DRK dps help

[Chrono_Rising]

As Deathgiver and Lyth noted there seem to be some rotation issues. There are only two uploads publicly viewable spaced 5 months apart (makes general statements difficult), but it appears you are not managing your oGCDs optimally. Your most recent is missing salted earth casts (525 potency a pop) and more than half of your plunge potential. The first upload is missing plunge entirely and missed some salted casts. In the upload that you appear to main tank in you also only have 5 uses of TBN, TBN in grit is a major source of damage, it is only out of grit that it is usually a dps loss, so this is something to keep in mind if you are going to be full time grit. The best way to raise your dps is of course learning to not use grit (which saps 25% of your dps potential between grit penalty and blood weapon) but if you aren't comfortable with running without grit then the TBN grit thing is good to keep in mind.

Just one other side note, if you were in grit the entire time (as in your most recent upload) you should expect to lose in the neighborhood of 700 to 800 dps (25% of your total damage at the average to above average range) compared to a full time off tank performing in the average to above average range, so being 1000 behind with 100% grit up time isn't extreme but does point at a rotation issue.

As for guides I would check out Emiin for an advanced guide, which is very comprehensive, and posted on the forums: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Raiding-Guide

They provide a number of openers in that guide as well as the dark knight priority system. The off tank opener can be found here: http://ffxivrotations.com/vfc