Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[Vodomir]

Haha yes when in a dungeon with a bard, I like to disembowel everything off the bat for them. Much easier now we don't have to move to rear for each one. it's pewpewpew done.

What? You severely gimp your own DPS just to put Disembowel up on multiple targets for your bard? oO

Your Bard won't win enough DPS to compensate the DPS you are wasting as a DRG. Either multi-dot the targets on your own or go flat out AoE to speed things up.

[kyrios91]

It works best with a much lower Skill Speed. 389 so far is working very, very well without having to slow down my button presses on purpose. 408 was also half decent, but I had to delay the CT/FT every couple of Life Surges by a few split seconds. I think for simplicities sake, keeping Life Surge with Full Thrusts (60s intervals) works the smoothest for all skill speeds and much less risk involved. Having to slightly slow-down your cooldowns at higher SkillSpeeds will hinder your DPS, but it's nice to see that there is something else that does provide a slight DPS increase that we can work on.

For those using this rotation, it's better if you open with B4B then IR. That way your LS will always be up exactly during the GCD before FT / CT. If you use IR then B4B, most of the time B4B would have like a 1 second or so delay when FT / CT is up thus making you wait for LS to be up.

[RachaelMarie22]

What? You severely gimp your own DPS just to put Disembowel up on multiple targets for your bard? oO

Your Bard won't win enough DPS to compensate the DPS you are wasting as a DRG. Either multi-dot the targets on your own or go flat out AoE to speed things up.

I mean for like a group of 3 mobs, then I plop CT on the next target along. Any bigger is aoe time. Stuff dies fast now cause of my gear so I just go lazy mode in dungeons.

[Vodomir]

I mean for like a group of 3 mobs, then I plop CT on the next target along. Any bigger is aoe time. Stuff dies fast now cause of my gear so I just go lazy mode in dungeons.

Even then I find it more efficient to just mulit-dot the targets or AoE them down, if they are balled up in way that you can land Doomspike on all three of them.

[RachaelMarie22]

I just like helping my bard friends ^.^ they give me the precious teepee so I should give something in return hehe

[Aiurily]

For those using this rotation, it's better if you open with B4B then IR. That way your LS will always be up exactly during the GCD before FT / CT. If you use IR then B4B, most of the time B4B would have like a 1 second or so delay when FT / CT is up thus making you wait for LS to be up.

depends on your skillspeed tbh. for me with ht>ir>id>psbfb it comes up once or twice right before FT, and then the 3rd or so it comes up for phlebotomize (same potency as FT)

[Dervy]

Yup. Also depending on your Skill Speed, your Jump will either fit in between two GDCs, or you'll have to delay the usage of Jump by 1s to go after the next GDC. You never want to delay your GDC's to use your off Cooldowns.

[FyrmurlFloerasksyn]

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but I am i111 and have 452 SS. Is this fine at all? I have pretty much close to the BiS for my ilv according to ariyalla site. So wasn't sure, thats all. Thanks!

[Dervy]

Yes, 452 is fine. Just make sure you're using Life Surge only on Full Thrusts, rather than rotating between FT and CT. I also noticed that the Pre-T13 BiS set I posted uses Flint Caviars, and I know a lot of you won't want to fork out 25-30k gil per food, so here it is with Black Truffle Risotto.

Pre-T13 @ 535 Acc w/ Black Truffle Risotto
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/OUAY

[HulveinBlitz]

Yes, 452 is fine. Just make sure you're using Life Surge only on Full Thrusts, rather than rotating between FT and CT. I also noticed that the Pre-T13 BiS set I posted uses Flint Caviars, and I know a lot of you won't want to fork out 25-30k gil per food, so here it is with Black Truffle Risotto.

Pre-T13 @ 535 Acc w/ Black Truffle Risotto
http://ffxiv.ariyala.com/OUAL

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