Quote Originally Posted by Gruntler View Post
I propose the following fixes:

One: Actually use Elusive Jump on opener, it's seriously, like, you just turn your character away, while targetting the boss. It's not rocket surgery.

Two: Stop pretending Spineshatter Dive doesn't exist

Three: Stop pretending Dragonfire Dive doesn't exist.

Like, you seem to be confused. Dragoon doesn't lack gapclosers. It has the most gap-closers.

3>1
Their problem is that they are trying to save Spineshatter and Dragonfire for in the middle of the rotation, they are likely trying to put Disembowel up, and also that Dragon Blood skill to maximize the DPS that the two dives do, instead of using it as an opener or gap-closer after a phase or something.

I will admit that I fell into this trap at first and then I realized that the time I spent dinking around with using Elusive Jump to open is kinda stupid because then it could be on cooldown when the boss does an AoE, and I should just use Spineshatter and be done with it. The piddly DPS increase is not worth losing several seconds of running up to the boss to start my rotation, and I get to keep my Elusive Jump ready for dodging AoEs instead. I lose a little DPS, but meh. Not enough that I'm worried.

It isn't like I'm doing Ultimate Alexander or something.