How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Nominous]

What's the Skillspeed required to reach that? Time to redo zodiac materia in preparation?

There's tons of SS on gear. A DRG in my static has over 600, and almost under 2.4 GCD.

[Sleigh]

What's the Skillspeed required to reach that? Time to redo zodiac materia in preparation?

By the time you're level 60 you're not using your relic, I'd recommend not wasting gil/materia on shifting your level 50-57 weapon around.

[HeavensSword]

I unfortunately had to miss most of my early access time due to my brother's wedding this weekend (not salty, wouldn't miss that for anything). Been trying to read through all of the findings and reactions for all jobs though. It may still be early, but in general how are we doing in comparison to other dps? Seems everyone has there own set of issues.

A summary for DRG atm seems to be:

Randomness of F&C/WT. (I'm not too worried about this)
Need for SS to allow for more smoothness in doubling up on oGCD skills.
DoT clipping.

[Sleigh]

I unfortunately had to miss most of my early access time due to my brother's wedding this weekend (not salty, wouldn't miss that for anything). Been trying to read through all of the findings and reactions for all jobs though. It may still be early, but in general how are we doing in comparison to other dps? Seems everyone has there own set of issues.

A summary for DRG atm seems to be:

Randomness of F&C/WT. (I'm not too worried about this)
Need for SS to allow for more smoothness in doubling up on oGCD skills.
DoT clipping.

Haven't been following DRG too closely but AFAIK you guys will also suffer on momentary disconnects/mechanics a lot more than before, kinda like BLM. Not a big deal on dummy but a huge deal in real fights.

[Jonnycbad]

We'll have to see what happens when the dust settles. I'm 99% sure they will make slight adjustments to things in coming updates.

What I really want is for them to removing the random 50/50% of procs and let FT/CT proc their respective finishers 100% of the time, given that their potency is already low and the positionals are a chore when combined with randomness, especially during mechanics. Increasing the potency on CF/WT to 300+, dropping Geirskogul's duration reduction from -10s of BoTD to -5, and increasing the cap of BoTD duration to 45 or 60 seconds would be icing and would ease up the difficulty. Mechanics are annoying enough in high level play, button mashing in an intricate order like a Capcom fighting game.

[ColdestHeaven]

EDIT: And wow, this rotation is really tight... One slight delay, one slight GCD clip, and it's game-over.

I did not believe you at first. On the dummy it didn't really seem that drastic. But in dungeon...damn. There were times where I did not even notice HOW I lost the buff. I don't main monk, but does it really feel that frantic there too with the greased lightning? Was monk as stressful as dragoon feels now? Aside from spinning mobs, the random finishers don't even feel like a problem anymore, but the timer on the Blood really drives me crazy.

[Jonnycbad]

I haven't hit 58 yet but wouldn't you only need it to be tight until BoTD cooldown refreshes? So basically try your best to keep it up for about 60 seconds, then if it falls off, the cooldown should be up...right?

[Butcherboy]

I've been getting alot of ilvl 115 crafted gear. Do u guys thinks its still to early to meld any?

[Lucael_Shikaree]

A lil late to the drg party since leveling War.. I started to work on getting drg to 51 to grind dungeons in off time.. But wow.. I'm not sure I like how Fang and Claw/Wheeling operate, especially with using a controller. Any tips on how you guys set it up? I feel like I have no more space for drg, or really any class. I set up a hotbar changing macro for war Defiance/Deliverance abilities, and it's working OK for now. I'm not sure that will work on the other classes though

Edit: Lots of controller users suffering ; ; SE Plz

This. I'm a pad user only on DRG, since I started on PS3 before switching to PC and didn't bother to change. I could fit all the rotation single target GCD and CD in one set of cross skill, but now it seems is going to be a huge problem since I need to switch. I still need to find out which one is better: if switching set or using L2+R2/R2+L2. Maybe it's time to change to G16/G300 set but I'm so used to gamepad.

[Aiurily]

a lot of times, instead of being able to blow geirskogul and refresh botd by using the buff itself before a FT/CT, i have to hold onto it because there's a high chance i can drop it depending on what mechanics/phase changes i have to deal with

have to play smart and plan a lot more in advance compared to 2.x