Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[Migosha]

That's what I got for 458 ACC to aim for 467 with Deviled eggs :

Allagan visor of maiming (T4)
Wyrm's mail
Allagan Gauntlets of maiming (T2)
Hero's belt of maiming
Allagan trousers of maiming (T1)
Allagan Sollerets of maiming (T5)
Allagan Choker of maiming (T2)
Earthquake's Earrings
Hero's Braclet of Slaying
Allagan ring of striking (T4)
Allagan ring of maiming (T4)

That bring us to 460 ACC without food. My solver seems to always get that list, but as I don't totally trust it, it would be good if someone could double check that list.
Of course that's if we choose 467 to be the "right" ACC's cap to have for T5, so don't take that as the final BiS list.

Mike, you could begin by using the super simplified rotation HP IDC TTT, rinse and repeat. It's close in DPS to the best one and will ask you nearly no concentration on it, allowing you to concentrate on the battle and your positioning to avoid aoe/cleaves.

Edit : by running a bit more the solver it gave me a slightly better list.

Edit 2 : the solver works perfectly under OpenOffice. Go to "Tools" > "Solver".

[KrystalF]

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I got that list aswell but that's if you use deviled eggs only, with the new weights Buttons in a Blanket are better and that leads to the BiS lists posted in the first post of this thread. Those BiS sets have been calculated with deviled,buttons,apkallu and truffle rissoto and buttons seems to always win in any case because of the new Det weight. If you wanna get the 467 BiS check that list.

[Migosha]

The big advantage for using Deviled Eggs for T5 is that for everything else you'll use Buttons and get a better DPS than being stuck at 467 from your equipment alone.

I'll try to meld food gestion in the spreadsheet to see if it can be part of the solver and see how much of a gain the Button's version is toward the Deviled.

Edit: I think I see my mistake: what you call Buttons is "Button Mushroom Saute" with bonus to DET and ACC? As I'm playing in French I don't have the same names, and always though what you called Buttons was the "Black Truffe Risotto" which is purely DET/Crit and may be interesting, but will have the limits I exposed above: no way to lower your ACC for lower Turns/primals/etc. unless changing equipment pieces.
I'm trying to find a list of the HQ version of Button Mushroom Saute, Black Truffe Risoto and Devilied Eggs but for the moment all the databases give me the normal versions.

[zeth07]

EDIT: Nevermind, I worked it out myself by starting from scratch.

[Crush3r07]

For those of you just starting to gear a DRG, but have extra gil. The crafted Neck,Brace, Ear, Rings, and Belt are a nice upgrade until you get your 90 pieces. It saves you months of waiting for myth gear or finding coil static and gears you now. I didn't double check but some of you enthusiast might be able to get some vit on those as well. The new stat weights gave crafted gear a nice boost.

Each Piece when melded right is guaranteed to have:
9 STR
12 ACC
12 Crit
12 SS
8 Det

That's six pieces with 15.616 stat weight and has convenient options to hit different accuracy caps.

[KrystalF]

Not sure about that solver, didn't try it. What I can tell you is I am always talking about buttons in a blanket.

The thing is I added the Button Mushroom Saute to my app to check if it is worth it and it still gets the Buttons in a Blanket on the BiS so I think that's probably wrong.

I guess it is a "nice alternative" if you don't want that useless accuracy but I rather rearrange my gear to get a lower accuracy gear and have 2 different gears sets.

[Crush3r07]

I got a question for Turn 5. I'm just starting out and learning. For conflagoration you will hear most people say blow your cooldowns to break it. What do you guys use? I'm not sure what to use. I just been using TTT and any off global cd skils. I don't use the dives as it seems (although never tested) it would just get me stuck in conflagoration.

[Ayvar]

I got a question for Turn 5. I'm just starting out and learning. For conflagoration you will hear most people say blow your cooldowns to break it. What do you guys use? I'm not sure what to use. I just been using TTT and any off global cd skils. I don't use the dives as it seems (although never tested) it would just get me stuck in conflagoration.

BFB on it's own is fine for one of the burns, on the other IR, PS+Jump and Life Surge should do the trick. DFD and Spineshatter are both fine to use, Mercy Stroke is excellent as always.

The order of operations on a burn conflag is usually:

Before - HT when conflag is about to come, ID on Twintania when it goes out but before it is up

During - Open with Disembowel, then straight into TT-VT-FT, if you get any more abilities than that off on a burn conflag someone fucked up

[Peptaru]

BFB

Make sure you're not eating a fireball with BfB up, your dps plummets when you're KO'd~ I did that in my first Twin fight, just ouch.

[Ayvar]

Make sure you're not eating a fireball with BfB up, your dps plummets when you're KO'd~ I did that in my first Twin fight, just ouch.

No fireballs on burn conflags