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I skimmed through your log and threw it into the XIVanalysis tool as well. First, the XIV analysis says your GCD uptime is a bit low, as well as your Blood Weapon usage. As far as the BW uptime goes, you may be able to ignore it. You used BW 10 times in a 6:51 (411s) fight, and with the amount of downtime I'm not sure you can really fit in another one. Looking at some top DRK logs, XIVanalysis is also flagging them for the same thing. The GCD uptime is almost certainly something you can improve.
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For 2nd Graven, make sure you (and the other melee range classes) are getting one of the spots closer to the boss. Use potions if you're flirting with the enrage timer Looking at your logs some more.You're not using enough. 9 uses in a 411s fight. That's 2-4 more you could have had.
There might be a way to get another C&S as well. Looking beyond your DPS to how you might be able to improve your group's DPS. I see you're tanking the first and last quarter of the fight, while your cotank has the boss for the middle half.
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This distribution doesn't make efficient use of each tank's cooldowns. Where are your? FFLogs shows for you, and only 1 TBN. TBN might be DPS-neutral for you, but it's extremely useful for your healers' DPS. You can pretty much use it on CD except when you know a buster is coming (that you're not cheesing with LD). As for Rampart/Shadow Wall, you have the boss for about half the fight. The boss autos hard enough that even using it for those is far better than not using them.
This is all the low hanging fruit I found for you. PS: For your scholar: there is pretty much nothing in Clown Kefka that would justify Sacred Soil, unless you guys are trying to cheese LB or something with it.
Teach him to use Deployment Tactics Adlo (and/or get your team to learn to get closer for it) In fact, at further glance your scholar is not really even managing Aetherflow stacks at all. 8 Indoms (good), vs 5 Physick (lol), (wut), and (wat) This is 14 AF skills used. In a 6:51 fight there should be the potential of 25-30. You guys are doing fairly well with Reprisal/Addle Usage. Just in case it's not clear, improving your defensive performance may not result in higher DPS numbers for you, but it can for your cotank and healers. If the mitigation is not needed just indom Agreed The sacred soild part is wrong. With deploy adlo you lose 190 potency from broil while ss 'costs' you 150 potency from energy drain What you say is true theoretically.
In practice, this is just Clown Kefka's Light, and I also doubt OP's group has the precision where SS alone means the difference between people living or dying. At this level, these raid busters are almost certainly going to be prepped with GCD shields. The scholar in question is already spamming Succor, Indom and SS.
In practice, I was suggesting OP have his scholar replace Succor with Deploy Adlo and drop the SS altogether. Of course it's possible to optimize even further, but that requires even more changes and coordination.
XIV analysis says your GCD uptime is a bit low, as well as your Blood Weapon usage. As far as the BW uptime goes, you may be able to ignore it. You used BW 10 times in a 6:51 (411s) fight, and with the amount of downtime I'm not sure you can really fit in another one. Looking at some top DRK logs, XIVanalysis is also flagging them for the same thing. The GCD uptime is almost certainly something you can improve. For 2nd Graven, make sure you (and the other melee range classes) are getting one of the spots closer to the boss. Use potions if you're flirting with the enrage timer Looking at your logs some more.You're not using enough.
9 uses in a 411s fight. That's 2-4 more you could have had. There might be a way to get another C&S as well. I know I can fit 1 cs before the first phase, this try didnt go well tho:P The plunge hold was mostly for pushes, since I have no anti knockbacks for the fight. But it could be I can get something else around!
The bad thing is that I have like 220 ping, so double weaving and response is a bit low in my computer, Could that be the reeason my cds are about 91,6%? Looking beyond your DPS to how you might be able to improve your group's DPS. I see you're tanking the first and last quarter of the fight, while your cotank has the boss for the middle half. This distribution doesn't make efficient use of each tank's cooldowns. Where are your?
FFLogs shows for you, and only 1 TBN. TBN might be DPS-neutral for you, but it's extremely useful for your healers' DPS. You can pretty much use it on CD except when you know a buster is coming (that you're not cheesing with LD).
As for Rampart/Shadow Wall, you have the boss for about half the fight. The boss autos hard enough that even using it for those is far better than not using them. Totally right, I focus so much in the rotation that forget that im being hammered in the mouth with kefka kicks This is all the low hanging fruit I found for you. PS: For your scholar: there is pretty much nothing in Clown Kefka that would justify Sacred Soil, unless you guys are trying to cheese LB or something with it. Teach him to use Deployment Tactics Adlo (and/or get your team to learn to get closer for it) In fact, at further glance your scholar is not really even managing Aetherflow stacks at all.
