Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[Gardes]

He's only half right, the rotation at the first page is the optimal rotation assuming you have the base GCD of 2.5, but with SS say... 2.4 GCD your rotation with your OFF-GCD skills have to move a bit. Skill Speed becomes entirely useless if you follow that rotation by the letter, because it doesn't utilize SS potential to get an extra skill or 2 off in a smaller time. An example would be leg sweep, try stacking all your skill speed gear and try to do the normal rotation, if you'll notice that if you delay using your next GCD to use leg sweep before a particular skill you'll be completely negating the effects of skill speed entirely. It's a bit hard to explain, but what I'm trying to say is, if you use a off-gcd skill in between your gcd skill and that said off-gcd skill is delaying gcd skill regardless of why (example, it became available when there's 1 second left till your GCD is ready and you forced to pop it first), it's better to wait for the next gcd to use it, so the incoming GCD won't be delayed by the off-gcd skill's animation.

Ughh wall of text, I hope you understand what I was trying to say xD

Care to elaborate on how much SSP is needed for any of this and what the rotation would look like? Does it even alter the actual full rotation GCDs?

[Decrith]

Care to elaborate on how much SSP is needed for any of this and what the rotation would look like? Does it even alter the actual full rotation GCDs?

It's generally the same for the GCD rotation, only difference is, the off gcd skills are moved by a GCD at a certain point (and moved again by another point) because it'll delay your GCD if you use a skill when your GCD is almost complete. I'm certain a lot of people would disagree with me that moving the off-gcd skills or holding off in using them will hurt your DPS, but not utilizing the SS you have is a greater lost imo (assuming you have a lot of it).