How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[JackFross]

I'm guilty of exactly that, Thendiel. I had my one set that worked for T13 and I used it for everything at all times, never bothering to swap gear around when running lower content. It just felt like a "waste of time" (I know it isn't) to bother with, so I just stuck with it and ran my 535 acc everywhere. xD

I'm also one of those people who did this, even though it wasn't necessarily out of my realm of possibility to get the Savage Aims. I built my unique 415 det / 535 acc (I didn't care about and don't remember the other stats on it anymore) set and was content to use it everywhere.


Also~ I use my SSD after True Thrust in the opener and it's back up for Wash Away. Using it before is definitely safer, but I personally haven't had issues doing it the "optimal" way, yet. I DID encounter an issue with another group because their lack of countdown before the pull was awful and I hated it.

[rickyguo]

alright I got the 900 crit 650 ss bis set. The manifesto pages this tier made gearing up insanely easier than the rng tier last time. I probably won't raid anymore until closer to the next raid tier or something. Will make an exception and raid with a group that has a cute british girl, hello.

[Aiurily]

i wanted to hear about your drop rate with spears this tier too...

[Orlandeu]

alright I got the 900 crit 650 ss bis set. The manifesto pages this tier made gearing up insanely easier than the rng tier last time. I probably won't raid anymore until closer to the next raid tier or something. Will make an exception and raid with a group that has a cute british girl, hello.

Hello I'm cute British gril. Send me n00dz

[Hakmatic]

Finally a 210 weapon boiz. Ready for tomorrow!

[Thendiel]

Finally a 210 weapon boiz. Ready for tomorrow!

Make that spear sing, Hak. T_T 7

(P.S. - record vidz?)

[Hakmatic]

Yeah I can do some streaming tonight and save vid. We raid at 10 est, if anyone wants to tune in you can guess my twitch channel pretty easy , don't know if it's allowed to post that here so I'll just not do that.

[JackFross]

I'm still struggling really hard to figure out how it's possible to squeeze out 100 more dps in Phases 1 and 2 combined to hit 1450 going into adds. Unless using a potion and NOT holding b4b for EC are all that's needed to do that? Would that be an extra 100 dps? These were the parses from my group going into add phase from last night.
http://imgur.com/a/fYnDb

My rotation for each of these was (more or less):
HT>[BL+B4B]>ID>[IR]>[BotD]>CT>[Leg+PS]>4th>[Jump]>Ph>[DfD]>TT>[SSD]>VT>[LS+gsk]>FT>4th>HT>ID>Dis>[Leg]>CT>4th>[gsk]>Ph>TT>VT>[Jump]>FT>4th>[gsk]>HT>[Leg]>ID>ID>{ID}>Phase (was always around 1500 here)

>Dis>CT>[IR]>HT>TT>[Leg+PS]>VT>[LS+BotD]>FT>[Jump]>[SSD]>4th>Ph>ID>Dis>[gsk]>CT>4th>HT>TT>VT>FT>4th>Ph>[Jump cancel]
[Living Liquid]>ID>Dis>CT>4th>[gsk]>[IR]>HT>ID>
[Liquid Limb]>Dis>CT>4th>HT>[B4B]>ID>
[EC target]>Dis>[gsk+BotD]>CT>[Leg+PS]>4th>[Jump]>TT>[SSD]>VT>[LS+gsk]>FT>[DfD]>4th>TT>ID>Dis>CT>4th>[gsk]>
[Other target]>ID>Dis>[Jump]>CT>4th>[gsk]

I might have missed 1-2 Leg Sweeps in there.

Last gsk didn't always go off, sometimes I forgot gsk 2 in phase 1. I end up getting 2-3 gsk on double hand, depending how quickly they pull them apart for Fist. Some of the runs also had it go Fist>Fist instead of Hand>Fist, but that just made me not double-dot; I'd use FT (with Life Surge) on the main hand, follow back to mid and drop CT on the opposite hand during Digititis, continuing from EC after that. Didn't really seem to impact much at all. (Those runs were the ones where the SMN is sub-1200)

Is there something there I'm doing markedly wrong/can improve upon to get up higher, or am I just "low" due to lack of Potion and holding B4B?

PS: Current gear that I was using for that fight.

[Bloodborn8]

>ID>ID>{ID}>Phase (was always around 1500 here)

Just use the disembowel and pick up the next phase w/ CT > Ph > TTT4 and after wash away start the regular rotation w/ HT - BoTD back up right before FT. This lets you have a Dis queued up after 2nd wash away. Here I just Dis-CT-4th-Ph the closest one then elusive to do the same to the other hand.

For the GSKs, you should be able to get 3-4 on both hands based on fist/slap. Then the 5th usually isn't on double for me. Total of 10 GSKs before both hands go invuln the past few weeks I've cleared A3S.

I didn't get all 10 GSKs in this parse because I was a little trigger happy, but the highlight I'll link below is from last night when I went into A3S to help out Thendiel's group. I think it's a good demonstration of how I normally try to do the opening and hand phase. Typically results vary between 1420-1460 at the conclusion of hand phase. I certainly can be better.

http://www.twitch.tv/bloodborn8/v/18653497

[Hakmatic]

Well the stream I did tuesday I never got my 5 on double hands cause we sucked really bad from some reason, but I was able to be at 1560 going into adds with my wep. Prolly can get that to 1600 now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teXgROMLTMo (Quality will get better I just uploaded.) Two things to note. The first is when the hands split and I backflip, thats where I missed my 1st of the 5 on double hands, you can see me turn my camera but I just didnt think I could get it off, Thats why I only get 4 then 5th before they leave. Second is I have no clue why I used a CT combo at the end of the phase LOL, I normally just TTVTFT there, but oh well. Those 2 things along could have boosted me close to the 1600 mark. I'll get it next week!