Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[Magnuso]

I think people are missing a few key concepts here in regards to how to optimize their weapon.
1. Putting acc on the weapon to be ready for future content is sound in theory--but when you're on the cutting edge of progression you are not going to sacrifice a minimum of 2 weapon damage (High Allagan) to downgrade to a weapon with acc on it. That's what mixing and matching armor gear is for.
2. For the vast majority of people that play this game the Novus WILL be their BiS weapon since only a fraction of the playerbase will be clearing t9 before echo buffs come out with the 3rd coil. Maximizing the stats on it (crit and det) is the best way for them to go.
3. They would not put 2/31, 1/44, 3/75 on the weapon scroll for no reason. I think it's safe to assume that det is going to cap at 31 and crit at 44.


Please don't take this as a personal attack to anyone that wants to customize their weapon the way they want. These comments are based on personal observations.

[Itseotle]

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The theory is that there will be another upgrade to base damage before a new coil raid is introduced (2.4?) so accuracy will be viable.
For your second point, afaik Sands and Unidentified Stones will drop from the new CT in 2.3, which will make getting Liberator *MUCH* easier than getting Novus, which really makes the Novus kind of an odd "upgrade" at the moment.

[Yfamura]

The theory is that there will be another upgrade to base damage before a new coil raid is introduced (2.4?) so accuracy will be viable.
For your second point, afaik Sands and Unidentified Stones will drop from the new CT in 2.3, which will make getting Liberator *MUCH* easier than getting Novus, which really makes the Novus kind of an odd "upgrade" at the moment.

I don't think there will be another base damage upgrade before 2.4, it would render the clearing of T9 completely useless and SE definitely doesn't want that. Also if you remember when the 2.2 cames out we didn't have any trouble matching the required accuracy for T6-T7, so in my opinion putting ACC on a potential post 2.4 BiS weapon is kinda a waiste...

[Ricdeau]

The theory is that there will be another upgrade to base damage before a new coil raid is introduced (2.4?) so accuracy will be viable.
For your second point, afaik Sands and Unidentified Stones will drop from the new CT in 2.3, which will make getting Liberator *MUCH* easier than getting Novus, which really makes the Novus kind of an odd "upgrade" at the moment.

Actually they only referenced that Sands and Oil of Time will drop from the new CT. No mention of Unidentified Allagan Tomestones. Who knows what will happen though. So it's not as odd of an upgrade with that in mind (just really really time consuming). Now future content can certainly make it an odd upgrade depending on weapon ilvls.

You can find the question and answer here from the last Q&A:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...98#post2159098