Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[MikeBoston26]

Hey guys, hoping to get some help here, as I'm very frustrated. My DPS sucks and my defense seems non-existent. I haven't been able to finish one HM dungeon yet and I'm always the first to die in my party during boss fights. It's getting really embarrassing now to the point where I don't even want to party with my FC anymore. They've been very patient but I don't want to be "that guy".

I'm in full DL with my +1 relic. I'm following the rotation (H P IDC TTT H P TTT IDC H P TTT TTT) and adding jumps, stuns, B4B, IR, and Foresight in between whenever they come off cool down. I dodge aoe 90% of the time (sometimes as a melee it can't be helped). What else am I missing? Is there a different rotation for boss fights? I feel like I should be OP for these dungeons but it always ends in epic fail. I don't think it's my skill level (I got this far without being carried) but maybe it is. Maybe this is just as far as I can go?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[Dervy]

SNIP

Use this Rotation for more DPS:

H IDC P TTT
H TTT P IDC
H TTT P TTT

For Burst with the cooldowns, it's more like this:

H>ID>BFB+IR>C>LS>P>PS>T>J>T>LS>T>DFD/SP . I hope that makes sense >_<

It's also about dodging AOE's and learning boss Rotations. As a Melee DPS, you either

1) Need to be really good at paying attention to your surroundings and avoiding 95% + AOE's no matter what to cut stress from healers
2) Know the boss rotations well enough so you know when to use your jumps, know exactly when to use your Burst C/D's, Know when an AOE is coming, when it's safe and when it's not safe.

Other then that, it's just learning how to play the Dragoon. The learning curve for Melee DPS at end-game is incredibly high and took me at least 2 months of smashing my head against a brick wall before I learned I needed to pay more attention to the boss mechanics and boss rotations, more so than the Tank.

[MikeBoston26]

Thanks so much Dervy - all great advice! I'm excited to put it to use. Thanks for the reassurance!

[Ayvar]

Ok. A couple caveats for this parse. First I could not hit 463 accuracy with my gear, so I settled for 466. It took me a bit to get LogRep finally working, however in one of our first two attempts I caught a miss on a small snake, so I added another point and bumped myself up to 467. I then restarted my parse, and was able to get a full 38mins until we killed Twintania. Sorry that the image is absolutely massive, but people requested individual ability numbers. Here are the results:



This certainly doesn't confirm anything, but it suggests it may be somewhere in the 467 range since I did get a miss at 466. It would be nice if some other people could parse around 467 and we'll see if we can lock this down, I can't go again for another week.