How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Dualgunner]

Hey everyone! I just wanted to pop by and show gratitude for this thread, and it's predecessor, for inspiring me to stay as a dragoon main.

Any major tips for controller users? There are so many skills controller makes it hard to keep track of. What I have taken to doing is abusing cross hotbars for double weaving:
L2+left=he
L2+R2+left=bfb
R2+left=bl

Rinse and repeat for the other directions. Also potions on my server are expensive af. ; w; any alternative or am I sol? Lol

[Sennema]

Any major tips for controller users? There are so many skills controller makes it hard to keep track of. What I have taken to doing is abusing cross hotbars for double weaving:
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Also potions on my server are expensive af. ; w; any alternative or am I sol? Lol

Abusing crossbars is where it's at. I have my GCDs all on hotbar one, with my 4ths on the R2+L2/L2+R2 bar for ease of access, and my cooldowns on hotbar 2. Then disabled the shared hotbars when weapon is drawn, and added my oGCDs to hotbar 7&8 (which you can't access on controller really, but you can view your cooldowns to see if you need to switch bars to activate any).

As for potions, I play on Jenova, so they're hella expensive. Same with food. I craft/gather to mitigate the cost, though, and I don't use potions in regular dungeons. They're for boss fights only.

[Aquaslash]

Abusing crossbars is where it's at. I have my GCDs all on hotbar one, with my 4ths on the R2+L2/L2+R2 bar for ease of access, and my cooldowns on hotbar 2. Then disabled the shared hotbars when weapon is drawn, and added my oGCDs to hotbar 7&8 (which you can't access on controller really, but you can view your cooldowns to see if you need to switch bars to activate any).

As for potions, I play on Jenova, so they're hella expensive. Same with food. I craft/gather to mitigate the cost, though, and I don't use potions in regular dungeons. They're for boss fights only.

Will I be losing much DPS if I ignore potions altogether? They're really expensive on cactuar, and I don't have much gil as it is

[Sennema]

Will I be losing much DPS if I ignore potions altogether? They're really expensive on cactuar, and I don't have much gil as it is

Yes, you will. The HQ Draconian Strength potion is +100 (108 is the actual cap I think) strength, which is huge. In practice, though, if you're not doing high-level raiding you can get by fine without them, or with using cheaper potions. I use mine in progression (not doing savage alex yet as my previous static is now defunct, but I used them in fcob/t9), but once I had things on farm I'd use the lower-quality ones or try and get by without them. But from what my FC is saying, the DPS check on Faust in A1S is pretty insane, so you'll definitely need all the help you can get there.

[Leonus]

Yes, you will. The HQ Draconian Strength potion ....

I'm the opposite. I don't use the drac potions for progression, as I feel it's a waste of gil. Only when I'm confident that we can beat it is when I start using that stuff, otherwise it's just xpots, nq edition.

[BristolRuss]

What is everybody's best parse so far on Faust? I just did 1448 which I was pretty happy with.

[Sessurea]

What is everybody's best parse so far on Faust? I just did 1448 which I was pretty happy with.

What about your damage on faust alone? Dragonfire dive and geiriskol (how2spell) add trucks of aoe damage that clips the adds.

[Lv99Caterpie]

Is it viable to hit 2 ogcds when you get mad latency? I find myself feeling less effective trying for 2 ogcd weave when button pushes don't register correctly. I'm from New Zealand and play on PS4. I don't main Dragoon, but it's my go-to DPS class so I like to not be a burden in 4man content and do mad deeps.

Also another question about disposing of trash pulls. Is DS even worth using anymore? What is best for large groups? I usually run with my partner and she mains a SMN. I always feel like she murders everything and I'm there purely to put the boss on a pike.

[Reiden219]

What exactly is a 4th tier ability?

[Greyfrost]

What exactly is a 4th tier ability?

I believe the 4th tier ability mentioned is the ability gained from level 50-60.

But strictly speaking, it's either fang and claw / Wheeling thrust. and since we won't know what we get until we finish a combo, hence the vague name.