Idea for Dragoon Changes

[Renkei]

You should be potting pre-pull, which is nothing new. Bard has to do it due to how busy their opener is.

Your opener should be:



There is some wiggle room. I've seen a handful of Dragoons switch their potion with Dragon Sight; using the latter at 1 second pre-pull.

Delaying our GCD would require a fairly significantly damage increase to compensate for just how severe .5 seconds would be. That adds up to a GCD loss for every four. A one second loss on our pot or Dragon Sight is far, far less. Simply put, it isn't really needed though I may be among the few Dragoons who still sorta miss Heavy Thrust.

This isn't an Inquiry about how to do the opener : It's an Inquiry about Exploration into better lining up dragoons buffs beyond what is possible with the current rotation, even with that rotation Dragoons buffs end up 1 GCD Before everyone else's.

Besides that, nobody even uses the 2.35, or 2.36 Sets because they work better on paper then they seem to work in practice due to the down times in fights for transitions that cannot be properly calculated on paper.
Theoretically Speaking the 2.36 and 2.35 rotation deals more damage then the 2.5 Set, but in Practice the 2.34 set deals more damage then the 2.35 and 2.36 sets, but deals less then the 2.5 set depending if you have a Scholar or not.

Currently nobody in the top 10 spot runs the 2.36 or 2.35 sets due to this issue, it's better on paper but its not better in Practice, On Paper the Best Dragoon set is the 2.38 Set.

The Point of slowing down dragoon GCD is to allow there to be an increase in damage in OGCD abilities, of course slowing it down will give them a damage boost, look at Monk for Example with fist of fire before it was changed, It used to slow down their GCD, an ability that slow downs DRGs GCD while increasing Damage Output is the perfect ability for the class and remedies the issues with Clipping GCDs this isn't an Issue of "L2P DRG" , It's an Solution to DRGs Constant Issue with Clipping Abilities ... This is beyond that it's about realigning the buff window to what it used to be - There's plenty of dragoons that either use Potion where dragon-sight is in your rotation, but there is only 10 people in the top 50 that use 2.36 sets.../