Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[Xlree]

But when do you have to hit from the front ?

During the last phase of turn 9 when everyone stacks in front of the boss. Your fire tether and thunderstruck go to the back, meaning everyone else is in front of the boss and attacking from the front.

[Spartan117]

Yes, Dragoon is my Main Class/Job. And as you said with your words I might have a "poor equip choice" but that doesn't mean I am unable to clear T9 due to this.
Besides that due to all respects, the end of your reply was slightly offensive towards me, at least that is how I received it, sorry if I am wrong.



Yes, there is indeed a huge amount of Accuracy on my Equipment and is most likely the cause for the huge amount of loss in DPS.
As you mentioned before 492 might be the max I'd need for T8-T9, but I'll be still aiming for a little higher at least in regards of T9 due to me having to hit from the Front for a certain time.
Of course I could stop to attack from the Front at those specific moments, but I wouldn't want to risk either being dead or causing others to die through my actions. A dead DPS can't DPS.
I'll rather do Damage from the moment I'm at the Front instead of missing a lot of my Attacks and due causing a delay in DPS overall.
Thank You for your knowledge though, I'll re-adjust my Equipment neccassarily.

But when do you have to hit from the front ?

During the last phase of turn 9 when everyone stacks in front of the boss. Your fire tether and thunderstruck go to the back, meaning everyone else is in front of the boss and attacking from the front.

To answer these questions, just wanna confirm with Sygmaelle.

You don't stack perfectly with the team, but rather you stand to either side of the boss. You move near the party stack to be in range of fire during fire in, staying at the side or back during fire out and thunder, and other boss mechanics accordingly while maintaining most hits from the side or back of the boss during ice fire thunder phase for Turn 9. Am I right in my description?

Cause if that is so, then we can throw the requirement of 512 frontal accuracy out of the window, side accuracy is about 490++ i believe. It will significantly increase our secondary stats with the lower accuracy requirement.

Oh and if you're checking my gear, I'm only using what I have and now at Divebomb phase. I'm at 550 accuracy because of the limted gear i have.

[Sygmaelle]

During the last phase of turn 9 when everyone stacks in front of the boss. Your fire tether and thunderstruck go to the back, meaning everyone else is in front of the boss and attacking from the front.

Well ... you can definitely do better than that. I mean your ranged dps can go on the side rather than behind and it let you either left / right flank or behind to dps all the time without havin to hit from the front whatsoever.

Keep in mind that Thunder / Fire aoes are pretty small so you can totally be on the flank when someone is behind Nael. Only tricky part would be to refresh IDC when someone got thunder but usually its "fine"

[PArcher]

Its good gear to have while waiting on Coil2 drops, but none are BiS

[EllPii]

Are there any Absolute BiS lists with the new crafted i90 accessories out there?

[Butcherboy]

Woooooo we'll everyone I'm 71/75 on novus. I have 2 maps and enough allied notes to purchase 2 alexandrite and I think I'll do that. I went with det/crit stats. I lov doing hunts I manage to get 3 blood books from a rank a so I purchase my first sands of time and upgrade my leg piece soon I'll do gloves and then boots then body

[Zeota]

Hello.

I'm a few weeks into coming back form an 8 month hiatus and have decided to pick up DRG as my main job. I have a somewhat noobish question here. What is it that puts certain pieces of gear ahead of others at the same item level when they have the same STR/VIT/etc.?

[Hakmatic]

440-450(ilvl106) Easy in turn 8, even with doing mines and setting off allagan field tower. So 470 shouldnt be hard to obtain actually. Specially if you dont do mechanics.

Also I havent seen a number posted with 470 either syg, but i do believe its possible! http://imgur.com/ofqSZ3T

[Sygmaelle]

You know like me that, even if a drg got a lot of det like you Hak, the overall dps result is pretty much dependant of the % of crit hits done. In turn 8 for 470 you'd have to be around like 25% if not more, so unless you re really really lucky on the rng, one person really cant say that shes doin that with consistency even without dealin with mechanics.

maybe with like ST gear and chest + Ramuh ring , Ha choker and stuff to manage to stay in the 492 range of acc its actually "possible" but granted said persons claimin that were doin it way before the gear was in the game, and that only monks were reachin this number, ... nah

Im in the 450 range too over 4mins + on a dummy since I got the T9 chest (this week), doubtfull to do more than that unless like I save an Xpot for the very last 8% on the avatar + makin sure to have BFB and IR used at the same time

[sfxsigma]

For any DRGs also clearing t9: do you run 492 or 512 acc? My group, as well as the others i've been in, handle the final phase such that you have to attack Nael from the front, while I have to sneak out to HT/Dis when necessary.

I tried running 492 like this and it leads to a good amount of misses, which really sting in the IDC combo. I started running 512 for this reason, by switching pieces: astrum belt and HA ears instead of HA belt and gloam ears. I don't have reliable parsing to tell which way is better, but I have to imagine not missing is the way to go.

Anyone have experience with this?