How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[PheonixCain]

I would like to add that you also should never be losing Blood of the Dragon in either A3S or A4S until you flub your rotation quite severely (or get horribly screwed during adds phase A3S). It's not necessarily easy to maintain it through Quarantine (since you do need to do a few wonky things to do so, and you need to always assume you'll get every one of them)

I have run into situation that got in quarantine > war and me hammer that add > add died before i cud even landed the 4th hit on it to extend BOTD > long animation being send back to the arena > walked all the way up to the boss > lost BOTD or only had few secs left and combo faded away so i had to use GK and give up that BOTD

[whiskeybravo]

I have run into situation that got in quarantine > war and me hammer that add > add died before i cud even landed the 4th hit on it to extend BOTD > long animation being send back to the arena > walked all the way up to the boss > lost BOTD or only had few secs left and combo faded away so i had to use GK and give up that BOTD

Should've saved SSD

The only times I've lost BotD in quarantine was the 2x GK under B4B before I got sent in. Seemed like most of the other times there was enough time to either connect with the add or get back and connect with the boss t finish the combo. Results vary of course.. And I haven't spent months in that fight like a lot of people, only a few dozen pulls or so, small sample size I guess.

Any ideas on a good couple week gearing path yet? I honestly haven't had time to look at any of the gear yet

[JackFross]

i had to use GK and give up that BOTD

The only Quarantine where this could potentially be an issue is #2, for which you should have Elusive Jump ready and a combo proc'd and ready to use on the nearest leg you can elusive toward. O: 1 and 3 spit you out pretty close to Mortal Revolution (3 also has the Elusive Jump clause - and in all my runs I have never been picked for BOTH 2 and 3 - and I've never seen a dps get picked for both of those two - it's either 1, 2, 3, 1-2, or 1-3, in my experience).


And I've been mucking around a bit with gearsets and can't settle on one set I particularly love.

The only thing that is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY in my opinion - every single Dragoon must absolutely without a doubt invest in the 220 crafted chest. Unless your group is gonna down A8S sometime soon, which seems quite unlikely, you'll definitely want it. It's more flexible than the acc/sks 230-240 and is marginally worse than the 240 Lore chest, both fully melded.


AAAAAND. Until we see an A7S clear that *fingers crossed* drops a Gobdip, we need to be operating under the assumption that it's gonna be 220 from Sephirot -> 230 from (A6S please?) 7 weeks -> 240/245 from A8S, which, while super shitty, means that dps check is a LOT tighter, since we can't have 240 weapons going into it. We're stuck with 230 at best. That's a pretty substantial difference in terms of dps capacity.