How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[SunnyHirose]

Really? I've not ran below 670SS since A4S and I've rarely ever encountered Thendiels "Deadzone" and that's with Selenes uptime at 100%. Do you use IR -> BOTD, or BOTD -> IR in your opener? I've switched to the latter and it just feels so much more fantastic.

I do IR -> BotD. Granted, I'm far more concerned with the big picture and practical raiding (like conservation of BotD) than micro-optimizations in dummy rotations. I try to keep any such optimizations based on a specific fight (if I even bother). The main exception I'll make for delaying stuff is putting Geirskogul #3 into an Internal Release (I can never quite get the 2x BfB thing to work out well, this is the substitute), so I don't know that BotD -> IR would help me in that regard.

Talking of low SS, I will say, cooldown alignment is definitely "better" to some degree. Life Surge procs with Full Thrust more often and delaying the 2nd BFB by a GCD (So using it after True Thrust), reaps really insane PPS benefits, over using it before the Phlebotomize (As long as the BFB is delayed). Delaying it this way, pushes the 3rd BFB to after a HT, which again, gives you really high PPS benefits, purely because of the interaction with Jump and BFB.

I'll have to investigate sometime. Soon™.

Of course, Life Surge has a really small overall potency, but having the CD shorter than the loop (like when it went 60s->50s) has never not been a relief to the senses....