How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Gripen]

Lots of thoughts!

I really value the ability to NOT re-meld my gear going from pre-A8S to BiS, so I focused my pre-A8S set on this exact concept. Before I started building a set to use with the Anima coming next week, this is what I would have been building toward:
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/UA9Y

That said - I know that set is sub-optimal. I'm building toward this, currently, only obviously sub the Anima in where the Midan spear is:
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/UA9X

Note that both of those sets have THREE Vitality V melds on them - this bumps your max health to 20620 as a Xaela with Flint Caviar, 20743 with Pipira Pira. You can stand to drop one of those melds, but absolutely not all three. 19800 with Pipira is nice, but not for progression. That extra ~1000 health could make or break you surviving a mechanic.


That said, my best in slot is pretty much identical to that, with just the singular change of swapping out the chest piece and turning the VIT melds into actual melds:
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/UA9Z


Your BiS looks pretty good, though! It's a bit lower weight than mine (by ~2.5 effective strength), but it should work just fine, if you prefer running ~600 sks.

Yeah your Anima set feels like the way to go but unfortunately it's not going to be an option for me due to lack of time and my very personal opinion that the relic grind is just an insult to humanity but that's a completely different topic

Melding Vit felt really awful but it has been a life saver on numerous occasions so very much worth it in my opinion.

I was thinking of going for that "low sks" BiS set but in the end I enjoy being 600+ so I guess I'll stick to that.

[natyusha]

Don't forget about my favorite set: http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/U5BI with about 1~ strength less and dirt cheap grilled sweetfish for food

The Above set is great for me since it shares right side melds and gear with the Monk BiS.

[natyusha]

Never understood the whole required skillspeed thing. Extra skillspeed is just wasted stats imo

[SunnyHirose]

I'll say it again: that whole business is bogus. You need a much lower SS to get the purported benefit in an actual raid (i.e. with Selene).

[Arienal]

And now we have yet ANOTHER patch with absolutely NO attempts to deliver any of the fixes they promised us two patches ago..Drg, the class this whole expansion was supposed to be about, remains the most heavily fucked over one. Every single other class has been adjusted and/or buffed over the last few patches, EXCEPT us, and they screwed us over worse than anyone else with this 'fight against yourself' bullshit. I havent fought a single enemy since 56, the only thing I have ever fought is my own damn abilities.

[MiniTyra]

There's a lot more to Dervys oCD placement than just the opener.

The BFBs and IRs are all "slotted" into their highest PPS placements which benefit oCDs in the opener and further in the rotation. That's the main reason for the swap.

[CookieMonsta]

oh i forgot to edit it in

edit: actually i shouldn't do this kind of thing when im half asleep oh god im going over it and noticing a lot of dumb things

Part of the reason is it was intentional to skip the Phleb immediately before the 2nd BFB. I think the intention was to delay the 2nd BFB to slightly after TT so it catches double Geirskoguls and a jump while still getting a Phleb on the last second.

[Aquaslash]

If I'm reading this correctly, we're gonna be able to have 120 crit, 115 det, and a tiny bit of accuracy/SS depending on need. How's everyone feeling about this?
That trade of SS for Det seems to put it ahead of the lore weapon at the very least

[ColdestHeaven]

I'd avoid putting stat points in acc/ss on the relic actually and dump everything on det/crit. This way you adjust melds/gear while still getting full scaling benefits (in future iterations of the relic I mean) on those two stats; if I remember correctly, splitting stat points in more than 2 stats led to a very small loss of points (like 1 or 2 less than a pure det/crit). Not sure how/if this would translate in a much larger pool of stats implemented on the weapon.

[SunnyHirose]

I wouldn't intentionally put much if any accuracy on it, if only because other weapons won't come stock with any (the whole point being that it could get difficult to swap out weapons in ARR without having side/downgrades for other slots).