How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[ryuuken]

Estimated DPS gain from esoterics head: 20.66247
Estimated DPS gain from esoterics belt: 18.16585
Estimated DPS gain from esoterics legs: 17.73386
Estimated DPS gain from esoterics head + belt: 38.91160

Because you already have 210 pants, it will be a while before esoterics legs give you the best DPS increase per tomestone.

That's kind of what I figured, didn't really bother to math it out but figured I'd have more immediate gains by picking up other pieces instead of side-grade pants (regardless of the benefit of secondary stats and dumping accuracy by switching legs).

I think I'll end up doing head (unless the Gordian one drops this week or something), belt, and then either neck or wait for pants at that point. Thanksssss.

[Ninjah2r]

Can someone give me any tips/feedbacks on my rotation?

I'm trying to improve with the tips I got back in Dervy's topic, but I can't seem to break that stupid 1300 dps mark. currently at ilvl194 with every i200 leftside except for the belt that is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaHNNFi1YTI

[enil]

Can someone give me any tips/feedbacks on my rotation?

I'm trying to improve with the tips I got back in Dervy's topic, but I can't seem to break that stupid 1300 dps mark. currently at ilvl194 with every i200 leftside except for the belt that is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaHNNFi1YTI

DRG rotation isn't that hard on a dummy - there's not too much more you can be doing.
Not all your gear is optimal either, some people will also parse using food/pots/party buff any of these would probably put you over 1.3k

[Ninjah2r]

DRG rotation isn't that hard on a dummy - there's not too much more you can be doing.
Not all your gear is optimal either, some people will also parse using food/pots/party buff any of these would probably put you over 1.3k

Yeah true that, but Dervy said that 1300 should be doable on 193 and you should aim for 1320+ on i195 (without all the buffs and stuff) but I can't really break the damn thing. Funny thing is, whenever I parse with the partybuff, my dps stays the same which I find very very weird. So either I am fucking up bigtime, or I just can't do anything about that latency issue with blood (2 GK per 1 b4b is very difficult on eu servers :c)

[Thendiel]

Can someone give me any tips/feedbacks on my rotation?

I'm trying to improve with the tips I got back in Dervy's topic, but I can't seem to break that stupid 1300 dps mark. currently at ilvl194 with every i200 leftside except for the belt that is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaHNNFi1YTI

A few observations:

• If you're going with a non-potion opener, use IR+BotD before Chaos Thrust, rather than before Disembowel, to give yourself more Geirskogul flexibility. That said, this won't ultimately affect your DPS.
• At about 1:25, you use Geirskogul + Spineshatter Dive between GCDs. This eats past your GCD timer very substantially, and it actually ends up costing you a BFB-buffed Geirskogul, as well.
• You could have used Life Surge before Fang and Claw at the 2:02 mark. On the other hand, you wouldn't normally pair Life Surge with that particular 4th combo hit in the rotation--that's another consequence of the GK+SSD delay at 1:25.
• You hold off on Leg Sweep from about 2:05 to 2:22, which is a pretty huge delay. You had plenty of opportunities to use the skill. While Leg Sweep is pretty low-potency, it's actually a very substantial source of DPS output overall, given how frequently it can be used.
• At about 2:50, you use Phlebotomize instead of Heavy Thrust. That's going to result in a pretty huge DPS loss.

Hope that helps.

[Ninjah2r]

Alright, thanks I'll work on it a bit more, and will let you guys know with the progress that I'm making. It just seems so easy when either you or dervy parse for 1300 dps at like i193, but it's quite annoying when you're just not breaking that mark there XD

Thanks for replying guys

[SunnyHirose]

For what it's worth, I plugged your stats into my gear scorer and it looks to me like you'd have a hard time hitting 1300 unless you stopped at 3 minutes.

[Ninjah2r]

It worked somehow, thanks guys XD

Got 1308 at 3:01 now. ty!

[Ninjah2r]

For what it's worth, I plugged your stats into my gear scorer and it looks to me like you'd have a hard time hitting 1300 unless you stopped at 3 minutes.

hmm so does that mean that after 3 minutes my dps would go down too fast? If so, what gear should I be using (saw the bis on ariyala in our previous topic). Thing is, we're not progressing at all with savage so I can't get those items unless everyone from my static is on/ready to roll :c

[SunnyHirose]

It means you'd have just ended a Blood for Blood, therefore doing above your average. If you did a 12-minute parse somehow, you'd see something more like ~1275ish (formulas not completely accurate).