How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[JackFross]

That brings us to the other point naturally: It's not just the enrage timer you're racing; you're racing all the timers all the time! You don't need a full extra GCD to jam the last hit into a narrow window. Losing (for example) BotD at the last second due to things going slightly off is... well, maybe not catastrophic but it's not great.

I think this is the major point Relia was overlooking. Yeah, you need 108 continuous gcds to get 109 instead in the exact same time, but the bonus of 58 sks gains you 0.021s (about) every single time you hit your gcd over what the person with 58 less gets. This could be the difference between +1 gcd here and there throughout the course of the fight. You don't need to finish that 109th gcd for it to be noticed that you got an extra hit. That's just the time that you'll see DRG A hit gcd 108 0.021s before DRG B hits gcd 109, and both those gcds reset at exactly the same time. It's FAR less than that before you will effectively gain an extra hit. If your sks is too low, for instance, you'll get one fewer GCD in phase 1 of A3S and have to end with Impulse Drive rather than Disembowel, since the latter won't drop its debuff on the mob. That phase is 56 seconds long. Not 4:18. Similarly, lower sks means you'll have to hold your second Jump for after the sluice puddles; that extra 58 sks gives you about 0.1s of bonus buffer on the reset timer for Jump, which is significant when looking at such a tight timing.

That said, I definitely see the merit in both sides; det is more consistent, sks is more situational.


But I'm gonna defend to the death that if you have a gobtwine and your [head, chest, or pants] and [boots] are i200 AND you own the Gordian Sabatons of Maiming, you're throwing your twine away if you upgrade the boots. You're also taking a substantial hit to your damage if you wear the 200 boots over the 210 Gordian ones, because 35 det in no way is gonna make up 5 strength in addition to the potential bonus utility of 58 sks. Which is all I was trying to imply in my initial post on this topic.