Connecting the DoTs: A Summoner Guide

[Sleigh]

It sounds like you're doing it mostly right. You're at the mercy of your party at this point unfortunately.

I'd bet you anything your healers aren't DPSing at all and your tanks are in tank stance. You might want to suggest at the least one of your healers DPSes after the cleaves go out with the blue/green phase.

[Squa]

trying to figure out an optimum summoner burn cycle, few questions

Do pets benefit from Dreadworm trance? Should I save my pet cooldowns (Rouse/Spur/Enkindle) for Dreadworm?

[OneWingedSora]

trying to figure out an optimum summoner burn cycle, few questions

Do pets benefit from Dreadworm trance? Should I save my pet cooldowns (Rouse/Spur/Enkindle) for Dreadworm?

Nope, pets only benefit from food and potions iirc. But since you usually line up pot with DWT, you probably wanna try to fit in Enkindle during DWT.

Also, Dreadworm :P

[waifugenerator]

Dreadworm

someone Photoshop bahamut wings onto a worm pls

[Squa]

Nope, pets only benefit from food and potions iirc. But since you usually line up pot with DWT, you probably wanna try to fit in Enkindle during DWT.

Also, Dreadworm :P

OK, I noticed people would line up Raging Strikes with their pet combo attacks, I assume this will be not effective either.
Dreadwyrm

[Starkbeaumont]

Which scalling issue ?

this one.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...crease-past-50

[Koyuki38]

Sadly, if I don't use RS and Enkindle, the Carapace won't be broken to begin with.

Would upgrading my weapon to the law tomes realy be a better investment than upgrading my white belt, legs and gloves?

We started to bring the two adds together at the beginning, but it didn't make too much of a difference. From what I saw, it's the Sanuwas where my DPS can really plummet if I fuck up.

Maybe you should save all you buffs in order to use them on Dragon adds phase.

I try yesterday for the 1st time, and on the beginning i saved all buff basically used on opener to increase damages on caparace.
Since we never killed the carapace in 1 single phase but 2, i think i could save those buffs for the next phase (dragons).

Also, it's possible to Tri-disaster 1 dragon, then switch on the other and apply dots as usual, right before dragons apply the blue/green buff.
You probably would like to user DWT + raging strike + intel pot + buff pets on this moments.

As this is a phase with no interruption, feel free to delay Fester as this : 2 fester during DWT -> 30 sec -> last fester -> 20 sec -> Aether flow + DWT again -> 2 fester during DWT, etc.
Use tri-disaster during DWT too, so DWT is completely filled with fester and Ruine 3.

[Meleoffs]

I just wanted to ask and see if anyone noticed ACT parsing lower than normal with the last update. I don't know when it was but I went from seeing 1900 dps burst in rav ex last night to barely doing above 1400 with no changes in my opener other than the fact that I was hitting my buttons better and actually in the right order. I don't know when this update came out, I just restarted to install the rainbowmage update.

[Koyuki38]

never trust ACT

The only moments i reached more than 500 dps on T12 were when i did shit with my rotation while not knowing what to do with my keyboard and playing freestyle just by reseting dots in emergency + fillers and GCD waste.

Each time i did perfect opener, perfect clipping, using miasme 2 + contagion only, using ruin 2 + aa when possible, i barely go over 400...

[Jeckyl_Tesla]

Maybe you should save all you buffs in order to use them on Dragon adds phase.

Currently, with the DPS of our group, and unless I get myself some better gear, we cannot kill the carapace without me using CDs on the Carapace. It just goes downwhen I use CD's, hence why I cannot save them. But, if we do not NEED to down it in one go, I don't see why we need to pop CDs.

As for the rest of your post, I do exactly as you say, though my first TD is on CD since I used it for my burst on the Carapace.

And I always use 2 festers during DWT and delay my last one so I can DWT with AF into another 2 festers. This also co-incides with my TD, so I always get my DWT with TD on the second add, and then contagion it.