How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

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A cooldown is a cooldown, you should use it regardless.
Multiple members of your group are underperforming - apart from "getting good", what helped us alot for the DPS during the first 3 minutes was - emphasize the WHM solo healing most of the first 3 minutes.. The SCH should be able to put out 500+ dps, some groups like to give the SCH dps down here since the WHM has better single target for the 2xhands. The warrior should be able to deliverance pretty much all the 2xhand phase and the DRK can drop GRIT, this gives you more single target dps and allows the SMN and everyone else to multidot/aoe more.

I looked for the slowest kill I could find on fflogs with a similar group set-up (12:52) and isolated the first 3 minutes, you can see how far behind you guys are comparatively. (7,590 dps vs 6,651 dps).
http://www.fflogs.com/reports/QLRB9m...7&end=14310609