How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[CookieMonsta]

{sigh} the only way this 275 Alex weapon could be any worse was if it stole my money and killed my dog

[Krindor]

{sigh} the only way this 275 Alex weapon could be any worse was if it stole my money and killed my dog

It could be SS > Det instead of Det > SS

[Bourne_Endeavor]

For who have experimented, is it worth going into extreme SkS territory? With specific gear upgrades, I could push 761 without food. Just curious if that crosses past the "dead zone" on DRG. Drawing examples from here.

[Estelle9lives]

I’m currently working on A12S and was wondering if you guys have some optimization tips.

As of now, this is what I’m doing:
- Default rotation until Alexander vanishes (skip DFD)
- Heavy Thrust into RoT to clip 4 adds, while tank positions all adds together
- Doom Spike + IR into Geirskogul on all 8 adds. Here I wait until I have my 2nd B4B up before I use the DFD I saved earlier for max padding inbetween Doom Spikes, while also using BOTD with the sole purpose of firing another Geirskogul
- For the 4 cardinal adds, I just do TTT combo with OGCDs inbetween. They seem to die so fast that CT combo doesn’t seem to be worth it.
- Regular rotation on the two big adds.

Then it gets tricky. I hate Stasis with the passion of a thousand suns. The only way I found to be able to keep BOTD is by skipping Phleb during the opener I do when Alexander respawns. Between moving to Stasis and having to dodge a sacrament (specially regular sacrament), there’s just no time to keep BOTD without playing EXTREMELY risky and risking dying or skipping the Phleb. What do you guys do during that? I’m wondering if I should stick with regular rotation and just blow BOTD on a Geirskogul, or skip the Phleb to keep BOTD.

[mosaicex]

I’m currently working on A12S and was wondering if you guys have some optimization tips.

As of now, this is what I’m doing:
- Default rotation until Alexander vanishes (skip DFD)
- Heavy Thrust into RoT to clip 4 adds, while tank positions all adds together
- Doom Spike + IR into Geirskogul on all 8 adds. Here I wait until I have my 2nd B4B up before I use the DFD I saved earlier for max padding inbetween Doom Spikes, while also using BOTD with the sole purpose of firing another Geirskogul
- For the 4 cardinal adds, I just do TTT combo with OGCDs inbetween. They seem to die so fast that CT combo doesn’t seem to be worth it.
- Regular rotation on the two big adds.

Then it gets tricky. I hate Stasis with the passion of a thousand suns. The only way I found to be able to keep BOTD is by skipping Phleb during the opener I do when Alexander respawns. Between moving to Stasis and having to dodge a sacrament (specially regular sacrament), there’s just no time to keep BOTD without playing EXTREMELY risky and risking dying or skipping the Phleb. What do you guys do during that? I’m wondering if I should stick with regular rotation and just blow BOTD on a Geirskogul, or skip the Phleb to keep BOTD.

For adds, I skipped Phlebotomize so I can go straight with TT > VT (Alex usually disappear here), then use FT on one of the adds, continue with 4th on another. Now I have around 24 sec on BotD so I go HT > Geir on all adds > RoT > DS until Geir come off cooldown the use it.

I don't have problem with Stasis. When Stasis happened I'm ALWAYS on the 4th combo proc with normal opening rotation (save Spineshatter for gap closer), what's your GCD? This does not disappear since it's a buff. Then I just jump back to Alex to continue DPSing.

[Wegente]

What do you guys do during that? I’m wondering if I should stick with regular rotation and just blow BOTD on a Geirskogul, or skip the Phleb to keep BOTD.

What I do is use Spineshatter Dive as part of the opener and skip the Phlebotomize. Then while I'm running to my position I do a single Piercing Talon trying to make up for the dps loss. But skipping the Spineshatter Dive and using Phlebotomize is probably the most optimal way of doing it between the two.

A third way would be to do the complete opener with Spineshatter Dive AND Phlebotomize, and then using Elusive Jump to go back to the boss quickly after the Time Stasis ends. But I generally use it in the add phase, so it's not up at that moment.

[TheKingSlayer]

Then it gets tricky. I hate Stasis.... BOTD is by skipping Phleb during the opener .... dodge a sacrament (specially regular sacrament), there’s just no time to keep BOTD without playing EXTREMELY risky and risking dying or skipping the Phleb. What do you guys do during that?

For the stasis part, I've found you can do the full rotation with phleb, Full thrust, popping a Geirk, and keeping your BotD buff, but you need to save a DFD or SSD. The key is to move when the cast bar hits the "St" of "Temporal Stasis." I have just enough time to make it to my cardinal direction before I freeze. I am now frozen with 3-5 secs left on BoTD and my 4th combo prepped. I SSD or DFD back to Alex, hit the 4th combo while dodging gravitational, and prepping for sacrament.

Second Stasis same thing, but I use Back flip instead of a jump... its a little more tricky to aim so be careful on this one.

[Shenjiro]

I was cheking the item weight of some items and i ended up finding something cool (i think), the 'Teak Choker of Slaying' pentamelded (Crit V x1 / Crit IV x4) end up with 96 points of item weight, i think that make it the best necklace, even better than Alexandrian (89) & Shire (91)?

[aleph_null]

Yes but you're also losing 42-59 accuracy, which means that you need to make up for that loss somewhere else.

[Spayd]

Then it gets tricky. I hate Stasis with the passion of a thousand suns. The only way I found to be able to keep BOTD is by skipping Phleb during the opener I do when Alexander respawns. Between moving to Stasis and having to dodge a sacrament (specially regular sacrament), there’s just no time to keep BOTD without playing EXTREMELY risky and risking dying or skipping the Phleb. What do you guys do during that? I’m wondering if I should stick with regular rotation and just blow BOTD on a Geirskogul, or skip the Phleb to keep BOTD.

I do usual opener for first stasis, but i dont use Geirskogul and spineshatter dive. Right after full thrust, i elusive jump to my position, have the stasis happen, watch where the gravitational pops as I SpineShatter dive back right on boss. Allows you to maintain everything. Havent tried too much with Geirskoguling during the opener tho, maybe I could pop it and still be fine, ill try it out tonight.