How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[spelley]

that's really solid compared to mine, nice. i think you can tweak it to get more jumps off while fully buffed though (and it looks like you missed PH)

HT (BFB+BL) > ID (xpot) > Dis (IR+BoTD) > CT (PS+LSW) > 4th (Jump) > PH (SSD/DFD) > TT (SSD/DFD) > VT (LS) > FT > 4th

I actually really like the idea having the Leg Sweep right before the 4th because anything you CAN stun will be held still while moving to your 4th positional, which means I can still do (at least some of) the "proper" rotation (minus potions in my case) while soloing to build muscle memory.

[Aiurily]

I actually really like the idea having the Leg Sweep right before the 4th because anything you CAN stun will be held still while moving to your 4th positional, which means I can still do (at least some of) the "proper" rotation (minus potions in my case) while soloing to build muscle memory.

this brings up something interesting i found out of habit

you can actually DFD/SSD on FT/CT and be fine usually; the root and animation lock is shorter than jump, so before your GCD is up you can readjust your positioning to hit that positional

so if you want to like absolutely solo destroy an open world mob by making sure your 4th hit positionals land, you can do something like

HT (BFB+BL) > ID (xpot) > Dis (IR+BoTD) > CT (SSD stun) > 4th (PS+GK) > PH (Jump) > TT (DFD) > VT (LS+LSW stun) > FT > 4th

[spelley]

this brings up something interesting i found out of habit

you can actually DFD/SSD on FT/CT and be fine usually; the root and animation lock is shorter than jump, so before your GCD is up you can readjust your positioning to hit that positional

so if you want to like absolutely solo destroy an open world mob by making sure your 4th hit positionals land, you can do something like

HT (BFB+BL) > ID (xpot) > Dis (IR+BoTD) > CT (SSD stun) > 4th (PS+GK) > PH (Jump) > TT (DFD) > VT (LS+LSW stun) > FT > 4th

Combine that with moving through the enemy during their own attack animations and you can maintain Blood of the Dragon pretty easily without DPS loss even soloing. I know I've killed 4-5 packs of mobs just walking through. Obviously not "this matters" content but the extra damage can really matter while you are leveling up I'm finding if you manage to get 3 mobs on you and need to kill them ASAP XD

[pandabearcat]

Hey Dervy when they release the first balance patch of 3.0 you better rename this thread to PARADIGM SHIFT.

Otherwise I won't forgive you.

Carry on, I have nothing else to add.

[spelley]

1.2k is what I predicted the second I found out about the i190 weapons and gear. The exact number was 1224 DPS without taking into consideration Crit Damage and DoTs Skillspeed buff.

I'm actually most curious about how this stacks up against other DPSes.

[PhalanxField]

Are you getting 8 or 9 skills under B4B? Or is it at least possible to get 9 while at 2.4GCD? I'm adjusting the B4B Timing Sheet to account for 3.0 changes, and the difference between 8 and 9 skills under B4B seems to be fairly substantial, but it looks really freakin tight.

[Dervy]

It's already adjusted to the new changes on my end with 9GCD BFBs. It's best to use it after HT in the opener, then use it right on cooldown, never hold it.

You should be able to achieve it with a 2.4GCD. If not, again, delay the usage of it by half a GCD. That's also why I go BL -> BFB. It forces you to use BFB later, getting that 9th hit in.

[whiskeybravo]

How does /chotbar work, do you just put it in a macro with chaos/fullthrust? I want to make controller play simpler :/

See here, kinda: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Stance-Dancing

Basically you would make a macro for (I'm not sure exactly what skill Gardes was referring to) some skill, perhaps Impulse Drive or True Thrust that would swap abilities present on your hotbar

So it would be something like:

/micon "Impulse Drive"
/ac "Impulse Drive" <t>
/chotbar set Disembowel [[position]]
/chotbar set "Chaos Thrust" [[position]]

Etc, Etc.. This allows you to change hotbar on the fly, less switching/fumbling around with hotbars. It's working great on War so far, I'll prolly try to clean up some other hotbars as well, it's pretty neat customization IMO.

[PhalanxField]

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Hmm, something was weird with TT on mine earlier, but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore, I have no idea what happened... Probably shouldn't do this and work at the same time.

Did you adjust your PH and CT potencies? Phleb duration went up, and I went ahead and removed 1 dot tick from CT since we're clipping it early every time (right?).

[Aiurily]

2 and maybe 3 ticks even of CT are clipped now yeah (only 3 if you have a lot of sksp, like around 2.35 or so maybe)

24s PH has pretty great potency, 2nd only to CT now (410). the only spot where you aren't gonna refresh PH is casting BFB right after it, so i try to avoid that