Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

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I see you fixed some of it. You should assume the looped buffs to make a simpler evaluation. The way you're compensating for it skews your buff uptime upwards inaccurately and also frontloads the FR buff, basically double counting / skewing it. Also, the last PH in the second line of my rotation is also wrong and should be /132, not /220.

In any case, your rotation is 106.8 potency per second. Mine is 109.5 pps (difference of 2.7, or 2.5%).

In addition, that is just for abilities, not autoattacks.

Adding in an assumed 35 PPS baseline for AAs, the two rotations are: 151.9 and 148.3 (diff of 3.6, or 2.4%). ::surprise:: I guess the autoattacks didn't favor full buff uptime as I had thought. Wonder why. Sidenote: they must favor the buff uptime less than special attacks do, and just up the baseline. Lulz.

That aside, we're not talking major differences.


The real analysis will be how sensitive the "IDC" rotation is compared to the "HT" rotation to skill speed buffs (there are ways to compensate for the CT clipping in the IDC rotation but it is an issue) next to the alternative cost of having Fracture selected.

There's also the general speculation of how complex it is to mentally maintain an "IDC is rotating" sequence versus a "PH and HT are alternating" sequence. I think the latter lends itself to a priority approach better:

1. If <5s is left on DE, use IDC.
2. If <3s is left on HT or PH, use that ability.
3. Finish TTT.

In fact it's probably easiest to perceive the sequence as "H -> IDC" alternating with "P -> IDC" and just refreshing and filling based on the 3 rules above.

That aside, the basic advantage to dropping FR is that you get another defensive cooldown to pop. That may or may not be worth much (and is not worth anything for DPS).