the very first set of magnets, use SSD once when it's back (I use it on the final add set of adds phase) and then hold it for the next magnets, if I'm remembering timings right. My final phase is still a bit sloppy with gsk and other cds, since I pay more attention to mechanics than my botd timer at current.


Oh, another way to look at it:

Jump is 260 or 390 potency - 338 average
DFD is 240 potency
SSD is 221 potency

Generally, you wanna get your highest potency attacks on CD faster so you get more of them in the long run. If, at the very end of the fight, you'll either get +1 DFD OR +1 SSD, getting that DFD is higher net potency gain. Situations where that happens are slim to none, as would be the case of the middle SSD pop, when DFD is halfway done refilling. Happens so rare that one gcd is gonna make or break whether or not you get the extra shot in.

Which is why I say personal preference. :P