Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[SunnyHirose]

On the topic of DPS, I'm curious: with this gear setup, around what should I be expecting for a baseline dummy parse, assuming no food/party buff/pots/Mercy Stroke? I haven't had the chance to have anyone parse me on a dummy yet, and while my parses in actual battles are always near or at the top of the list, I'm not sure what numbers I should be aiming for just as a baseline.

About 500 or so. Somewhere in that ballpark. I don't think "aiming" for a number is particularly useful, though, since you don't want to base your judgment off "that one with a bunch of crits."

[Jeckyl_Tesla]

Hey guys, is there a way to set up the parser so I don't have the merge the fights at times?

Since, for example.

Whenever Garuda jumps to do, her shriek, it stops the current parser and sets up another one. I have to merge them myself at the end of the fight. Or click all (Which is not a good way of finding out real DPS, if I am not mistaken)?

[Dunncan]

Hey guys, is there a way to set up the parser so I don't have the merge the fights at times?

Since, for example.

Whenever Garuda jumps to do, her shriek, it stops the current parser and sets up another one. I have to merge them myself at the end of the fight. Or click all (Which is not a good way of finding out real DPS, if I am not mistaken)?

Options > Main table / Encounters > General.

Check "Number of seconds to wait after the last combat action to begin a new enconter" and set it to 30 (seconds).
Also, check "Usa a internal timer to count..."

[Martyn]

Hey Dervy, when you start the new DRG Thread could you please just put in some DPS numbers. Something like approximately expected DPS at Ilvl 110, 115, 120, etc. Maybe the thread finally gets rid of "is 650dps any good? " and "how much dps should I do ".

About that pentamelded stuff I have to disagree with Dervy actually.
Its like the same thing with Zodiac weapons. If you dont have the money to maximaze it there might be way to get a decent compromise.
Take the ring for example. You could get +3 crit and +3 acc if you put in lvl IV materias in slot 4&5 instead of lvl III. Each cost about 500k - 600k compared to 6k - 15k (on my server). I dont even want to guess how much gil you gotta spent for those 3 crit and 3 acc.
In my opinion its better to use lvl III as soon as you reach 11% chance, but that depends on your wallet and your will to spent gil of course. I also dont want to use flint caviar. Its about 50k here which makes it not worth it in my opinion.

I am kind of greedy about stats too, but as soon as I think about spending like 6million gil for 3 more crit which only lasts untill the add on... nah, I wont do that.

Anyways, for those who dont want to spent that much money or simply dont have it, here is one option to use pentamelded stuff, get a decent set and dont waste too much money. It follows the rule of not using lvl IV materia in <12% slots and not using flint caviar. it shows the comparison to the non crafted bis set.

http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/PM4Y

[Jeckyl_Tesla]

Options > Main table / Encounters > General.

Check "Number of seconds to wait after the last combat action to begin a new enconter" and set it to 30 (seconds).
Also, check "Usa a internal timer to count..."

Thanks for that, got it.

[Mibhas]

The thing is, often times unless you go for max melds on crafted stuff, it'll have a lower total stat weight than its i130 equivalent. For example, my crafted earrings have a stat weight of 26.445 which is 0.05 less than the Augmented Ironworks ones (26.495). Thus, I basically gain 16 Vitality and lose 13 accuracy. Had I gone for cheaper melds, I would've lose a lot more DPS from switching to these.

If you don't want to go max melds, just stick with i130 stuff.

[HulveinBlitz]

Yan..

I got my spear.

[Noxotic]

NIN friend just hit 550 on T13 unmerged. What's the closest us as DRGs have been to that? That's without getting any earthshakers or anything.

[rickyguo]

NIN friend just hit 550 on T13 unmerged. What's the closest us as DRGs have been to that? That's without getting any earthshakers or anything.

can you link a parse

I'd think that the other people in the party would have to be doing less damage during dives+adds for a person to do 550

I have done 507 with earthshakers but I think it all depends on raid dps during dives.

[Odowla]

can you link a parse

I'd think that the other people in the party would have to be doing less damage during dives+adds for a person to do 550

I have done 507 with earthshakers but I think it all depends on raid dps during dives.

Or draw out the last phase A LOT - if you don't die you can make up for all of the downtime, or at least, most of it, it it gets drawn out long enough.