How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Nominous]

I'm going to post a video, or at least try. I'm constantly cycling my hotbars to see if anything's coming up, so it'd be easier just to show that there's nothing I can really find to go any higher.

[JackFross]

I'm going to post a video, or at least try. I'm constantly cycling my hotbars to see if anything's coming up, so it'd be easier just to show that there's nothing I can really find to go any higher.

This was the closest I came to downing the A8S dummy today. Maybe it'll help you a bit re: playing on controller? I dunno. I never cycle hotbars to check buffs, because it'll inevitably lead to hanging gcds which is a massive dps loss. On attempts where I fucked my rotation and delayed a gcd by even 0.2 seconds, my dps plummeted from 1710 to ~1640 on that particular failure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXyPLxvbnhg

I optimize for a 3-minute fight in there a little (I screw it up every single time because I'm an incorrigible idiot) and pulled ~1757 with the gear I linked earlier. I didn't record my i211 Sephirot spear A5S kill, but I can do that tomorrow if you'd like. Also with... I think... Steamed Staff HQ + X-Potion of Strength

[Nominous]

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

That was the A5S dummy. Level 214, with a Sephirot weapon. No food, no pot, only 9 seconds left. Tried again with Baked Pipira HQ, got like 10 seconds left.
http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/2801595/
^ Lodestone for gear. I wasn't able to participate in Savage, due to a static implosion. And forget about Diadem or crafted.

A couple of things to note-
I'm still fuzzy on the 2GK/BfB thing, as it never really seems to work for me how it's been explained. I held the GK and it still didn't really work out.
I shouldn't have used Life Surge the way I did deep in since it hung up one of my skills, but I thought it'd fit.
I'm on a controller, so cycling hotbars is extremely easy as you see. I'm NEVER missing one of my cooldowns coming up, EVER.

And yet still, I'm at like 1540-1550 or something DPS (if the calculator is to be believed) without a pot. It just confuses me. How can you literally be like 200+ higher than me? I'd give maybe 30-50 to the pot, but after that, where is the remaining 100+? I don't see any flaw glaring enough in my rotation, and even if there were, I'd be just as confused as to how that'd come out to 100 DPS lost.

I mean, I'm comfortable with my DPS, I guess. I rank pretty well on FFlogs for Sephirot EX (for my server anyway), for not being given any special treatment, and using no pots, but... It just irks me that there's clearly something holding me back from doing even higher numbers, and it's not even remotely clear as to what.

I see you hold cooldowns (like internal release, life surge, Dragon Fire, Spineshatter) at certain points, and for a good while. But I was under the impression that, from what this thread's shown me anyways, that it's hardly ever something you want to do (if given full uptime). Holding Life Surge made no real sense, nor did the internal release. Perhaps these are the said "Optimizations" for this specific 3 min parse?

[Shenjiro]

Tried again with Baked Pipira HQ, got like 10 seconds left.

As far as I know potions & food doesn't work with those dummys.

[SunnyHirose]

And yet still, I'm at like 1540-1550 or something DPS (if the calculator is to be believed) without a pot. It just confuses me. How can you literally be like 200+ higher than me? I'd give maybe 30-50 to the pot, but after that, where is the remaining 100+? I don't see any flaw glaring enough in my rotation, and even if there were, I'd be just as confused as to how that'd come out to 100 DPS lost.

Simulator says that's what your average ought to look like with that gear.

As a controller player myself it drives me nuts how you switch bars to check cooldowns (I put most of the important ones up front and next to the weaponskill they pair with most often, and the rest on other hotbars; my setup is based primarily on mechanical efficiency, so I avoid having to press anything to check anything as much as possible). It didn't seem to cause any GCD delays per se, nor were the ones I could observe very long, just really hard to watch lol

[Nominous]

But uh, aside from that, I don't have anything to critique. Like you said, you're doing everything right.

Oh christ. It's the gear. I guess it really is as strong as people say it is. Thanks for the pointer on 2GK/BfB.