8 Indoms (good), vs 5 Physick (lol), (wut), and (wat) This is 14 AF skills used. In a 6:51 fight there should be the potential of 25-30. You guys are doing fairly well with Reprisal/Addle Usage. Perfect, will communicate this to our healer so he can have it in mind, specially since he is kinda new with us!
Just in case it's not clear, improving your defensive performance may not result in higher DPS numbers for you, but it can for your cotank and healers. The bad thing is that I have like 220 ping, so double weaving and response is a bit low in my computer, Could that be the reeason my cds are about 91,6%?
It's possible. Look into a VPN (Mudfish is extremely cheap, with FFXIV using maybe $3-6 of data per year, and just using FastConnect will add smoothness to double weaves. However, I don't think that would account for all of the downtime. One common mistakes dark knights make is double weaving with DA right after a DA used the previous GCD. For example Hard Slash - (DA) - Syphon Strike - forced delay + (DA) + (Plunge/C&S) - Souleater Another one is using DA late.
Something like BW should be used as late as possible without clipping (so it stays on just a bit longer to fit one more attack). Something like DA needs to be used as early as possible (so if you use it after the next GCD the delay won't force a clip). Hard Slash - unnecessary delay + (DA) - Syphon Strike - forced delay + (DA) - Souleater These sequences clip the GCD because the 3s cooldown of DA (longer than the GCD) Are you able to Plunge (or at least Sprint) back for Kefka's knockback after 2nd Graven? If you're using your cotank's Cover+Tempered for that, it's much better utilized for soaking a Hyperdrive (natural 20% reduction + further reduced by Sentinel/Sheltron) Don't hold Plunge too long, either, as it's pretty much worth a GCD worth of damage just by itself. The 2-4 uses you lost due to holding it translated to 2-4 GCDs lost.
Some pushes can be worth holding for. But if you have to hold too long, just ready Sprint when you see the green ball. With just Sprint you should be able to get back fast enough to lose just a small fraction of a GCD tops. In general, I think with cooldown usage, a lot of tanks don't use cooldowns, and then find a few places to insert cooldowns that become absolutely necessary. Try to take the other approach. Use cooldowns (at least Rampart and TBN) as much as possible, until you encounter some mechanic that absolutely needs it, then simply do a shift as necessary.
This approach results in more 'default' mitigation, and also lets you and your cotank pinpoint good spots for tank swaps (or at least Covers). Basically, the tl;dr version is this: 1.) Use Blood Weapon as late into the gap between GCDs as possible (around when your GCD 'clock' is pointing at the lower right corner).
This can help you get an extra hit worth of MP before it ends. If you double weave with BW, use BW second.
2.) Use DA as early into the gap between GCDs as possible. This ensures that if you're doing consecutive DAs (like Syphon + Souleater), the second DA doesn't get delayed so long that it clips your GCD and delays Souleater. 3.) You will probably occasionally clip anyways.
Better to clip a bit than overcap Someone who plays dark knight more than I do can probably explain this clearer and in more detail. HS (DA+PLUNGE) SS ( DA+CS) The second DA will clip here. The first DA prevents you from double weaving your next window =starting= with DA You're safe if you have just DA in that window, or if you have DA as the second oGCD. HS (DA+CS) SS (Plunge+DA) SE (do not use DA here) BS This would work. Note that the (forced) late application of the second DA means you should not use DA at all in the gap after SE. Another note: make sure to avoid opening the fight with CS/Plunge.
Delay a bit for slashing debuff, TA, and other raid buffs to come up You lose the enmity bonus from Plunge, but you have a ninja in your group, you're already pulling with Grit optional DA PS, so you really don't need to push that hard to get the enmity bonus there. Between BS, Plunge, SE, SS, it doesn't really matter which skills you buff (BS and SE are heavy favorites in Grit, but this isn't applicable to you here).
It's 140 potency of slashing damage. As a side note then, try to avoid buffing DP on single target with DA, as the 140 bonus potency here is not slashing.
(That said, if you're in BW, about to hit SS with already active DA buff, and about to overcap MP due to SS, then DP is preferred to overcapping).