How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Dervy]

You keep mentioning 2.5GCD. I don't really know why you're so fixated about it. You mentioned that a good Dragon will hold Geirskogul due to mechanics in boss fights (which we agree) and that we should hold Geirskogul for a few more cycles so we can keep BotD up... Then you state that there's a mandatory check for Geirskogul usage at 2.5GCD.

Using the rotation at 2.5GCD, according to you, requires a lot more strict usage of Geirskogul, which makes it incapable of being used in certain fights, especially Ravana EX and Bismarck EX, where it's necessary to hold Geirskogul for phases. Moon Naga phase and Liberation are two mechanics which comes into mind in Ravana EX where you HAVE to hold Geirskogul otherwise you'll lose BotD.

Not only this, Ravana EX has a mechanic called "The Seeing X", where he parries all physical attacks in the position where "X" was, for 4s. It just so happens that the first "The Seeing" comes at 10s. At a GCD of 2.4 and attacking Ravana at the same time of your tank allows you to fit in the "4th" positional without getting RNG'd by The Seeing X. At 2.5GCD, you will not have that luxury and will have to move, not hitting your positional and taking a 190 potency hit MULTIPLE times throughout the fight.

You're being severely handicapped at 2.5 GCD from an End-Game perspective, trust me on this and I'm positive other Dragoons who are up to Ravana EX can agree with me on this.

And if you read the post correctly, I even showed you the math that 2.4GCD yields a higher PPS than 2.5GCD and that's hitting all HT's. It amounts to around 0.3 PPS loss each time you miss an HT. That sounds like nothing, but over the duration of a battle that lasts upwards of 10-15 minutes? It all adds up.