How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[RapBreon]

*Intense sobbing sounds*

[ErzaScarlet77]

is he forum banned or entire game banned?
also RIP

[Thendiel]

is he forum banned or entire game banned?
also RIP

He is only forum banned.

[StrejdaTom]

RIP to anyone doing the best they can for people of same job.
OP I would stay away from adding screenshots displaying numbers in your thread, or you might get banned too.

[Judge_Xero]

RIP Dervy. May your numbers live on in Numerical Heaven...

[JackFross]

Assuming it IS accurate, I'm fairly sure this set is what we should be looking at for bis:
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/RL2T

Though my friend thinks 650 ss is too much and prefers this:
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/RL2V

Either way, looks like the Brionac is taking the crown for BiS spear. \o/
That was with me messing around a bit in my spreadsheet and being wholly unable to find any way to boost the stat weights while maintaining minimum 590 ss and 647 acc. Ariyala also spits that out if you set your minimum accuracy to 629 and adjust the stat weights (and then don't include food buffs). It doesn't calculate stats post-food for BiS calculations.

[SunnyHirose]

Either way, looks like the Brionac is taking the crown for BiS spear. \o/

Hmmm... hm.

The value of skill speed has been a real gadfly in my BiS-finding attempts. Weights are a decent indicator when the value is reasonably close to linear, but SS on DRG right now is anything but! So on this Brionac set you have ridiculous crit and skill speed (if my sim isn't totally busted, that's something like 1503 DPS with party buff and no potion if you can actually get the TP!), but the next best set I've come across (without trying yours) is much more conventional (1492) and doesn't even hit the soft caps, and I can't even remember what gearset's weights I found it with (something like .173 c / .143 d / 0.101 s) but that's not the weights corresponding to it.

Hopefully that clarifies why I intend to get off my butt and lean on a program instead of a spreadsheet once my group has A4S down....

e: your set gets a score of 1491 and your friend's set gets 1486 in the current version of my sim. Time to rub it in their face? I dunno man, it's just a simulation!

[JackFross]

Yeah, I wasn't trying to say "my set is best" I was saying "this is the highest weight (according to weights in this thread) I could find." I mostly like it because it has that nice, even 900 crit along with an even 650 ss. Both those numbers just *look* good, so it makes me wanna aim for it. I know sims aren't the end-all. I used a set back pre-3.0 that gave me 415 det with food because I loved the consistency despite it being strictly "worse" weight-wise than other sets by about 6-7. I'm probably going to end up doing something similar this time around, using one of these guys:
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/RL5W
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/RL5Y

Pretty nice, too, since the second one can be used before A4 is cleared with just 1 gobtwine (for the chest - 642 acc; 2 gets you to 647 with boots) without needing acc food for A4 progression.

[Ninjah2r]

Anyone know what the relic will be in terms of materia? I mean, do we need to stack up on crit IV's or something o.o

I'm not the richest around here so I'm really deciding wether to spend my money on leveling crafters or hold the money and buy crit iv's when 3.1 and the new relic line drops.

Can anyone give me any advice in this?

[Ninjah2r]

I doubt there will be a new Materia-based Relic Quest, since what i assume is that those who did the previous Relic Quest will be able to transfer its Stats over to the new one, to make it not worthless after all the Grind.
I'd personally save up my Gil and whatever Materia i still have laying around for the Patch to hit and then think about wherever to purchase or not, even if the price might be higher than before the Patch.
The final choice is up to you though, i just hope we will be able to transfer the stats of our previous Relic to the new one, otherwise i'll be mad about the useless grind i did back then for the Relic.

Thing is, I mained pld pre hw and have the pld relic... don't have the drg relic. So I really hope that the next relic will be easy in terms of grinding (not like the dungeon drops from arr, took me 53 sas hm runs lol)