New Player Lancer Question

[Garlyle]

If you've figured out that - right now - Impulse Drive spam is stronger than your base combo? Congratulations. You're A. more investigative than the majority of your peers (for a distressingy long time), and B. Correct. If you want to maximize your DPS, your rotation is to maintain Heavy Thrust and spam Impulse Drive. Yes, exciting, I know. It's mostly an awkward consequence of not having all your moves yet.

When you hit 18, you will want to use your 1-2 when Life Surge is up, as activating that on Vorpal Thrust will do more than Impulse Drive and make up for it. Otherwise however, this won't change until level 26 - and especially at 30 you'll start seeing Lancer get significantly more complicated and involved as you get more and more tools at your disposal.

If you want to make it more interesting, consider bringing in additional moves from other classes that you may not always have access to or otherwise use. Archer's Straight Shot, Archer's Venomous Buff, and Marauder's Fracture are various attacks that, while you will eventually phase them out, can be cross-classed into Lancer to provide you a more interesting rotation and increase your DPS.