Advice for Dragoons in O5S?

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I've not played dragoon in that fight but I can tell you some things that can help or screw you on your dps. This is whether you get mechanics or not and if you get cornered by ghosts. The other is whether your group cheeses the ghost room portion as well. People also spam AOEs and such during add phase so that can boost your dps a lot without you really actually doing more worthwhile DPS if you know what I mean.

If you get sucked into ghost room during the normal battle you'll loose a lot of dps. If you have to disengage from boss to kite ghost or place circle AOE you lose a lot of dps. These things you don't have much control over.

That being said, with my genji monk weapon and normal 350 sigma left side I hit 4900 in o5s and monk supposed to do 300 more. So given you mostly have 350 gear I think 5k is probably a bit optimistic for someone that is new. I just quit the raid group I was playing with, but our monk always had bad runs in o5s and barely got higher dps than my monk run even though he had way better gear, so sometimes you just don't do well lol.

O6S is really the fight where knowing your rotation and optimizing really gives you more obvious results since there is very little downtime.