How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[SunnyHirose]

I wonder how it's spelled in JP. I'm guessing Gaisukogu or Gaisukoguru, probably the latter.

ゲイルスコグル (geirusukoguru)

[spelley]

Gehr-Es-Ko-Gull

[siverstorm]

"The Geiger Counter ability"

[ColdestHeaven]

Laser beam.

[TheKingSlayer]

My healer calls it "Dragon Shot"

[ChaozK]

Must resist urge to make a text macro

[Neyka]

Ravana tips...

Great information in this thread!

Dervy, can you add a section to the beginning of the thread to cover fight specific tips like you and Aurily posted? Will make it much easier to find and refer to.

[Hakmatic]

@Dervy, so I been lvling my Dragoon, do I CT combo after the first full thurst combo, even though those dots are buffed up stronk. I understand thats it FT combo, CT combo, repeat now, correct?

[seekified]

@Dervy, so I been lvling my Dragoon, do I CT combo after the first full thurst combo, even though those dots are buffed up stronk. I understand thats it FT combo, CT combo, repeat now, correct?

At your level, you can do the full rotation. Looking at Dervy's initial post:

H -> IDC4 -> P -> TTT4 -> Repeat

Let's break this down. Both Heavy Thrust and Phlebotomize has a duration of 24 seconds. With a Global Cooldown of 2.4s, 24/2.4 = 10. So this means you can fit 10 GCDs in between each of your Phlebotomzie and Heavy Thrusts.

IDC4 = 4 GCDs
TTT4 = 4 GCDs
P = 1 GCD
That's 1 GCD left over, which can be used to keep a fully buffed Heavy Thrust up. This also means you have no downtime on Heavy Thrust, giving you a full 15% damage boost to your DPS.

The same applies to Phlebotomize:
IDC4 = 4 GCDs
TTT4 = 4 GCDs
H = 1 GCD
This means you will never lose HT, nor clip a Phlebotomize tick at 2.4 GCD.

You will clip Disembowel and CT by a few seconds, but it's much better than doing another TTT combo like in the old rotation and thus drop Dis and CT completely before you have time to get them back up.

[RachaelMarie22]

Had a go at ravana ex last night, hit a problem with the first seeing whatever, if it's left or right my group are asking me to hold back cause my tank can't hit front and I'm ripping aggro..doesn't feel good not being able to ham the burst out..