How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Zeviand]

Think the only thing I'd focus on upgrading would be wrists, skill speed ring and maybe boots with less acc, and a ton of crit. Other than that, our i210 pieces are pretty much ideal if you're looking to stack crit and hit the skills speed "sweet spot". I'd just focus on reducing accuracy to 647 with food and 590ish SS with more crit/det.

Don't think I've seen a diadem piece that exceeds the overall amount of of secondary stats per piece, and far too many pieces that don't even come close to the total number of secondary stats the 210 gear has.

[Jonnycbad]

Is Battle Litany additive or multiplicative?

If your base crit chance% is 13%, would Battle Litany increase it to 14.3%, or would it add a straight up +15% making your base crit chance% 28%?....or does it add +15% to the "Critical Hit Rate" stat like gear...

[Sleigh]

It is additive.

[JackFross]

It adds to your critical hit chance. It doesn't boost the amount of damage your critical hits do. If you have a base crit chance of 13%, your critical hits will do ~153% damage. With Internal Release, you rise to 23% crit rate. Battle Litany gets you to 28%. Both together jump you to 38%. Regardless which of those buffs you have on, your crit damage will still be 153%.

[Hawkesm]

Is the 210 belt better?
210: Str 47, Vit 49, SS 36
190: Str 40, Vir 40, Acu 36, Det 24

If i understand the stat weight correctly, main stat is about 7 times better than other stats. This means 210 gear (Diadem) should be better than 200 and below since it has more main stat, right?

[Hakmatic]

210 unless you need that acc on the 190 belt.

[JackFross]

Is the 210 belt better?
210: Str 47, Vit 49, SS 36
190: Str 40, Vir 40, Acu 36, Det 24

If i understand the stat weight correctly, main stat is about 7 times better than other stats. This means 210 gear (Diadem) should be better than 200 and below since it has more main stat, right?

210: 47 STR | 49 VIT | 44 ACC | 30 SKS
200: 43 STR | 43 VIT | 38 DET | 28 CRT

200 Eso is way better than 210 Gordian, unless you need the ACC from the Gordian belt. It's not a strict rule of which one's better, item-level-wise, for 200 v 210. There's a few places where similar things happen, such as the Void Ark boots being higher weight than either 210 piece or 200 eso pants being worthwhile over the 210 Gordian pants. All of these cases assume you have enough Accuracy to use the 0-accuracy 200 piece, but yeah.

When comparing 210 v 190, though, the main stat gain is more than likely gonna kick the pants off whatever secondaries are on the 190, regardless of secondaries on the 210. The only places you might run into issue is when you're comparing a really good 190 piece (Alex chest) v a really shitty 210 Diadem piece in the same slot.

[Yesui]

We did it boys http://puu.sh/ltaze/b09fd75593.jpg

[Meow9000]

Can anybody recommend any videos of drgs pushing max dps on a fight (not dummy). Any fight, Ravana ex thordan Alexander normal or savage whatever. I'm relatively new to DRG. Only i193 but I do much better with visual demonstrations when it comes to picking up good habits and rotation etc etc. I see fflogs of drgs pushing 1500-1700 dps which sounds insane but I'd love to see how it's done

[ColdestHeaven]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DLTP0wBKyA

This video is about Ravana, however most of Dervy's suggestions (aside from the "muh dps" ones, albeit funny) can be applied to other fights too.