How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Jonnycbad]

You can do this with anything. Sometimes if I just used a GCD, and the mob is running away and SSD/DFD are down, you can use Jump to get in range, and for the 0.5seconds that your character is close (before automatically jumping back to your start point), you can use your next GCD in the combo.

[Yesui]

Interesting, I tried it out with a few different abilities but piercing talon was the only one I was able to do it with. I'll have to do some more tests on that one.

[Jonnycbad]

I have definitely used Disembowel on a boss, boss dashes away, I hit jump and as soon as my character is in range, I hit chaos thrust, as my character hops back to the starting position.

Try it on a dummy. Real simple:

1) Get about 10y away
2) Use Jump
3) Attempt to use True Thrust when close.

If your timing is right, you will Trust Thrust successfully before jumping back. In practice you would use it on whatever the next appropriate GCD would be. (I wish we could use this as a way to cancel the second half of Jump's animation to make it like a SSD gap close, but alas...)

[Dervy]

That's uh... Interesting. Never thought you could use Jump like that... Very useful for PvP though, for those quick ganks.

[Yesui]

I usually use it to chunk the last 10% of a pesky ninjas hp before they can run too far away.

[Jonnycbad]

It literally moves your character to the mob for the 1.5seconds of animation (unlike FFXI's Jump where you are actually rooted in place despite the animation showing you diving on the mob.) As you know, this is why you would sometimes take damage from the electrofields in T10 when using Jump. In PVP, could use it to gank with Jump+Phlebotomize or something.

[Leananshee]

Hmm...will have to give it a go. I get annoying latency when i'm trying to speed through my rotation though - most luck i get is with SSD or DFD. When I pop it sometimes it doesn't use the CD but the move happens anyway I don't think the damage goes off which is a little meh, but it gets me to the boss and i can then use it again straight away or as what usually happens, i weave it between my next combo etc.

[Jonnycbad]

Or for pvp:

Piercing Talon from far-> Jump->Legsweep when in range->Piercing Talon as you are jumping back->Close the distance and use a close range GCD while they're stunned.

[Yesui]

Could you use this to do something like GCD > Power Surge+Jump, hit your next GCD halfway through the jump, then another oGCD when you land?

[Jonnycbad]

Would have to try it out I suppose. You can only do an action on the second half of Jump's animation i.e. the 'jump-back' part. The window is quite small as it's the time between after landing on the mob, and the split second you're still in range of the mob AS you're hopping back.