Quote Originally Posted by Spayd View Post
I do usual opener for first stasis, but i dont use Geirskogul and spineshatter dive. Right after full thrust, i elusive jump to my position, have the stasis happen, watch where the gravitational pops as I SpineShatter dive back right on boss. Allows you to maintain everything. Havent tried too much with Geirskoguling during the opener tho, maybe I could pop it and still be fine, ill try it out tonight.
Quote Originally Posted by SunnyHirose View Post
With the first Stasis, you should ideally be doing 3rd hit while you're running out, and use a gap-closer in for 4th afterwards (I think I have Fey Wind there? Getting to max melee range during that combo also helps). This may be difficult to do consistently, but I can't find a better way to keep BotD up; if I leave any sooner, my combo times out during Stasis. After that, I haven't found a consistent timing (maybe it's just my group situation or all my usual dirty tricks failing me or something). The fight is a bit of a bummer for DRG all around, methinks.

The way I have been doing things, Elusive comes off CD before the second stasis, and I use that one to come in since that's safer than going out at the last second with no chance to adjust.

Delay your BotD by 1 GCD (before Dis -> before CT), it buys you extra 2.whatever seconds to refresh your BotD and to hit that GK in the opener, it's ample time to hit your 4th when re-engaging Alexander.
If you're lucky enough to have an Arrow there you can even hit your 4th and still make it to your position with Elusive. You kind of want to save your DFD for the second stasis if you backflip the first one however.