Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[JetBrooks]

With EMX's new Stat-Weights, Astrum Mail & Arm Guards are BiS for 470, 472, 480, 500 & 520 accuracy.

Quoted this again for relevance. If I'm not mistaken, we'll start getting unidentified tomes in Turn 6. So if you don't think you'll have Turn 6 down within a couple weeks, you probably won't regret picking up chest and/or hands. Same goes for ring, since we have no choice but to buy it at this point. Even if you stumble into 7 and start getting unidentified tomes, it won't hurt that bad as you can still get your Levi weapon. If you're your super paranoid (you have decent reason to be), wait a couple weeks and see what gear floats to the top and is considered best. Gloam Ring is the safest bet for now.

The amount of new gear is insane, my head is still spinning a bit from all the options.

Is anyone doing atma? It doesn't seem worth it to me, considering the time spent vs. payoff... Might do it for my 2nd job or something, even still I dunno if I'll find that much time for it. Bleh.

[whiskeybravo]

Is anyone doing atma? It doesn't seem worth it to me, considering the time spent vs. payoff... Might do it for my 2nd job or something, even still I dunno if I'll find that much time for it. Bleh.

I picked up the quest but haven't spent much time farming.. A few people in the FC got all their Atma over the weekend (they were grinding pretty hard) so even with the ridiculously low drop rate you can probably get all the atma in a week or two at a relaxed pace.

Also keep in mind you can get Atma on any job w/ Zenith, you only need to decide which weapon to upgrade once you get all 12

[PArcher]

I have 4 Atma. Torn between upgrading Gae Bolg or Bravura first. Bravura Animus would be a better upgrade probably, since the WAR Levi and Weathered weapons both are...kinda meh (no Parry at all; the Weathered does have Acc, but my first Weathered will be Liberator, and won't be running Coil with WAR, so there's that). And then I throw Thyrus into the mix and get confused all over again (Levi weapon is out for WHM, but the Weathered and Allagan are both good...)

Probably is best to get Gae Bolg to Animus (or close to done) before 2.3, in case the next upgrade allows for good customization, because the Levi and Liberator are just better. Gae Bolg's selling point is the really high Accuracy...but looking over the gear lists, Acc shouldn't be much of an issue...

Thoughts?

[whiskeybravo]

Thoughts?

I'm torn as well.. Right now leaning toward Bravura just because of the Parry (or lack of Parry on other weapons).. Thyrus probably wouldn't be a bad upgrade for WHM given the hefty amount of DTR on that weapon. I'd like to keep trying to T5 and see what drops I can get from there before deciding, though, that would suck to upgrade one of them only to get the Allagan right after lol

[PArcher]

I'm torn as well.. Right now leaning toward Bravura just because of the Parry (or lack of Parry on other weapons).. Thyrus probably wouldn't be a bad upgrade for WHM given the hefty amount of DTR on that weapon. I'd like to keep trying to T5 and see what drops I can get from there before deciding, though, that would suck to upgrade one of them only to get the Allagan right after lol

The only one I'd be "upset" over would be Thyrus if I got Allagan, but at the same time not really (Det/SS vs PIE/SS. Allagan would be good for learning content with the PIE, Thyrus is better when you know the content. Levi wand is right out, I won't use that thing at all).
The Allagan Axe is on a similar "meh" scale as the others (Acc/Det, good for meeting Coil reqs, but meh otherwise), but for DRG having the Allagan and Tidal is probably a good idea (Acc/Det vs Det/SS; one for Coil, one for everything else). I don't see much use for Gae Bolg right now, just because it has such high Acc and low Crit, only really useful for initially meeting Acc-reqs for Coil until you gear more...

[Butcherboy]

I've pretty much made a decision on my end to put a halt on zodiac upgrade until 2.25 comes out, animus sucks period. So I'm going for Levi weapon the liberator. My drg and mnk will b endgame and tank will b for hm dungeons. I won't get the glam body I'm waiting on the i90 body and meld that with deter stat.

[snowybell]

Finally got my wave harpoon, so, is following the T5 set a good example? since both don't provide accuracy.

[FantasyForever]

Wave harpoon has acc on it.

[Dervy]

3 hours of T6 @ 473 accuracy, missed 3 times out of around 20 attempts. Each time was an autoattack from the front.

[IrealiTY]

Whoever is using their hamsters in a spinning wheel to record your DPS, is either lying, or their hamsters are broken. With a perfect rotation, you'll be breaking 200 dps, even when you're playing horribly (I was avg. 220 my first few attempts).

EDIT: (The "P" word is forbidden)

EDIT 2: How much down-time do you have? As in, are there periods of time, longer than 5 seconds, where you're not dealing damage? (Excluding causes to mechanics). Are you using your burst whenever it's available, taking into consideration when Blighted Bouquet will occur?

I didn't really pay attention on the downtimes but there were a few - eg. when I have to run around with the thorn whips but in this case I always tried to jump back with an attack.