How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[whiskeybravo]

All of the advice on this thread for Thordan has been very good. Here is a video of a strong clear of mine, if it's any help, although my recording quality is poor and I have not included any audio commentary.

My eyes xD

Thanks for that vid Thendiel I pretty much stopped raiding a few months ago but am getting back into things again. Always great to have a good drg perspective

[PhalanxField]

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Looks more like data-collection differences to me. I'm not sure what the (T:X, C:Y%) business is (ticks and crits? can't be), but I would guess you're using Simulated DoTs and he's not, which is causing strange variations.

[JackFross]

Looks more like data-collection differences to me. I'm not sure what the (T:X, C:Y%) business is (ticks and crits? can't be), but I would guess you're using Simulated DoTs and he's not, which is causing strange variations.

I went and gave it a look. All of the dragoons (possibly other classes) with dates around Nov 10-11 area have the same issue with higher-than-normal dot ticks, resulting in padded parses. Must have been during the time ACT was messed up with dot recording. Not sure why fflogs is allowing them to be added now, though.

[Aquaslash]

Sorry to derail for basic nonsense, but is there an efficient way of doing aoe damage on big pulls? Spamming HT/RoT seems a bit wasteful, yet single targeting everything and hoping for meaty crits on WT/FaC/GK/DfD seems to be a slow burn.

[JackFross]

On the biggest pulls, I get the best results out of something like:
HT>[IR+B4B]>RoT>[DFD]>DS spam

If your other DPS is good, I'll also use BotD and a Geirskogul during the b4b/ir and BL if you wanna pop it.

Usually I'll stop at around 500 TP after using 1 invig and then cycle into HT>CT>CT combos, no phleb, using ~4 gsk per minute to clear whatever's left.

Haven't run the numbers, but it depends how your other DPS is. If they're good, DS spam is the way to go. If they're not, using HT>CT>CT combos is the way to go, because TP will last longer and your dps won't really be too much different in an extended pull, even compared to the insane burst from DS spam.

[raela]

I've got no...tool that must not be named cause of being a PS4 player, but is there a point when I know that I've legitimately "got gud"?

Also how do you guys go about keeping a constant supply of pots and food? All the HQ stuff just annihilates my eternally limited funds

I have my crafters all at 60 with HQ white 60 sets, no melds. Mats are cheap as dirt for flint caviar/xpots of strength, and crafting rotation for HQ is stupid easy. Takes maybe 10 minutes to make 2 weeks worth of pots/food.

[whiskeybravo]

I went and gave it a look. All of the dragoons (possibly other classes) with dates around Nov 10-11 area have the same issue with higher-than-normal dot ticks, resulting in padded parses. Must have been during the time ACT was messed up with dot recording. Not sure why fflogs is allowing them to be added now, though.

I thought this was interesting (back on 11/13): https://www.bluegartr.com/threads/12...=1#post6568616

There's some issue with the ACT plugin regarding DoT/HoT, so the ranking for 3.1 has been suspended until it gets resolved.

[JackFross]

Yeah I remembered that happening, but the uploader blocked me from adding any parses from that period when I initially tried. It's kinda weird that they're just letting them up now.

[Aquaslash]

I have my crafters all at 60 with HQ white 60 sets, no melds. Mats are cheap as dirt for flint caviar/xpots of strength, and crafting rotation for HQ is stupid easy. Takes maybe 10 minutes to make 2 weeks worth of pots/food.

I've barely begun to even touch crafting, but I kinda figured it would come to this

[Ninjah2r]

Thordan strat

I'm trying everything you say, (except I don't use cooldowns during meteors, other than that, I try to max out everything, BOTD usage, GK's (545 ss at i203 so that sucks :c) but I seem not to get any higher than 900-910 dps lmao. I have the i205 spear. I'm still struggling to stay alive during the fight because I wasn't present at day 1 when my static raided so I didn't get as much trying as they had and I die naturally.

But it demotivates me quickly lol, seeing all those monk/mch/whatever is in my party, end up with like 1000+ dps rofl.