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Never skip leg day. This analyzer aims to help you keep your life on track and in sync with the rest of your buffs in order to make sure that your jumps land with the most impact in your burst windows. As the DRG rotation is pretty strict, the suggestions you see will focus mostly on keeping that rotation flowing smoothly, as well as picking out issues related to your Life of the Dragon windows and buff alignment.
- Supported Patches:
- 7.0–7.5
- Logged Level:
- 100
- Contributors:
falindrithDeveloper
Checklist
Always be casting
93.8%
Make sure you're always doing something. It's often better to make small mistakes while keeping the GCD rolling than it is to perform the correct rotation slowly.
- GCD Uptime: 93.76%
Keep Power Surge up
99.3%
Disembowel and 
Sonic Thrust grant 
Power Surge which provides a 10% boost to your personal damage and should always be kept up.
- Power Surge uptime: 99.28%
Keep your debuffs up
85.5%
Chaotic Spring provides a potent DoT which should be maintained at all times.
- Chaotic Spring uptime: 85.53%
Use your cooldowns
91.2%
Always make sure to use your actions when they are available, but do not clip your GCD to use them.
High Jump: 24 / 25 (96.00%)
Geirskogul: 12 / 13 (92.31%)
Dragonfire Dive: 6 / 7 (85.71%)
Life Surge: 19 / 20 (95.00%)
Lance Charge: 12 / 13 (92.31%)
Battle Litany: 6 / 7 (85.71%)
Hit your positionals
82.7%
Melee DPS jobs have some skills that will do more damage when used from the rear or flank. Make sure you use those skills in the right position to do the most damage, or use 
True North when you are out of position.
- Chaotic Spring: 24 / 28 (85.71%)
Wheeling Thrust: 25 / 28 (89.29%)
Fang and Claw: 18 / 25 (72.00%)
Suggestions
Try to land at least 8 GCDs during every Lance Charge window.
Lance Charge window.Major
12 GCDs were missed during Lance Charge windows.
Try to land at least 8 GCDs during every Life of the Dragon window.
Major
12 GCDs were missed during Life of the Dragon windows.
Avoid weaving more actions than you have time for in a single GCD window. Doing so will delay your next GCD, reducing possible uptime. Check the Weaving Issues section of the Always Be Casting module below for more detailed analysis.
Major
25 instances of incorrect weavingTry to use as many of your oGCDs as possible during Lance Charge. Remember to keep your abilities on cooldown, when possible, to prevent them from drifting outside of your buff windows.
Lance Charge. Remember to keep your abilities on cooldown, when possible, to prevent them from drifting outside of your buff windows.Medium
4 uses of recommended actions were missed during Lance Charge windows.Try to land at least 8 GCDs during every Battle Litany window.
Battle Litany window.Medium
3 GCDs were missed during Battle Litany windows.
Avoid breaking combos, as failing to complete combos costs you a significant amount of DPS and important secondary effects.
Using a combo GCD at the wrong combo step, using non-combo GCDs while inside a combo, missing, or attacking a target that is invulnerable will cause your combo to break.
Medium
You misused 2 combo actions.
Estimated GCD
2.52s
| Life Surge Consumer | Count | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heavens' Thrust | 6 | 33.33% | |
| Drakesbane | 12 | 66.67% |
Always Be Casting
GCD Downtime - 19.51s
| Time | GCD Delay | Actions | Info |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39s | 0.98s |   | 3.50s between GCDs |
| 53s | 0.59s |   | 3.11s between GCDs |
| 56s | 0.81s |   | 3.33s between GCDs |
| 01:15 | 3.53s |  | 6.05s between GCDs |
| 01:23 | 1.97s |  | 4.49s between GCDs |
| 02:59 | 0.86s | | 3.38s between GCDs |
| 03:03 | 0.37s | | 2.89s between GCDs |
| 05:01 | 0.77s |  | 3.29s between GCDs |
| 05:35 | 0.90s | | 3.42s between GCDs |
| 06:08 | 0.24s | | 2.76s between GCDs |
| 08:02 | 0.48s | | 3.00s between GCDs |
| 08:15 | 0.19s |  | 2.71s between GCDs |
| 08:40 | 1.04s | | 3.56s between GCDs |
| 08:44 | 0.24s | | 2.76s between GCDs |
| 09:16 | 0.37s | | 2.89s between GCDs |
| 09:24 | 2.41s |  | 4.93s between GCDs |
| 10:30 | 0.38s | | 2.90s between GCDs |
| 10:33 | 0.51s | | 3.03s between GCDs |
| 11:10 | 0.15s | | 2.67s between GCDs |
| 11:28 | 0.24s | | 2.76s between GCDs |
| 11:43 | 0.95s | | 3.47s between GCDs |
| 11:46 | 0.29s | | 2.81s between GCDs |
| 12:24 | 0.29s | | 2.81s between GCDs |
| 12:35 | 0.95s | | 3.47s between GCDs |
