summoner dps how to do it

[Orrias]

Advanced Summoner Guide

Openers only vary with when people prefer to use Rouse/Spur (e.g. pre-pull or just after Bio> Miasma > Bio II), but you opener can change as well if you're party is using a pull macro (i.e. Shadowflare placed at least 5 seconds before the actual pull is iniated), or the boss is stationary, meaning you have to swiftcast Shadowflare toward the end of your opening rotation.




[BOSS ENCOUNTER OPENERS]


w/ a pull macro:

Pre-cast Shadowflare > Raging Strikes > HQ X-pot of INT> Bio II > Miasma > Bio > (wait a moment for Bio to register on you target/ sprint to within melee range) > Fester > Miasma II* > HQ Potent Poison Pot* > Contagion > Ruin II > Spur > Rouse > Ruin II > Enkindle > Fester > Ruin spam & Book auto attacks**

w/o a pull macro:

Raging Strikes > HQ X-pot of INT> Bio II > Miasma > Bio > Swiftcast > Fester > Shadowflare > Miasma II* > HQ Potent Poison Pot* > Contagion > Ruin II > Spur > Rouse > Ruin II > Enkindle > Fester > Ruin spam & Book auto attacks**

* You need to be within melee range and is only a slight dps increase.
** You also need to be within melee range and again is only a slight dps increase.

{You may want to omit Miasma II, Poison pots, as well as auto attacking in melee range till you feel entirely comfortable with the rotation and/or the encounter}




[PET USAGE]

Ifrit-Egi

Advantages: Higher dps output (Egi only) than Garuda.
Disadvantages: Dps downtime when travelling to target.

Benefits from a Monk's Dragon Kick, as well as Warrior's Storm's Eye debuffs.

Garuda-Egi

Advantages: Contagion (allows for more Ruin spam/ movement if needed), almost non-existant movement.
Disadvantages: Lower dps output

Benefits from Foe's Requiem.

I know there are more potential 'advantages/ disadvantages' than the one's listed above (e.g. DoT's falling off at less than optimal timings, Pet AoE range concerns), but I just kept it to encounter-general sense. Anyway, with much less concern for MP now, you can use Ifrit-Egi for all of FCoB (only needing to switch him out for whichever node your dps'ing in T11.

[Panteleon]

Mmm.... I agree in principle with the person who said he recast DoT's prior to the end of Raging Strikes. Though I only recast Bio I, and I lead with Bio I to get the most "up time" out of it under RS (it is the strongest DoT).

But, honestly, I hadn't considered the relative worth of recasting the other DoTs. I need to see what the DPS difference is if I use those GCD's to recast all the DoTs (and get extra time out of all of them) instead of just Bio I.

For now, setting aside potions, this's been my opener:
Raging Strikes -> Bio I -> Bio II -> Miasma -> Fester -> Ruin II -> Quickcast/Shadowflare -> Ruin II (Miasma II? Per poster above) -> Bio I -> Fester -----(RS may or may not be done now, but in the last moment)--------> +/- Ruin II
RS is done at this point, so go ahead and use finger time for the Contagion now.

After the last Ruin II/Contagion -> Ruin II (I need another one for finger time for Contagion) -> Rouse/Spur Macro -> Ruin II -> Fester/Enkindle.

But, in deference to Orrias, I haven't calculated the pots. I guess X-Int would go before RS... but I have never thought about it... and I suppose the HQ Potent Poison Pot can replace the Ruin II/Miasma II slot above... (EDIT: Don't use them, not sure: the PPP is off GCD? Can it just follow the Shadowflare?)

I am, however, sure about the relative weight of leading with Bio I and recasting Bio I before the RS is done: that is a DPS increase, and should be done. Contagion should be withheld till after that.