How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[MiruWest]

Thanks, Dervy! Does ~1130 DPS with Eso weapon sans food/pots/party buff sound reasonable to you by the way? Just trying to see if I'm messing up anything.

You should be higher than that. Whats your ilvl?

[Leonus]

Thanks, Dervy! Does ~1130 DPS with Eso weapon sans food/pots/party buff sound reasonable to you by the way? Just trying to see if I'm messing up anything.

Should be closer to 1200 with broniac, no buffs I believe. I was at like 1170-1190 with hive weapon and no buffs.

How long are you parsing for?

[PaiiNx]

A3S required alot of ACC like 620/630 or more for front(need to hit sometime on front like A1).
Full prototype is like this
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/8024701/
Miss to much acc. Next week i swap the 180 ring with the 210 gordian(if doesnt drop) trading 4 page and using acc foods, is the only way for now.

[Grimm08]

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here, but I was doing a bit of number crunching with gear comparisons with stat weights and this is what I found, Assuming week 3 upgrade was weapon and week 4 was belt, with Cockatrice Meatball food.
Combined STR weight of:
1. Necklace week 4 and Helmet week 5: 1201.7
2. Chest Week 5: 1202.41
3. Legs Week 5: 1203.14

Personally, I'm going with option 3, it is only marginally better, but the full stats for the sets that week are:
1. STR: 968, ACC: 579, Crit: 585, Det: 487, SkS: 685
2. STR: 976, ACC: 679, Crit: 666, Det: 391, SkS: 617
3. STR: 968, ACC: 608, Crit: 692, Det: 437, SkS: 599

Again, this is all assuming you use Cockatrice Meatballs, alternative food choices change these statistics (obviously)

[Jonnycbad]

What's an optimal time to parse for?

[pandabearcat]

What's an optimal time to parse for?

Typically, right before your CDs line up again, for a realistic sustained dps parse. So like, 2 min 55 sec.

[whiskeybravo]

What's the sweet spot for using invigorate?

With minimal downtime it seems like Invig lines up well with BotD. I need it around the first time BotD comes off CD, and it lines up with every other BotD thereafter (60 sec/120 sec)

[Snoosky66]

How do you guys AOE in A2, if at all?

[spelley]

How do you guys AOE in A2, if at all?

Personally I just single target the primary targets (Jagds > Gobwalkers > Hardminds > Widows) and only then if mobs are left will I bother with AoE. While you technically output more DPS using AOE, getting those primary targets down is simply more important and has the benefit of not wrecking your TP ....and the BLMs and SMNs will usually be enough to rip up the small adds. That's just my opinion, though.

[BristolRuss]

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This is good info, thanks for that. I have a question though. Where does the chest piece fit in? Because I'm still only rocking the Asuran chest (my current build http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/R7IB ). Seeing as getting the Eso one would be a 20 ilvl increase would that put it infront of the belt?