How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Thendiel]

30% increase to Jump would be a 260 potency attack, no? Still would be weaker than Full Thrust. I never used it on Jump unless a target is at like 1-2% and I just finished a combo, and Power Surge and Life Surge are both up, i'll stack them both on jump just to get a big hit. Or while doing atma books, I would just one shot mobs with PS+LS Jump then run to the next spawn(in the case of spawns that were spread out far).

I very rarely used Life Surge with Jump, either. But if Jump is buffed multiplicatively by both Power Surge and Blood of the Dragon, it will come to 200 x 1.50 x 1.30 = 390 base potency, which should outperform Full Thrust slightly. I still think that LS+FT would have been ideal to avoid cutting into the GCD timer, personally, but some were suggesting that PS+LS+J was going to be the optimum approach in 3.0. This change to Life Surge settles the issue, and means that we don't have to bother crunching numbers to weigh the two possibilities against each other.

Just occurred to me that Life Surge is back to being awkward. Not that we weren't going to have to rethink it, but if you have appreciable skill speed (and I suspect we'll probably want that now, so HT isn't always falling off momentarily), you will run into trouble trying to use it every other Full Thrust.

That might be true, but it's also worth mentioning that LS+Wheeling Thrust and LS+Fang and Claw might be viable substitutes for LS+Full Thrust, depending on how the timing works out. At 290 potency, they're substantially more comparable to Full Thrust than Chaos Thrust was. I could easily see, e.g., Life Surge becoming available immediately after a Full Thrust but before a Wheeling Thrust, in which case I'd presumably pop it for Wheeling.