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Mimic chaining is an easy way to increase your damage on any DPS. By slotting in just one extra action during the opener, you'll increase that opener's damage by 65%.
Use Mimic before pulling. You can't use it once the boss is pulled, so if you want to apply a Dervish or Cure IV prepull do so when the countdown starts, not when it's about to end.
Ensure you slot over your Lost Excellence with a useful action. While it’s expensive, holding on to Excellence through a whole fight is a huge damage loss, even compared to not bringing it at all.
Do as much as you can in the opener. A large part of your damage in DRS comes from the opener with Excellence’s boost. Focus on dealing as much as you can during this small 30-second window.
Wait to use Font of Power/Magic until after slotting over Excellence. You can get a few extra seconds of the massive damage boost the Fonts provide by waiting to use it until after all the overslotting is done.
Always check the target's Reminiscence buff before Mimicking them, as many casters and phys. ranged will want to wait until the countdown begins to slot in Excellence. Doing so allows them to apply Bravery and Dervish respectively to their parties early, meaning they can wait to slot in that second action until after their opener.
In DRS, more damage means less seeing mechanics, which means less deaths. As a DPS, especially a Melee DPS, doing damage is the main reason you're there. If you want to improve your damage and make clearing easier, make sure you…
...practice your rotation. There are striking dummies in the Bozjan Southern Front and Zadnor, so if you need to get used to your opener or haste-boosted rotation, go practice on them! This is also a great place to practice slotting in actions for Mimic chaining, or just seeing how different actions work.
...get comfortable with the fights. The biggest damage loss is death, so if you really want to raise your damage you'll need to first be comfortable with all the mechanics. As you get your deaths down, you can also start using higher-damage action loadouts like the ones used for Mimic chaining.
Lost Flare Star is a special action usable only by Magical DPS and limited to one user per raid. It has the highest potential damage of any role as well as the most room for failure, so educating yourself on how to use it properly is crucial.
shows the slotting you'll do at the start of each major fight.
(high damage, with space for a few Reraisers)
(no reraisers, highest damage on every fight)
...have read your tooltips. The action tooltips explain exactly what each action does, so if you don't understand all your buttons then this should be your first stop. If you're struggling to understand what any of your abilities do, I recommend checking for basic information on how jobs work.
...have learned your opener. A large amount of your damage contribution in DRS is concentrated in your opener and any subsequent 2-minute bursts. The opener especially deals a ton of damage and sets you up for success, so practicing is very important. Refer to the pins of in FOE for the most up-to-date info.
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