What is the point of "no mods" if it is not enforced?

[Frizze]

Yeah, when people say you need to learn the rotation, what Urth described is the dragoon version of what they mean. For dragoon it means keeping up the heavy thrust buff, using the chaos combo for the extra DoT and debuff, and working in the full thrust combo to get the best damage you can(or heavy + aoe for multi-target encounters). A lot of this changes as you go - you didnt even get your full chaos combo until level 50 afterall - so you need to keep evaluating new skills and traits as you get them to see how best to put them to use. Or read the DPS forum, and see the work other people have already put in to all that. A lot of dedicated people have spent a lot of time arguing, testing, and calculating all this stuff already.