How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[PheonixCain]

The slipstream hat is a really good choice, too, it's just very likely to be replaced by the Midas helm eventually when you down A8S, whereas the slipstream boots, pants, and ring are unlikely to ever leave your character once they're on.

Thx for a detail explanation, we just cleared A5S last night, guess i will save lores for weapon from now on, otherwise i wud get the ring or boots this week

Should I be holding buffs for Hummelfaust or not? Exp people in the FC said hold BFB and stuff.. But I see Dervy doesn't, and Jack does.. Most of the drgs I looked at don't.

personally, i who doesn't really care abt the numbers unless we can clear the fight easily. i hold my B4B for hummelfaust, but i guess we have a different arrangement for my static. we have the Mnk, Mch and myself the Drg who hold our burst at the beginning (i hold B4B, but i use all the IR BOTD jump SSD and dragonfire on them, so i can have the 4th hit and GK on both of them), and only had the Blm use his burst at the beginning. once hummelfaust arrived, the 3 of us will,of course, use our regular burst. in my case, during my first Chaos thrust combo on hummelfaust i won't have BOTD nor GK (or maybe one GK right before disembowel depends on how fast we were killing the two fausts), but during the Full thrust combo i will have IR and all the rest back up as usual, and my jump wud still cover in the last second of B4B, but not the SSD. However, we started this method becuz we didn't have enough dps to actually clear it at the very first beginning while we were not as geared as now, but anyways it works out at the end, i mean, at this point we only concern abt safe and solid clears.

2) I may have chosen poorly when purchasing Lore gear <.< Is the chest piece so bad that I should switch back to my artifact chest? Or can I mitigate it by slotting crit materia?

i'd say, talk to a GM, tell him u bought the wrong piece accidentally, and ask him to switch the chest to the pants for u. every account has one chance once a life time to do this, if u want to progress in Midas or already having a static group progressing there, i will suggest u to do this

I'm guessing the people spending B4B are doing so because its only an 80 second cooldown and will come back up while hummel is being killed. Meanwhile if they waited they'll only get one. It seems to be a case of do you want to pad your numbers for a better parse (popping B4B early while there's multiple targets and getting it back non-optimally later) or do you need to maximize your hummelfaust damage to ensure a clear (lining it up better with other cooldowns for a pseudo-opener on hummel).

yea i think so too, for myself i dont really care abt so much abt numbers at this moment anyways, so we have 3 dps holding our burst on the two fausts. and for myself, yes i was only getting one B4B, the 2nd B4B actually came at the last 4-5% of hummelfaust, most of the time i wont pop it there cuz we wnna shorten the cd wait time as much as possible when we get to the boss room, and we didn't really need that B4B there either, tbh i feel that if a 2nd B4B is needed at that moment, it would very likely gonna hit enrage not matter what