How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Sparhwk]

I was going full crit but I'm going to switch to DH/Det as I get omega gear. According to some stuff on reddit, crit doesn't pull ahead until you have 2500-3000+ rating. And we don't have very much on our gear to begin with so it's impossible to reach those values for now.

[Leananshee]

What melds are you guys using on the omega nm gear? I'm going full crit atm.

I also decided going with DH would be better than crit, as the return seems to be a better return off the bat. Until we get (if we get) better crit gear, it seems that pumping all into crit at the moment might be a waste. Not sure if its been properly confirmed yet or not though.

Haven't started adding any melds yet though, still plenty of time to decide once people have gotten more gear or confirmation by those crunching the numbers start flooding the communication channels

[YiznoBergerFett]

i went for DH when the stars align (All the buffs) my full thrust is critting for 19k. usually in the first 30seconds to a minute of a fight i top the dps meters, as mechanics come into play and other classes hit their stride i fall back down to 3rdish depending on gear and class make up.

also with the new tombstone coming out next week (iirc) the BIS will change. there is some omega gear with no crit or dh on it right now.

i am using materia 5s since i have a ton but i wont go overboard trying to get 6s till we hit that point were gear wont be changing for a few months and its true BIS.

[Ninjah2r]

hmm, yeah I'm still torn in between DH or staying Crit and not redoing my melds on current gear/future gear. Any idea/info on stat weights? It feels like drg is abandoned atm haha. Anyone got their highest potency opener/rotation sorted out? I need some rotations to compare at, I have Aoi's opener now from YTube, but still am open to better ones if there are any

[SunnyHirose]

DRG is not abandoned. DRG is waiting for Tuesday.

[aleph_null]

For openers you can check Aio Auroka and Momo Kyun's videos on youtube. As for stat weights, even if they have figured out the formulas I doubt they'll release anything until after next tuesday, (cmiiw) since stat weights are calculated relative to our stats in BiS gear (even if they calculate them for current i320 gear, the weights will change again after we get savage gear).

[Ninjah2r]

@Aleph, already using Aio's/Momo's Early GK opener still ty!

@Sunny, tbh I personally have lost hope for SE to do major job changes to DRG. Because it does need some big changes imo, if they're gonna increase potency on Sonic Thrust like people are speculating, or 20-30 potency on some other skill it won't make a difference I think. We really do not need small changes, but hard to argue that when Yoshi thinks that drg should be like this, no room for critique then.

[SunnyHirose]

Maybe I've gotten old, or maybe I don't have enough skin in the game having gone casul, but I waited a year for DRG to be acceptable before, and I can do it again. Certainly I can wait one week for things to be set in stone before going hog wild on theory.

The JP discussion on the topic has slowed down but is no less fierce for it. The battle system designers do not need to read a single word I write on the topic at this point. The things they do need to see are already in that thread. Some of those posts have likes in the double and triple digits. They also have charts and stuff, it's rather impressive, really.

[Sparhwk]

Dedicated theory crafters can blow the devs out of the water. The problem is the devs in every game are super stubborn and will never explain the real reason why they make certain changes. It probably stings really fierce when a player can show you how stupid you are so it's eaiser to just tell the player to stfu and deal with. Cause in the end there is little we can do.

Assuming the devs have the same info then they should be able to see why some melee or other classes are suffering and with feedback can fix it. Instead we get yoshi telling us DRG provide amazing group damage when we can eaisly prove otherwise. I want to know what his data is showing how great we are. Cause the only time I see DRG doing close to a SAM or others is when they get balance at like 80%+ uptime and the SAM isn't in that party.

[YiznoBergerFett]

DRG is not abandoned. DRG is waiting for Tuesday.

what is tuesday? is someone gonna finally pay me for all those cheeseburgers?