How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Thendiel]

Well, from reading other tooltips, I'm pretty sure it works the reasonable way: you're playing a game of keep-up just like some of the other jobs are.

I think it's a game of keep-up, but one in which you're trading off between Blood of the Dragon maintenance and Geirskogul use. It looks like we'll end up using Fang & Claw or Wheeling Thrust every 4-5 GCDs, which means that we gain +15 seconds of BotD every 10-12.5 seconds or so. That surplus BotD can periodically be translated into off-GCD damage through Geirskogul, but the more often you do this, the greater the risk that you will lose Blood of the Dragon.

Seems like an interesting risk-reward scenario. Average dragoons can play it conservatively and rarely use Geirskogul, while top-tier dragoons will pop it as often as possible, even if doing so means letting BotD drop to 1-2 seconds (or letting it fall off entirely if the BotD cooldown itself is available again).