How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[pandabearcat]

Yea the sim uses very unforgiving timings - I set GCD skill delay to 1 second and I believe oGCD delays are also 1 second, so any attempt to fit 2 (esp during opener) is going to leave a lot of delays.

If we have more data on how the delays actually function (esp jump delays - those were set to be very long iirc, from 2.5 days) then we can make the sim more accurate.

I will try to release a quick release w/o any revamp (since that introduced some bugs) that just has the jump fix so that you guys can do more accurate tests (iirc jump fix results in ~20-25 dps increase).

However you won't be able to "on the fly" tweak skill delays until I finish the skill system revamp which will likely take till next week.

I am glad you guys have played around with the sim and are writing better rotations.

I'm glad you guys found the reason behind the sks thing - if it was not clipping dots initially then getting to the point where it no longer needs to will end up being a huge breakpoint.

I was tempted to create another experimental setting "Incremental Stat" where it increments a stat from X to Y and gives you dps rankings every 5 stat or so. Should be easy to see jumps with that.

But the main plan is so that other people can write that logic for me - the UI should be simple to write your own code for once I get the documentation finished.

[enil]

If we have more data on how the delays actually function (esp jump delays - those were set to be very long iirc, from 2.5 days) then we can make the sim more accurate.

Problem is delays are very ping/latency dependant, someone who averages 150-200ms (me) will experience something significantly different from someone running 50-100ms.

Best to get someone with as low as ping as possible to get the base ability wind up/wind down and possibly implement some kind of latency variable (is this something we care about? - or we are just after pure theory).