BRD DPS (And how to improve mine!)

[Ooshima]

So how about some rotations / recommended macros / feed back on pot spamming / recommended foods? Numbers - cool I see 'em - so what the heck is the trick to getting them?

BRD doesn't really have rotations. It is kinda a simple job to learn, but difficult to master. It requires your concentration and a little bit of experience to catch the timing to refresh your DoTs (and sometimes judge whether it is worth to spread DoTs), time and weave your buffs/OGCD skills in between your Heavy/Straight shot spams. Taking note of your BL/SS procs. BL should be fired off the immediate chance you have a OGCD slot (ie after a GCD skills). SS proc should be technically treated the same way, but since it can hold for 10s (or 8? can't recall off the bat), refresh your DoTs/fire off your other OGCD such as repelling shot etc before using the proc (of course you should not let it drop).

Other things such as ensuring that your DoTs are up before playing songs and your DoTs, when reapplied, are buffed by RS/BfF/IR as much as possible helps. There are a lot of little things here and there and tbh I'm still picking them up/practicing them. I only played BRD late 2.0 to get into coil (was a DRG, a really bad one lol) and been doing a lot of silly things and mistakes until I spoke to good and experienced BRDs for tips and corrections.

Macros is entirely personal preference. I used to macro BL to HS, but I'm back to full manual. Some people bind BL and ME to HS, some bind them to even the 2 DoTs. It's up to you.

I would like to see a ~4 min parse if you don't mind(2 invigorates+running out of tp).

I'll try to see to it.

[JohnMccain]

Macros is entirely personal preference. I used to macro BL to HS, but I'm back to full manual. Some people bind BL and ME to HS, some bind them to even the 2 DoTs. It's up to you.

I personally wouldn't advise using a spam macro. BRD is already an easy enough class to play as stated why would you need macros to make it easier? Bloodletter has a long animation. Being stuck in animation lock from bloodletter going into your global can eat away your dps by quite a bit. Mastering BRD is about maximizing dps and using a macro to promote laziness is not doing so. Use your bloodletter procs/misery's end manually, if bloodletter or misery's end is triggered after your global reaches the 7:00 position save it and use it right after your next global. Just my experience of using macros, take it or leave it.

[Ooshima]

I personally wouldn't advise using a spam macro. BRD is already an easy enough class to play as stated why would you need macros to make it easier? Bloodletter has a long animation. Being stuck in animation lock from bloodletter going into your global can eat away your dps by quite a bit. Mastering BRD is about maximizing dps and using a macro to promote laziness is not doing so. Use your bloodletter procs/misery's end manually, if bloodletter or misery's end is triggered after your global reaches the 7:00 position save it and use it right after your next global. Just my experience of using macros, take it or leave it.

One of the reason why I switched back to manual. After experimenting a little with macros (after hearing many players claiming that it is good), I find manual slightly more advantageous.

There are a lot of times in battle you need to care for mechanics and such and your concentration on your CD timers and stuffs can get off track a little, and a small macro such as binding BL to HS can be helpful. It all depends on the player - what the player is comfortable with, and current level of proficiency. Some players may benefit from macro, some don't. If at a certain point, a BL-bind-to-HS macro can help a player to concentrate more on mechanics and eventually improve DPS, then I think he/she has a reason to use. When he/she gets used to the fight, I think eventually he/she can notice the little times you don't want to fire that BL yet but because it is macro'd, it fired, then it would be his/her learning experience to figure out how to overcome it in his/her own play style and further improve from there.

That's why I can't deny macro do have its uses, just depending on who's the user.

[arctic]

BRD doesn't really have rotations.

Whats YOUR opening rotation if you don't mind me asking?