How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Thendiel]

Thanks for spotting my error! Not sure how I ended up with that number, exactly, but I've corrected my post.

I've been looking at the Cooldown alignment doc I'm working on and your analysis brought up something interesting for me. On the second Life Surge, you're using it on a 4th after FT. However, if you hold it for 5 GCDs to land it on your next 4th after CT, this 4th is buffed by a Blood for Blood.

So, if we're withholding this for an additional 5 GCDs:

Over the course of 75 GCDs, we get x1 Ft, x1 4th and x1 BFB 4th.

That's 203.79 + 164.17 + (164.17*1.3) = 581.381 potency.

581.381/75 = 7.751746666666667 / 2.4 = 3.229894444444444

So maybe there's some merit on holding Life Surge and/or other cooldowns and use them together?

Interesting. It sounds like what you're proposing is:

HT - ID - Dis - CT - 4th
Phleb - TT - VT -[use Life Surge]- FT - 4th
HT - ID - Dis - CT - 4th
Phleb - TT - VT - FT - 4th
HT - ID - Dis - CT - 4th
Phleb - TT - VT - FT -[Life Surge becomes available]- 4th
HT - ID - Dis - CT -[use Life Surge]- 4th
Phleb - TT - VT - FT - 4th
HT - ID - Dis - CT - 4th
Phleb - TT - VT - FT - 4th
(entire pattern repeats)

...which is identical in the long-run to my "second" approach (one LS+FT and one LS+4th per 50 GCDs), except with slightly adjusted timing in order to allow for better BFB synchronization. If that works the way you describe, then it's probably optimum, given that there's only a 0.04 PPS difference between it and my recommendation without accounting for BFB.