How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[JackFross]

Nice!

Also, I did some really obnoxious math in that thread here, so you can grab some of that to use in your spreadsheet if you wanna, whiskey. Maybe check it first, though, it might not be *completely* accurate. And I did forget to include HT>RoT>IDC4>IDC4 as a viable rotation - I think it'd be higher pps than the HT>IDC4>IDC4 one, but with higher TP expenses.


As far as the post about geirskoguls, I don't believe it's an alternative. As it stands currently, you re-cast BotD during combo 6, yeah, but if you hit gsk during combo 5, you miss your 4th hit and BotD comes back after the following FT, causing you to be delayed. It's important to note hat you'll have exactly 5 shots of 4th hits between casts of Blood without delaying the cooldown. Altogether, that's 15+5x15 = 15+75 = 90 seconds of time you can spend in BotD. If you hit 3 geirskoguls, you spent 30s, so it's just 60s that you get to play with. Your rotation between BotD casts is:

H>ID*C4>P>TTT4>H>IDC4>P>TTT4>H>IDC4>P>TT*T4

With the * being the general placement. You can shift the * before D at the start, but you'll always use the * at the same time at the end. If we count up those gcds, it's 25. Assuming a 2.4s gcd, we're spending 25*2.4s = 60s between casts of BotD. We have 60s to spend. If you burn out an extra 10s you literally will not have the time to shoot another one, because you'll be losing an additional 15s off your 60s allotted (since you have to use it at a certain point) and you need a buffer of at least 20s to be able to get two casts of Geirskogul without running out of Blood time. You never run into this situation. Counting by # of combo, your Blood times (with a 2.4 gcd, popping BotD after D to start) are something like:

1 - 27
2 - 20
3 - 23
4 - 26 (or 15)
5 - 18

You never have over 20s except after 3 or 4. At this point, you've only used 1 and would lose Blood rather early if you burned it out from here. Unless I'm misreading what you're suggesting, it seems like it wouldn't make any difference at all, especially considering we already get 2 gsk under every B4B aside from the one used in the opener.