Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[jehuty08]

So I'm beginning to suspect that my raid leaders ACT might be mis-calibrated or something because its showing me frequently breaking 610 with zodiac. Watching videos of past t11 and t12 clears, I would burst up to around 850 and then after the dust settled, I would be sitting around 600-630 until ADS/Benu phase started. I guess I just figured you guys with the dreadwyrm spear were hitting for like 640-670 at those points.

After seeing some of the numbers you guys are posting, well... Im good, but I dont think im THAT good.

[rickyguo]

it depends on dps on the clear

you'd lose dps on periods where you can't hit like after adds on t11 or during dives on t12

no drops again boys

[Daweism]

it depends on dps on the clear

you'd lose dps on periods where you can't hit like after adds on t11 or during dives on t12

no drops again boys

I am surprised at how well you handled it.

[Itseotle]

So which is it, do I lose really a lot of auto-attacks by not doing lock-on target or not? Cause I'm sure I don't notice any big differences between it when I tested it.
Of course I can switch anytime and just get used to one or the other, but would like to have a clear definite answer before that from all perspectives.

Its easy enough to test. Do a 4 min parse on a dummy, doing exactly what you do to max dps, get those positionals, pop all cds, ect. Then do another 4 min parse where you do everything like the first test except don't move at all. Afterwards, you can can check the number of auto attacks between the two parses.

[Dervy]

Depends on your skillspeed. Personally for you, Chaos Thrust.

[Dervy]

Use it before Chaos Thrust, obviously :P.

[Yfamura]

3 min parse is not long enough. If you want to get a better grip at your dps you should do a 4 min parse, stopping right before your 4th BfB pops.

[Mibhas]

Anyone notice any funky shenanigans with ACT when parsing? What has happened to me often is that when I end the parse manually (i.e. when I'm dummy parsing), if I close ACT and then open it again with the logfile that was just created, my DPS will have dropped because the encounter time seems to have increased slightly. I think it's related to DoT ticks (I compared the Outgoing Damage sections from before and after and found the only difference was the extra ticks), but this is damned annoying >_>

[Dervy]

you can type "/echo end" in chat and it'll end the parse.

EDIT: http://advancedcombattracker.com/faq.php?id=3 here's a list of all of the ACT commands. Replace /act with /echo. I bet 99% of the community doesn't know about this

[Mibhas]

Oh snap. This is pretty great actually - thanks