How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Erys]

It's funny the thing with skill speed tho... the macro still works at 1300 with doubleweaving.
But hey... at least they fixxed the macros. Has anyone tried potions tho?

[PaiiNx]

I have this question since i leveled my DRG to 50 back in 2.2. Why Dragonfire Dive is not a "Jump" skill, even before with power surge you cant buff DFD or BotD dont buff it, and now isnt even considered as proc for Mirage Dive. If only they change that our way to open the eye would be much more smooth. Like GK(35sec)-Jump(30)-SSD(60)- DFD(120)- Again Jump when out of cooldown and you have the 4th stack and GK ready to transoform into Nastrond. Sorry for my english but i hope everyone understand what i mean.

[LordMaitreya]

I have this question since i leveled my DRG to 50 back in 2.2. Why Dragonfire Dive is not a "Jump" skill, even before with power surge you cant buff DFD or BotD dont buff it, and now isnt even considered as proc for Mirage Dive. If only they change that our way to open the eye would be much more smooth. Like GK(35sec)-Jump(30)-SSD(60)- DFD(120)- Again Jump when out of cooldown and you have the 4th stack and GK ready to transoform into Nastrond. Sorry for my english but i hope everyone understand what i mean.

Good question. They could do that or make jump 15cd.

[NanoMidgy]

tl;dr: Just came back to game after not playing during 3.0 at all. I really like DRG style (actually first job to 50 at 2.0 release) but i'm old'ish and my mechanics aren't what they used to be.

So apparently, they "simplified" the jobs with the 4.0. Would you say DRG is easy enough to play for an old fart now ? Or still much more difficult than say BLM, RDM etc.

[Erys]

tl;dr: Just came back to game after not playing during 3.0 at all. I really like DRG style (actually first job to 50 at 2.0 release) but i'm old'ish and my mechanics aren't what they used to be.

So apparently, they "simplified" the jobs with the 4.0. Would you say DRG is easy enough to play for an old fart now ? Or still much more difficult than say BLM, RDM etc.

It's easier than before because BotD, it's main mechanic, is now kinda a "trait" since it's always on 30 seconds after your opener. You can pretty much push okay numbers out with it without going full nuts.
But to perform you would be looking back at kinda the same status dragoon was in 3.0 upkeeping BotD but this time just to keep your Eye stacks alive. The max you can go out before losing your eyes is 45 seconds (30 you can obtein by refreshing botd+15 from using botd once your counter hits 0=45-whatever time you take to refresh or enter life of the dragon).

I have this question since i leveled my DRG to 50 back in 2.2. Why Dragonfire Dive is not a "Jump" skill, even before with power surge you cant buff DFD or BotD dont buff it, and now isnt even considered as proc for Mirage Dive. If only they change that our way to open the eye would be much more smooth. Like GK(35sec)-Jump(30)-SSD(60)- DFD(120)- Again Jump when out of cooldown and you have the 4th stack and GK ready to transoform into Nastrond. Sorry for my english but i hope everyone understand what i mean.

This would mean you would get Life of the Dragon after the second jump in the rotation and wouldn't be buffed by anything. I don't know if in the long run it would be any better but I can't imagine MANY battles going far than 2 or 3 minutes without having a phase change or a break in which you lose eye stacks and therefore make you lose the life of the dragon that would get buffed with bfb or dragonsight.
Dunno, math wizards might know more. Of course more life of the dragon is going to be better than 1 life of the dragon buffed but popoto maths here x'D

[Shamox]

Rotation is brain dead now, yet optimization is harder.

[Gaiussenpai]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...cc&sh=3dbc7e51

Rip drg?

[LordMaitreya]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...cc&sh=3dbc7e51

Rip drg?

Yea. You should switch to Sam right now.

On a serious note the mages are parsing too high for how easy and relatively safe their play style is.

[Gaiussenpai]

Yea. You should switch to Sam right now.

On a serious note the mages are parsing too high for how easy and relatively safe their play style is.

Or ninja either would work.

[Finroy]

Would you even be able to bring something like Dragon Sight into SSS? Been awhile since I poked one of those things.