Weaving Issues - 27.55s
| Time | GCD Delay | Actions | Info |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.06s | 0.28s | | 3 weaves 2.80s between GCDs |
| 5.86s | 0.41s | | 3 weaves 2.93s between GCDs |
| 16s | 0.10s | | 2 weaves 2.62s between GCDs |
| 01:04 | 0.86s | | 3 weaves 3.38s between GCDs |
| 02:06 | 0.11s | | 3 weaves 2.63s between GCDs |
| 02:08 | 5.70s | | 7 weaves 8.22s between GCDs |
| 02:19 | 0.42s |  | 2 weaves 2.94s between GCDs |
| 03:16 | 6.54s |  | 8 weaves 9.06s between GCDs |
| 04:15 | 0.36s | | 4 weaves 2.88s between GCDs |
| 04:23 | 0.01s | | 3 weaves 2.53s between GCDs |
| 05:17 | 0.32s | | 3 weaves 2.84s between GCDs |
| 06:42 | 0.06s | | 3 weaves 2.58s between GCDs |
| 06:45 | 0.33s | | 3 weaves 2.85s between GCDs |
| 07:48 | 0.55s | | 2 weaves 3.07s between GCDs |
| 07:51 | 0.77s |  | 4 weaves 3.29s between GCDs |
| 08:47 | 0.64s | | 3 weaves 3.16s between GCDs |
| 08:50 | 0.06s | | 3 weaves 2.58s between GCDs |
| 08:52 | 0.45s | | 4 weaves 2.97s between GCDs |
| 08:55 | 0.81s | | 3 weaves 3.33s between GCDs |
| 09:54 | 0.01s | | 3 weaves 2.53s between GCDs |
| 09:57 | 0.33s | | 2 weaves 2.85s between GCDs |
| 10:53 | 1.71s | | 5 weaves 4.23s between GCDs |
| 10:58 | 1.98s | | 5 weaves 4.50s between GCDs |
| 11:54 | 0.99s | | 3 weaves 3.51s between GCDs |
| 11:58 | 3.76s | | 5 weaves 6.28s between GCDs |
Life of the Dragon
| Time | GCDs | | | | | | | | | | Rotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:05 | 8/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 2/- | |
| 01:07 | 6/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 0/- | |
| 02:08 | 6/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 2/- |  |
| 03:17 | 5/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/- | |
| 04:17 | 8/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/- | |
| 05:18 | 7/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/- | |
| 06:44 | 8/8 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/- | |
| 07:47 | 7/8 | 0/1 | 1/1 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 0/- | |
| 08:50 | 7/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/- | |
| 09:53 | 8/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/- | |
| 10:56 | 7/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/- | |
| 11:57 | 7/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 0/- | |
Lance Charge
Dragonfire Dive has a two minute cooldown and should be used in every other window under optimal circumstances. We do our best in this module to avoid marking windows where Dragonfire Dive was not available as errors.| Time | GCDs | | | | | | | | | | Rotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:05 | 8/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 2/- | |
| 01:06 | 6/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/- | |
| 02:08 | 6/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 0/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 2/- | |
| 03:17 | 5/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/- | |
| 04:17 | 8/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/- | |
| 05:18 | 7/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/- | |
| 06:41 | 8/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 2/- | |
| 07:43 | 8/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/- | |
| 08:49 | 8/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 2/- | |
| 09:53 | 8/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/- | |
| 10:55 | 6/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 2/- | |
| 11:57 | 6/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 0/0 | 0/0 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 0/- | |
Battle Litany
| Time | Players Buffed | GCDs | | | | | | | | | | Rotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 00:05 | 8/8 | 8/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 0/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 2/- | |
| 02:07 | 8/8 | 6/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 2/- | |
| 04:17 | 8/8 | 8/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 2/- | |
| 06:42 | 8/8 | 8/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 2/- | |
| 08:49 | 8/8 | 8/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/- | |
| 10:55 | 7/8 | 7/8 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 3/1 | 1/1 | 1/1 | 2/- | |
Tinctures
| Time | Rotation |
|---|---|
| 00:04 | |
| 06:42 | |
DoTs
| