How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Dervy]

All I'm gonna say is that A4S accuracy is above 645. I do know, roughly what it is, but I'll not post the sets until Elysium/Lucrezia and other FC's who start to clear it start posting information.

As for A3S, the accuracy is 638-640. I think it's 639, which is exactly dead on the set I posted in the OP.

[SerHonk]

Well, that answers the question that I was going to ask. 17 misses on our AS3 attempts tonight, thank you RNJEsus.

[HaelseMikiro]

Proposed Bis for 646 accuracy and 590 SkS - total weight = 1722.943
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/RFBY

other than getting the spear and being Gobtwine heavy, it's a pretty easy to assemble set. Now if minimum accuracy ends up being 647+ .........
back to the drawing board

Edit: Also a proposed pre-A4 BiS for 652 acc and 601 SkS - total weight 1661.086.
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/RFCL

This set requires 12 weeks of esos, 12 weeks of A1 manifestos (assuming you get 0 drops), 6 weeks of A2 manifestos (assuming gloves don't drop)
and also safely assumes you receive 1 Gobtwine and 1 Gobcoat, although neither is required for this set to still be feasible for clearing A4. A3 loot isn't counted because hopefully it takes less than 6 weeks to down A4 after that, and I can't assume good RNG in crafting a pre-A4 BiS.

Disclaimer: Pre-A4 BiS is designed for people with the worlds worst RNG to still be competitively geared for A4s in a time frame that I would expect the average progression static to clear savage Alex. Top 10% need not be offended by this gear set, but feel free to improve upon it as your available gear allows

[Sekundessounet]

For A4 Savage if the accuracy is around 640 - 645 then this Set might be good in my opinion. It has a strict Skillspeed though, which is around 593. The total weight is 1727.029 though, if I didn't calculated wrong.
Any suggestions to other BiS Sets when going for Savage considering accuracy is about 640 - 645 due to front adds?

Well you can't have the Gordian Trident if you didn't down A4S already D:

[whiskeybravo]

Are there any other sites like Ariyala? For some reason my work decided to block it as "Adult/mature content". I can use my phone but it's kinda finicky. Any suggestions?

Also, those monk buffs 0.0

#IamSecond

[Ricdeau]

Are there any other sites like Ariyala? For some reason my work decided to block it as "Adult/mature content". I can use my phone but it's kinda finicky. Any suggestions?

Also, those monk buffs 0.0

#IamSecond

I noticed the same thing with content filters classifying Ariyala as "Adult/Mature". Luckily I control the content filtering so it's not an issue for me, but I will say that the solver on Ariyala is completely trash now at least for monk since 3.0 when changing the weights. I've had to hand calculate a lot of things since the sets Ariyala was giving me were completely wrong when you do the math. I haven't updated the old spreadsheet I stole from Dervy and modified for monk gear.

Anyway, that's your best bet. Use a spreadsheet as it is more accurate and more flexible. I'd see if Dervy has a new one he's willing to share with you guys or you can make your own.

[whiskeybravo]

I noticed the same thing with content filters classifying Ariyala as "Adult/Mature". Luckily I control the content filtering so it's not an issue for me, but I will say that the solver on Ariyala is completely trash now at least for monk since 3.0 when changing the weights. I've had to hand calculate a lot of things since the sets Ariyala was giving me were completely wrong when you do the math. I haven't updated the old spreadsheet I stole from Dervy and modified for monk gear.

Anyway, that's your best bet. Use a spreadsheet as it is more accurate and more flexible. I'd see if Dervy has a new one he's willing to share with you guys or you can make your own.

Thanks, Ricdeau. I don't use the site for the solver, though, just comparing gear sets and planning my upgrade path. I know xivdb has the wardrobe feature but it doesn't work as well as ariyala. Shucks

So how are you guys optimizing A2S dps? My group got to enrage last night 12% left on the Gob Widow. I cant parse myself because I play on ps4. I think for sure there is room for improvement on the Correct GK usage. Does anyone do AoE? (how great would it be if Belt, hands, or feet were to drop for me lol )

When it comes to gear I lucked out I have all right side Accessories for A1S. Then I have my ilvl 200 spear and Body. I will have enough to buy pants but I am not 100% sure. I still use Ilvl 180 ring and Hands because a lack of skill speed.

That's really nice, I got ring last night for my first a1s drop, I don't really like what it did to my skill speed tho >.<

I switched to walker from last week, but from the exp I had before there really isn't a way to sustain any AoE. I just focused on burning down ST while smn and sch baned and brd did his thing. One thing I've been playing around with for aoe is skipping phleb to do an extra GK when mobs hp is getting low, you can get away with 18-19 sec instead of waiting for 22-23.

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.

This is an older post about using the walker on ps4.. my solution was to disable target filtering for everything but enemies. I still use the L1 cycling but disabling everything really helped for just scrolling left-right (which is what I'm used to). Note that I left the option to interact with objects (the walker in this case) under my "when weapon is drawn". So sheathed selects only enemies, drawn selects enemies + interactive objects. Working pretty good. And another tip for anyone else, disable L1 auto-run.. It's pretty lame when you're moving away from the bomb, trying to cycle enemies, only to have your walker turn around and start walking back towards the bomb because auto-run was on .____.

[BristolRuss]

Are there any other sites like Ariyala? For some reason my work decided to block it as "Adult/mature content".

Remove the ffxiv before http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/ and that's probably why

[Jonnycbad]

Yeah DRG has it pretty good right now, can't really think of anything they can do to enhance the job. However, a quality of life adjustment would be to unlock animation lock for Jump even further (when SSD or DFD actually lands on the target, you can move your character left/right, but with Jump, you're locked). Currently it's difficult to avoid an AoE until very late in Jump's animation, making it very dangerous. Literally the most annoying thing about DRG is using Jump and committing to not moving for almost a whole GCD, which sucks for positionals/avoiding damage e.g. if you just used jump, after a chaos thrust and Wheeling Thrust procs, but the mob turns, you would basically lose your rear positional because you would have no time to strafe around before the GCD is up due to Jump's animation lock, whereas SSD and DFD unlock your movement after impact.

[Leananshee]

That's the same problem i have with jump...annoying that the main/basic jump isn't as 'flexible' to use as the other two x.X Been caught out a couple of times in A1S because of it and also means i lose some time if i get the side based 4th rather than behind...Need to try to be better though i suppose lol