How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[JackFross]

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You missed the discussions where all of these were brought up.

That was pretty much the consensus, but the damage differentials were all decided among most/all of us to be so small/negligible that they just sorta don't matter. The set that's attributed to me is the "technical" best in slot based solely on stat weights. Dervy's is a more consistent version (more det at the cost of ss and crit) of mine, and the other set is low on ss but technically higher weight than either of the others.

It's hard to settle on one set as being "best" when you're looking at numbers on the scale of 1500 and seriously coming in to say that one set will give you +30 dps over another. That +30 dps is literally one dropped Blood. It's one flubbed Wash Away backflip. It's not something that I feel comfortable saying definitively one way or the other, especially when people have pings such that 606 ss isn't enough for them to get 3 GSK per minute and other people who find 700 ss to just be unwieldy because of how fast you become.


The discussion of best in slot this patch is a lot more nuanced than just "which set is definitively the best" because that question doesn't exactly have an answer that is very satisfying, due to the way the different stats work and play with each other and the person using them.

I mean, this is the set that I'm personally building for, which is Dervy's set with the weapon swapped. It's weaker, yes, but I much prefer the grace I get from higher skill speed; it gives ME higher gains in the long run because I end up less self-conscious about losing Blood to a Geirskogul or two and end up actually squeezing them out.


That said, what set are you referencing? FFXIVGuild's?


///Oh, it's the same as mine but with 700 accuracy? That's silly. The det/ss is strictly better than the acc/crit. There's no question to be had there. There's not near enough crit to make up for the gains you get from the other secondaries. Otherwise, you're telling me that the raw difference in damage power between 30 crit and 29 determination is more powerful than the gains from 44 skill speed. I don't think that's something that should even be in question. There's no way that's the case.