Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[Rusubandenwa]

A decent player should be able to carry their weight in T5 in the ilvl80s.

Studying and perfecting mechanics makes a BIG difference, especially in T6+ because of the high amount of movement. Basically, if you beat T5, then you can pull enough weight through T6 and so on, since you'll keep gearing yourself as you go. I believe the average ilvl of the first T9 clear was 96.

I figured as much. Better armor seems like it will allow you to have a larger margin of forgiveness when getting used to the mechanics of each fight (and after watching guides for T5 and 6, there appear to be many of them), but knowing what you're doing >>>>> what you're wearing.

[JetBrooks]

I figured as much. Better armor seems like it will allow you to have a larger margin of forgiveness when getting used to the mechanics of each fight (and after watching guides for T5 and 6, there appear to be many of them), but knowing what you're doing >>>>> what you're wearing.

Yeah man, for those of us who are not pushing for world firsts, the information is out there from the dudes who do the big boy work. Guide videos are okay, but not quite enough for working to perfect your playing. At the very least watch a guide video and at least a couple videos from the perspective of your job. I started on T7 this week and am honestly having a pretty easy time after watching different videos for about 90mins. Studying saves you years in effort XD

[Butcherboy]

Question here, I know drg dint need any buff, but I was quite curious as what buff we're supposed to b getting along with other DDs when the blm buff start rolling. I heated that was cancelled

[MeowzBoss]

Hey guys, long time lurker, first time poster.

I'm having trouble hitting some numbers that I hear other dragoons hitting at this ilvl. I'm ranging around 395-405 at i101 (here's my current gear set up: http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/MVBE)
I'm using the rotation from this guide as well, here's what it looks like from my perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kJX...ature=youtu.be
And here's the best parse I've gotten with a ton of crits: http://imgur.com/Wkd1GYM

If anyone has any advice, is it possible to reply to the video or PM here, up to you. I'd appreciate it big time... I feel as if Im doing what Im told but I'm not getting the same results as everyone else.

Thanks.

[SokiYagami]

Pretty sure this have been asked before, but after the first opening rotation, is it better to pop IR and LS (with FT) as soon as it's up? Or would it be better to hold them back for B4B? And while I'm at this, do you guys reset the rotation of CT > FT (popping CDs and jumps in between) or do you carry on whatever you are doing and pop CDs along the way? Say, you just finish CT > FT set, and all the CDs are up, would you do FT > CT or reset CT > FT while popping CDs?

[TheKingSlayer]

Pretty sure this have been asked before, but after the first opening rotation, is it better to pop IR and LS (with FT) as soon as it's up? Or would it be better to hold them back for B4B? And while I'm at this, do you guys reset the rotation of CT > FT (popping CDs and jumps in between) or do you carry on whatever you are doing and pop CDs along the way? Say, you just finish CT > FT set, and all the CDs are up, would you do FT > CT or reset CT > FT while popping CDs?

Don't pop IR with Life Surge, LS already guarantees a critical hit so no need to increase the crit rate with IR. The cooldown for LS is shorter (60secs) than B4B (80secs), so if you always wait to use LS with B4B you'll potentially have LS waiting for 20 secs before b4b is back up. I use all cool downs as available. If all buffs are up, all dots are ticking, and no cooldowns are available, always go with the FT combo.

[SokiYagami]

Sorry for making it sound confusing, what I meant was, should I pop IR and LS (separately) as soon as it's up, or should I hold them back for B4B? I wonder if someone did the maths on this before?

[pompey_dan]

Sorry for making it sound confusing, what I meant was, should I pop IR and LS (separately) as soon as it's up, or should I hold them back for B4B? I wonder if someone did the maths on this before?

For life surge I think it depends how long is left on BFB cooldown, if there is like <9s on B4B you should hold life surge so that the crit benefits from the +30% of B4B.

Saving life surge for every B4B is not alot worse than using it on cooldown. Ignoring DE and HT buffs, over a 320 second period using life surge on FT assuming FT is always ready as soon as it comes off colldown, then using LS on cooldown vs with BFB is like 3217.5 potency vs 3267. So not alot of difference. However life surge will not always be used as soon as it is up like BFB can because you will need to wait for FT. So basically need to just use best judgement on when to use it.

[Lucael_Shikaree]

I strongly suggest to every new Dragoon of the community to check the opening post and the first pages of the thread. You can have a lot of insight and useful information. Plus there's some terrific work that some members put in there and is worth to be checked. Like this one about CD priority, the first pages cover this as well.
Anyway what's happening to the Dragoon community in this forum? It used to shine in the old days and now we have people discussing about Chaos Thrust be useful or asking mindless buff on the job. :\

[Silverharp]

I strongly suggest to every new Dragoon of the community to check the opening post and the first pages of the thread. You can have a lot of insight and useful information. Plus there's some terrific work that some members put in there and is worth to be checked. Like this one about CD priority, the first pages cover this as well.
Anyway what's happening to the Dragoon community in this forum? It used to shine in the old days and now we have people discussing about Chaos Thrust be useful or asking mindless buff on the job. :\

You take those topics seriously?