How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Sentinillia]

I do usual opener for first stasis, but i dont use Geirskogul and spineshatter dive. Right after full thrust, i elusive jump to my position, have the stasis happen, watch where the gravitational pops as I SpineShatter dive back right on boss. Allows you to maintain everything. Havent tried too much with Geirskoguling during the opener tho, maybe I could pop it and still be fine, ill try it out tonight.

With the first Stasis, you should ideally be doing 3rd hit while you're running out, and use a gap-closer in for 4th afterwards (I think I have Fey Wind there? Getting to max melee range during that combo also helps). This may be difficult to do consistently, but I can't find a better way to keep BotD up; if I leave any sooner, my combo times out during Stasis. After that, I haven't found a consistent timing (maybe it's just my group situation or all my usual dirty tricks failing me or something). The fight is a bit of a bummer for DRG all around, methinks.

The way I have been doing things, Elusive comes off CD before the second stasis, and I use that one to come in since that's safer than going out at the last second with no chance to adjust.

Delay your BotD by 1 GCD (before Dis -> before CT), it buys you extra 2.whatever seconds to refresh your BotD and to hit that GK in the opener, it's ample time to hit your 4th when re-engaging Alexander.
If you're lucky enough to have an Arrow there you can even hit your 4th and still make it to your position with Elusive. You kind of want to save your DFD for the second stasis if you backflip the first one however.

[Spayd]

Delay your BotD by 1 GCD (before Dis -> before CT), it buys you extra 2.whatever seconds to refresh your BotD and to hit that GK in the opener, it's ample time to hit your 4th when re-engaging Alexander.
If you're lucky enough to have an Arrow there you can even hit your 4th and still make it to your position with Elusive. You kind of want to save your DFD for the second stasis if you backflip the first one however.

Yeah I've watched some replay of the top drg on the fight, and I saw them delay BotD one gcd, so ive been doing that, thats better indeed. Thanks for the tip :>

[SunnyHirose]

Delay your BotD by 1 GCD (before Dis -> before CT), it buys you extra 2.whatever seconds to refresh your BotD and to hit that GK in the opener, it's ample time to hit your 4th when re-engaging Alexander.
If you're lucky enough to have an Arrow there you can even hit your 4th and still make it to your position with Elusive. You kind of want to save your DFD for the second stasis if you backflip the first one however.

It's not so much the BotD timer that I'm talking about here; it's that if you don't get your 3rd in before stasis, you don't get a 3rd!

(Apparently I don't get Fey Wind there, turns out SCH prefers to roflstomp the constant raid busters after the 2hr)

[Sentinillia]

It's not so much the BotD timer that I'm talking about here; it's that if you don't get your 3rd in before stasis, you don't get a 3rd!

(Apparently I don't get Fey Wind there, turns out SCH prefers to roflstomp the constant raid busters after the 2hr)

Ah, sorry, reading comprehension issues. As to what your SCH can do is to simply pop Fey Wind during the Diving Judgement and then re-summon Eos, it should last enough time to give you an extra GCD before Temporal Stasis as well. Or just hope for an Arrow if you're running an AST comp.

[mosaicex]

Looking for BotD uptime tips for Inception and Communion. During the downtime my timer runs out.

For Inceptions just let it run out, by the time the mechanic finished the CD will be back up anyway (I am the one doing Time Gate adds so once I'm out I just do normal rotation without BotD then cast it after the first Inception is finished). For pools of repentance I just save BotD CD until the mechanic is done then recast it after I'm back at the boss.

[Sentinillia]

Looking for BotD uptime tips for Inception and Communion. During the downtime my timer runs out.

Your BotD SHOULD run out during the Inceptions, or at least be very close to running out, close enough to pop a Geirskogul and refresh it on your first Chaos Thrust after Inceptions resolve. Are you holding onto BotD at any point in the fight which might misalign the timer?

As for Communion, depending on the strat your only option might be to skip a Geirskogul prior to it unless your team is willing to adapt to melee uptime needs and tanks the boss in the middle rather than the edge, aiming the Sacrament in a X pattern across the arena rather than a cross. Clicky for MS-Paint reference image. The latter method allows for slightly higher uptime and possibly saves your BotD.