Please help a SAM lady out. Looking for high DPS Sam who know the job by heart.

[AmaSagahl]

@Gladius

I don't have one of a raid boss as of yet. I will tomorrow.
This was my best try O1S dummy recorded, with 19 sec on the clock. After that I managed one with 20/21 but that is not worth mentioning really.

http://https://youtu.be/47Lr60jkvW4

Some mistakes I noticed after seeing it again:

1) I wasted 10 kenki (0:50) once and once 5. But I don't know how to approach in this case?

2) 1:40 Did not use Meikyo when it came off CD which made everything afterwards a bit awkward

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I should be able to clear it with 30 seconds left, I think.
But as I said, I struggle so much more with actual boss fights - when they interrupt you, and your Cooldowns barely line up as well as they do in that perfect dummy situation, and you have forced Downtimes (e.g. Susano's Blade Attack, Alte Roite pushing you out, Catastrophe's 100Gs or dps probes).

@Claire

1) Yes it is the Allagan Weapon. Not Augmented yet since we only start training O3S tomorrow.

2) I do use food

3) No I do not use potions

4) We have a RDM in our static. No MCH, NIN and only once we had a backup BRD. Tomorrow there will be a SMN with us.

Relating gear: I do feel like I am missing the DH from the pants and gloves that I have still to replace with 330/340. Maybe my stats are not as balanced too?


At the moment I am making sure I get the mechanics right and screwed up therefore with my rotations a few times. I do get more and more confident with O1S (that's why I was surprised yesterday about my 3.6k, although I did switch a few days ago to 1 sen from 3 sen) but O2S is still a bit hectic for me trying to get everything right at the same time.

For some reason I just really thought SAM wasn't as punishing. Maybe I am getting it wrong, but I thought generally if you put up your buffs and your slashing debuff, don't let them fall off and if you take care of Higanbana and have a fairly well managed Kenki gauge (plus using haga instead of spamming Midare all the time), you can at least put out 4k at that ilevel.
It's so frustrating wanting to get good in your job, training so much and watching other gamers play over and over again and you seem to keep on failing

[DGladius]

@Gladius

http://https://youtu.be/47Lr60jkvW4

For your Haga usage at about 0:50 you could've used shinten after your yukikaze or so to dump some of your kenki.

There was quite a few times where you are late to hitting your next GCD weaponskill which overtime will lower your dps quite a bit. The more time you lose from not hitting something is a big loss especially during a boss fight.

You double-weaved shinten and kaiten between a GCD at about 1:50 and at 2:30 you weaved ageha+haga+shinten before your next GCD skill which clipped your GCDs a lot.

These are some points where it really impacted your dps.

[AmaSagahl]

Thanks Gladius, will watch your vid now!

So use at most 2 ogcd between gcds?
And what is the priorities? Haga if it's up>kaiten if going midare/higanbana>shinten>ahega if at the last percentages?

Thank you for that information, I didn't really know about the clipping to be honest.

[DGladius]

Thanks Gladius, will watch your vid now!

So use at most 2 ogcd between gcds?
And what is the priorities? Haga if it's up>kaiten if going midare/higanbana>shinten>ahega if at the last percentages?

Thank you for that information, I didn't really know about the clipping to be honest.

Ideally you don't want to double weave too much except for the opener. Outside of the opener, I only doubleweave haga with meikyo when they line up as they don't clip into my gcd much at all. Just make sure to hit your next gcd skill as soon as possible to not delay it.

Keeping uptime on the boss as high as possible while handling mechanics is also a big factor on how much dps you can do.