How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[whiskeybravo]

L1 and up or down to select bomb from enemy list. I'm on PS4 and I've doing well with it. The 8th phase sucks cause there are more mobs so bomb won't show up on enmity list. I tell group to stack all together on a spot to minimize drops in the crowd. Worse comes to worse whm fluid aura can knock it out during that phase.

Thanks, King. I'll try that out next attempts. I remember hearing about that a long time ago but never got use to using it as I changed the target settings to only select enemies and party members when weapon is drawn (I think other objects were included with that) but that solved a lot of targeting issues. No weapon drawn for gobwalking tho >.<

Should I save legsweep and Jumps for Disembowel? Like if I just killed a mob and I'm running to the next, and Jump and Leg are the only oGCD ready, should I use them as soon as I can, or wait for ID>Dis first for the 10%?

I personally blow leg sweep whenever, I do try to be conscious of doing too much before disembowel is up tho.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post3036774

Nice new video you added!

[SunnyHirose]

Should I save legsweep and Jumps for Disembowel? Like if I just killed a mob and I'm running to the next, and Jump and Leg are the only oGCD ready, should I use them as soon as I can, or wait for ID>Dis first for the 10%?

In terms of potency / time, the break-even point for whether to use a skill before or after a buff is the buff's effect times the cooldown.

Example: Leg Sweep immediately is the same potency / time as Leg Sweep with Disembowel but 2 seconds later. Unless Disembowel is the first available GCD or there are other buffs to activate, use Leg Sweep immediately after your next GCD.

Jump needs 3 seconds for Disembowel to pay off. So, it's more or less the same deal as Leg Sweep, but with the added caveat that you should continue into Chaos Thrust to get the benefit of Disembowel without halting GCDs, and even then you're cutting it really close to 3 seconds if you are latency-free. However! Power Surge is a bigger thing to be waiting on.

Spineshatter Dive and Dragonfire Dive need 6 seconds and 12 seconds respectively, so waiting for Disembowel is better potency than using it before.

Exercise 1: Will holding out for Heavy Thrust pay off?

If you don't have a combo to finish, sure. It's only one GCD, and the acceptable amount of time to hold for 15% is longer than for 10%, after which you can revert to the 10% calculations above, provided there is no IR or BfB to pop. Technically, losing Heavy Thrust is a bit worse than losing Blood of the Dragon in a general sense. In a practical sense, it rarely ever comes down to one or the other for more than a few seconds.

Exercise 2: Will Blood of the Dragon pay off?

ahahahahahaha this is above my pay grade

In practical terms, though:
- Whoever uses a skill the most times usually wins. Fights don't usually give you enough time for small potency gains to be noticeable over getting more uses.
- Whoever uses a skill that causes their own death usually loses.
- Whoever saves a gap closer for a good reason has diminished ~1.8% [Spineshatter] or ~1.1% [Dragonfire] of theoretical dummy DPS to save the >92% that has to be done up close. Uptime is the strongest buff in the game, period. (And lots of boss rotations sync up with cooldown timers anyway.)

[TheKingSlayer]

Uptime is the strongest buff in the game, period.

Sunny, I'm stealing this quote and passing it off as my own. It's only fair I let you know.

[SunnyHirose]

Please do. The most aphoristic version, the form I like to use, is "Uptime is the best buff."

[pandabearcat]

It is the ABCs of caster dps, always be casting.

[Andyman]

Anyone else rather annoyed that the Au Ra horns clip with the AF2 chestpiece's collar? I love this chest piece and I love my Au Ra, so disappointing.

[Jonnycbad]

If you're a miquote/au ra, and wear the body, do you have 2 tails?

[Yesui]

If you're a miquote/au ra, and wear the body, do you have 2 tails?

No, it replaces your tail.

[Daralii]

Anyone else rather annoyed that the Au Ra horns clip with the AF2 chestpiece's collar? I love this chest piece and I love my Au Ra, so disappointing.

Au ra horns clip with everything but the tin can tank set, though.

Long hair clips with the collar like crazy. If they're going to keep designing chests with insanely high collars, I wish they'd add an option for an automatic ponytail when wearing them, like TERA and a couple others.

[Yesui]

Nothing incredible, but something interesting that I've found. If you are out of range for piercing talon, but within range for jump, you can jump to the target, and then throw your spear before the jump takes you back out of range.