How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Jonnycbad]

2.31 gcd...that's a mighty amount of skill speed I would think, no?

[Thendiel]

Whoever reaches 56 first will need to answer the big question: Can Blood of the Dragon be extended infinitely by our 4th-hit combos, or is there a hard cap on BotD duration?

[rickyguo]

it caps at 30 seconds

[Thendiel]

It can only have a maximum of 30 seconds' duration at any one moment, yes. What I'm wondering is whether its duration can be increased over and over again in order to extend infinitely across the course of an encounter. I'm guessing that it can, but some people read the tooltip as indicating that it's a hard cap of 30 cumulative seconds per BotD.

[Aiurily]

it can be increased infinitely yes

and you can combo f&c after full thrust & chaos thrust

[Thendiel]

That detail about Fang and Claw is interesting. I guess we will get to decide between Fang and Claw and Wheeling Thrust based on our positioning, rather than being forced to chain them with specific combos?

Also, the infinite extension factor pretty much confirms that BotD/Geirskogul management is the core property of level 60 DRG. Thanks, Aiurily!

[Thendiel]

I don't know about you guys, but popping all of these new buffs for every pull is getting kind of exhausting for me. IR, BFB, BL, BotD, followed by Power Surge and Life Surge, eventually with potions for progression... RIP my wrists.

[RachaelMarie22]

Oh dear..it already felt like a complicated dance on controller. Our hands will be going up in smoke every time we burst!

[pandabearcat]

Down with controllers.

(It sucks on keyboard too)

[Aiurily]

ahaha oh wow, this is actually really fucking annoying

it's not that FT and CT can chain into either BoTD combo like i mistakenly said earlier, it's that there is a 50/50 chance of proccing either F&C or WT. so if you do TT>VT>FT, you will either proc F&C for a 290 potency flank, or a WT for a 290 potency rear, at a 50% chance each. so for example, if you do something very typical like rear chaos thrust>(jump) and you proc F&C, there's no way you're gonna get the F&C flank proc without losing a bit of your GCD. that's going to take some getting used to

anyway geirskogul animation is pretty fast at least