How to Dragoon Per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Ilyanat]

Had a thought while looking at cross class skills. Obviously you want IR and mercy for extra damage, but after that your choice is solely for defensive cd's which becomes sort of dubious. Foresight or mantra? Up to you, but I'm looking at bloodbath and wondering if it's really worth it. Generally if I pop bloodbath, the healer has got me and yes I'm using it to make his life easier theoretically, but usually it just means I'm overhealing the damage he's already repaired. I've been sticking with mantra/second wind/bloodbath for some time now but now I'm not so sure. Bloodbath is 90s CD while foresight is 120s, only a 30s difference but I'm kinda curious on which has better mitigation potential, I've seen Thendiel recommend using bloodbath "proactively" rather than say immediately after taking damage, but it still seems strange to me as bloodbath doesn't seem to heal that much from my pov. Any thoughts or am I just being stupid and should keep bloodbath on my bar?

[Greyfrost]

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Bloodbath doesn't heal that much for me either, but it's enough if you need to solo adds with you tanking it and not letting your healer keep an eye on you.

I couple up bloodbath with skills like Keen Flurry (Yes, I know this skill is bad) and or Foresight (I don't have mantra yet) and then if I'm still missing some chunk of hp, I continue with second wind while moving to the boss to continue poking it xD.

I might be wrong on how-2-crossclass though...