How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Estelle9lives]

For the raiding DRGs out there, do you guys have any tips for optimizing in A1S Opressor?

I'm currently ranging between 930-940 DPS and I'm not satisfied at all, still far too low. The biggest issue I have is concerning the Alarum adds... Boss rotation goes Emergency Deployment > Resin Bomb > Huge laser. For one, I need to wait until Resin drops to go to my laser, and if it's in a bad spot, I have to move YET AGAIN to dodge the boss aoe, then go back to my laser and kill the add. I feel this takes me forever to do, and to top it off I can't hit positionals on the add at all. It doesn't get much better from there as Opressor immediately repeat that rotation after the first jump.

I'm thinking about trying to grab my add with a Geirskogul and keep full uptime on the boss until big laser goes off, but I don't know... That could be risky if I don't kill my add in time.

[TheKingSlayer]

I'm thinking about trying to grab my add with a Geirskogul and keep full uptime on the boss until big laser goes off, but I don't know... That could be risky if I don't kill my add in time.

I ve been finishing my combo on the Oppressor because Im usually on the fourth part of my combo when the adds come out (refresh dat BotD). I then Phelb the add because I know I will be moving and the dots still tick. While Resin is happening and the add is catching up with me I'll throw a spear or two, refresh HT when it gets to me, start my combo TTT4 combo, and that is usually enough to kill it. If I am lined up properly, I'll sometimes throw Geirk in as the last hit.

[Dunncan]

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In my group, me and my tank always stack for resin on the left side of the boss within melee range. As it's already expected, what I do is hit my add once as it spawns and move to where we'll stack, stil hiting the boss, só I wont kill my add too soon. As soon the resin AoE goes off, I'll just move to the laser, plenty of time to kill the add. Everything is just fast and clean, and I stil have one flank and the boss rear to hit positionals. The only exception is when the laser spawn right where we usually stack. In that case, we stack on the right side of the boss for resin.