How To: Maximize Your DPS as Dragoon

[Eclips]

Here's your basic DRG guide, written in 5 minutes, by Eclips:
1. Don't pull aggro at the start of the fight. Put up your buffs, dots, or just do nothing.
2. Do you have enough time before the next phase of the encounter to put your dots so that they will last their full duration? Yes? Put dots on the mob. Yes, fracture too.
3. Do you only have time for 1 global cooldown? Use impulse dive from behind.
4. Do you only have time for 2 global cooldowns? Use ID, Disembowel.
5. Do you only have time for 3 global cooldowns? Use TT-VT-FT
6. Do you only have time for 4 global cooldowns? Use ID - TT - VT - FT
7. Do you only have time for 5 global cooldowns? Use ID - Dis - TT - VT - FT
....
and so on.

Start looking at it from that perspective.

tldr; Everyone needs to learn the basics, use some common sense, and stop circle jerking on "zomg max dps posts" like these.

[Odox]

Woah! Eclips, while I agree with you, you need to calm down a little or you are likely to burst a blood vessel.

The Rotation Reborn thread is not a max dps thread by any means. It simply states what abilities are your best choice if you are able to actually get them off. It's helped me (newly switched to DRG from MNk because of coil drops) max my dps for different situations. Could I have done this on my own? Sure... I was already doing it for the most part but reading through his thread gave me a better understanding of what to do when I have the chance to stay on a boss longer.

Now about this thread. It claims to be the MAX DPS. It lacks any real evidence that it is what it claims other than a 83sec fight which ,any sane person should understand, is not the normal length of any fight in the game. If I had to guess, it was Tonberry King.

Change title to "HOW TO MAX DPS ON SHORT FIGHTS W/O ANY MECHANICS"