How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[xnonamex]

Good job with creating new thread. I was about to suggest that we need that since the old one is severely outdated esp with the coming of HW and the front page was not being updated any more.
Would be even more awesome if we could get some helpful admin to close the old one so that there is no juggling between the threads.

Can't wait to get my new drg awesomeness tomorrow!

[ErzaScarlet77]

pretty damn excited for DRG in 3.0
they always had the best looking gears and now the new skills look crazy good
oh and AOE internal release? yes please

[xnonamex]

I reckon. I need to find a way to stick these skills on my g600 to hit them fluidly.

Yeah same problem! i'm already using most of the combinations that are reasonable for me. Cuz the bottom row is just hard to reach tbh so i tend to stick to the upper 9 buttons on the side. i will need to redo my toolbars grr... well i guess i could push the def buffs in some corner and not use them for the simplicity and go MOAR DEEEPS and trust the heals

One thing Geirskogul has over Doomspike it's TP consumption. Doomspike pretty much nails our TP bar during speedruns, whereas Geirskogul would give us a little respite. I guess.

If you have a good speedrun it's usually fine. you kill stuff before you ommm and if you have a nin with you then is fine. Don't think it will be worth going into rotation to renew BotD, just pop BotD and blow it in Geir i guess. because usually with all the mess going on in speedruns with mobs moving around and stuff usually the single target rotation gets crippled to some extent anyways if you are trying to put the doomspike in the optimal position after that.

[Jonnycbad]

30% increase to Jump would be a 260 potency attack, no? Still would be weaker than Full Thrust. I never used it on Jump unless a target is at like 1-2% and I just finished a combo, and Power Surge and Life Surge are both up, i'll stack them both on jump just to get a big hit. Or while doing atma books, I would just one shot mobs with PS+LS Jump then run to the next spawn(in the case of spawns that were spread out far).

[SpecialKK]

pretty damn excited for DRG in 3.0
they always had the best looking gears and now the new skills look crazy good
oh and AOE internal release? yes please

I'm actually starting to feel like the gears are too bloated. I feel like I'm wearing 200 lbs of armor lol

[SunnyHirose]

Every now and then, I have to carefully evaluate which pieces I will never actually glam. But a good portion of my DRG gear collection is actually soldiery pieces I've been wanting to turn in for seals for months now.

[HaelseMikiro]

for anyone more concerned with hotbar space than the dps loss from using a macro, I've already got this one made and saved on my DRG to test out

/micon "Blood of the Dragon"
/ac "Fang and Claw" <t>
/ac "Wheeling Thrust" <t>
/ac "Blood of the Dragon"

just a standard priority macro that will use FC or WT if you have the required buffs to use them, and pop BotD if you don't. Once people have working parsers and level 58+ we can see exactly how much of a loss it is.

[Jonnycbad]

Someone told me on here a few weeks ago they were implementing a new hotbar option for people who use controllers. I really don't want to touch my mouse or keyboard while DPSing with my controller, and I can't play with only a keyboard/mouse, as FFXIV is the only PC game I play, I'm a console gamer at heart...I need a gamepad. Problem is I already use all my L2,R2, and L2+R2 slots on existing abilities.

[Avalios]

for anyone more concerned with hotbar space than the dps loss from using a macro, I've already got this one made and saved on my DRG to test out

/micon "Blood of the Dragon"
/ac "Fang and Claw" <t>
/ac "Wheeling Thrust" <t>
/ac "Blood of the Dragon"

just a standard priority macro that will use FC or WT if you have the required buffs to use them, and pop BotD if you don't. Once people have working parsers and level 58+ we can see exactly how much of a loss it is.

Having one GCD macro'd will make very little difference, it's when you have them all as macros it becomes painfully obvious that you are attacking slower.
I think having Fang and claw + wheeling thrust macrod together will be quite common even at high end play regardless of what the elitists will come in here and say, but i personally wouldn't add blood into it. To use a macro'd GCD you have to spam the button to get it to go off as quickly as you can from previous GCDs end because a macro does not Que up the next attack the way a non macro does which will end up popping your blood when you dont want it to.

[ish007xx]

nice new thread for the drg cant wait for tomorrow to test them new skills