How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[JackFross]

I now have these parts crafted with these melds:

It depends on how you're going to build.

My chest is det v x2, acc iv x 3
Hands will be acc iv x2, crit iv x3
Feet will be crit iv x1, acc iv x4

I need a lot of accuracy with the way I want to build my gear, so I'm horribly over-stacking it on those crafted pieces. I use V's on my chest, since that thing isn't getting replaced until the Midan chest. Everything else will be replaced by 230 or 240 pieces.

Every dragoon should be buying the Slipstream pants next week. I'm planning on ring the following week, head the week after.

There's not really 1 right way to meld things. You need to meld according to what gear you're going to have and what stats you're going to need to use said gear in content. Grade V materia (imo) should only be used on i240 gear - there's no reason to waste it on anything else. Unless you really enjoy Diadem and have a surplus of g5, which I find unlikely, you're wasting resources on stuff that'll be gone in a week or two.

Like, this is the set I'm building toward before getting any A8S drops: http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/SRBR

I have all of those melds the same as the final set I'm aiming for - http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/SRBE - on any piece that overlaps between the two sets. If ACC is a bit low, I can easily adjust melds in this set to bump it up, and the no-A8S set has 705 base, so using acc food should be enough to make up any differential I encounter.