How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[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.

[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

[Ninjah2r]

@ Jack, you're on 1153 str I'm on 1151. we have the both critrate, and yet I'm at 1616 dps on the a7s dummy failed it at 5% naked.

Here is my gear : http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/5733472/

Is it just the weapon?

edit: 1% now 1687 dps 25% critrate

[Xion777]

Long time lurker, first time poster.

I'm posting to ask for advice for melds. I've been browsing and reading everything I can on here and Reddit and, to be honest, I feel totally lost. I know we don't have specific accuracy caps on Midas Savage and so that leads to a lot of speculation, but does anyone have any advice on what is good in general?

IL: 211. Acc: 705. SS: 751. I use all upgraded Lore gear (one ring is 200), with the exception of a Midas belt and Lore chest I bought last night. I lot of the builds I see have a lot of crit so I'm leaning towards that.

Thanks!

[Fishayy]

Any idea on the 3.2 BiS for dragoon, haven't seen many since patch hit.

[JackFross]

Is it just the weapon?

Yes. Absolutely. It's a full +1 Weapon Damage on top of the jump in Strength. That usually equates to ~40-50 dps gain, just from changing that one thing.

Thanks!

I'm sorry for you. The Lore chest is bad.

But uh, you basically want to have as much gear as possible give you crit and/or det and then meld in whichever other stat of the two it's missing, after ACC and SKS caps are reached.

Any idea on the 3.2 BiS for dragoon, haven't seen many since patch hit.

I believe Dervy is still running calculations to find the exact BiS, but the set I'm currently building toward is - http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/T02S

And, without A8S killed, I'm aiming for - http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/T02X

Depending on misses, I might swap the Crit V in the belt for an Accuracy V instead. It took me a while to work out a pair of sets where any overlap pieces were rocking the exact same materia. I'm planning to immediately meld those pieces in that manner and then fill in my 220/230 with IVs to fill the gaps needed for ACC/SKS while I progress.

[Ninjah2r]

if we /pray to dervy, would that make him some kind of sick estinien x dervish drg primal XD?

think with all the questions of bis for drg in 3.2 in reddit and even here, ppl would have all their answers sorted out XD

edit:

what piece are you guys getting next week then with lore? (or the week after that since most of us are now low on lore cause of the pants).

I myself don't have a clue, mostly crafted gear for myself atm, so what's best to get?

[Fishayy]

i dont know about that skill speed though, especially for midas having higher that 610/650 is really good

[JackFross]

I myself don't have a clue, mostly crafted gear for myself atm, so what's best to get?

I'm to the point of buying nothing. My static has had one night in A5S and pushed a 9-minute run that almost hit enrage. I have pants, but now need to save my next 1000 for the spear, since if we progress at this rate (and assuming fixed glitches in A6S), we could theoretically have A6S down the week after next (since one raid day next week).

If I weren't doing this, though, ring. Absolutely the ring. It's the only piece that - no matter what - you will NOT replace with a 240 Midas drop. Ever. Plus it has good stats on it this time around.

[Instrumentality]

I finally got DRG to 60 last Saturday and read through the guides/explanations in the initial post afterwards to help figure out how to play better, and I just wanted to say thanks to everyone that has contributed to the thread so far, especially the openers and advice on GK usage. I went from not understanding how to use GK to clearing the A6S dummy in a day (still not good enough for A7S though, going to work on it more this week and see how far I can go)!

DRG feels like a blast in real fights, too. Just messing around with it on extremes is giving me a lot of insight into timings that I never got as much info on as a tank main when the content was current, so hopefully that will carry over as I get further into Midas Savage tank wise to help out my melee dps (whee vortexer).