How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[HeavenlyArmed]

Frontal acc cap floating around for A4S is 647, which you need as a dps because like in normal A4 there are situations where you're tanking weak adds, meaning you'll be forced to hit them from the front.

[Thendiel]

Hey, everybody. I spoke with Dervy earlier today. He is, indeed, permanently banned from the forums. He says that he has some plans for setting up an alternative outlet for DRG discussion, but in the meantime, he has given me permission to repost his guide. This will allow me to update stat weights, BiS sets, and theorycrafting as needed in the future, which I figure is better than our using a guide/thread that is literally impossible to update.

Anyhow, I would encourage everyone to jump ship and post any future discussions in the new thread, which can be found here:

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...16#post3315016.

All glory to Dervy. RIP in pieces.

[Ninjah2r]

RIP Dervy. (WTF SE D: )

[MercuryD]

So as to not take over the new thread: RIP Dervy ;.; mastah goon forever

[whiskeybravo]

I guess rules are rules but damn SE, just go ahead and ban the players that contribute the most to the community. And furthermore, where is it exactly in the forum rules or service agreement that we can't talk about parsers? Cuz I'm not finding it.

Its not here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/63104

or here: http://support.na.square-enix.com/ru...la=1&tag=forum

Or even here: http://account.square-enix.com/agreement/us/#

[Deruflinga]

Hi people there , i would like to know if someone knows the best opener rotation for dragoon on EU serveurs since we cannot do 2off gcd ?

Actually i'm 196ilvl and my openers are between 1k4-1k6 but i'm aware i can do better but i cannot find the rotation to do an higher opener. I know there's some nice guide but always on NA/JP serv when they're able to do 2off gcd which is impossible on EU :/

Many thanks !

[Greyfrost]

Hi people there , i would like to know if someone knows the best opener rotation for dragoon on EU serveurs since we cannot do 2off gcd ?

Actually i'm 196ilvl and my openers are between 1k4-1k6 but i'm aware i can do better but i cannot find the rotation to do an higher opener. I know there's some nice guide but always on NA/JP serv when they're able to do 2off gcd which is impossible on EU :/

Many thanks !

Deru, we moved from here to http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...A-DPS-Paradigm

[Krioni]

170 + 170 + 710 + 650 + 400 = 2,100 (170 * 2 for HT and Phleb. 710 for TT combo, 650 for ID combo, 400 for the two 4th combo skills in the rotation).
2100 + 2100 + 2100 + 400 = 6700 (Adding up 3 rotations, plus 400 for 4 GK's)
6700 / 30 = 223.3333 (Total divided by the number of GCD's for the rough average potency per GCD).

Notice, however, that B4B will roughly fall somewhere on the 4th combo out of the 6 in the rotation, if held for a moment, which will become important in a second, then should be back somewhere around 1 when it comes back off CD again. The problem here being that we get 2 GK's on the first B4B and only about 1 on the second. (Maybe 2 with the calculations in the main post in this thread). (continued in next post)

[Krioni]

So what if we modify this a little?
Consider this:
1 [B4B, botd, GK, 16] 2 [19]
3 [22 ] 4 [GK, 15]
5 [GK 8] 6 [Fit in one more GK before buff runs out, no 4th proc]

We have not achieved necessarily MORE GK's, but we have rearranged how they are organized. We have three within close proximity to each other, then only one near BotD's activation. In addition, we purposefully consume the rest of the buff on the rotation before we will reactivate it.

Why? Well, first, let's just look at the numbers really quick. Average as I did before, sans buffs:
2100 + 2100 + 1900 + 400 = 6500 [Total potency, 200 less as one less 4th proc]
6500 / 29 = 224.1379 [One less GCD though...higher potency per GCD! Whoa!] (Continued in hopefully last post)

[Krioni]

Okay, last post:

In addition, it allows something neat. When B4B comes off CD somewhere before the 4th combo, we can actually activate it in such a manner as to fit in three gierskoguls. We can consume the fourth GK whenever, we don't need BotD anymore until we reactivate it in the 1st combo when it all starts over.

I admit, I haven't done much math/theorycrafting around before, and I know my numbers aren't quite as perfect (I am assuming a 2.4s GCD, but I haven't made a perfectly timelined thing for you guys...yet). But am I missing something, or is this possible/an alternative?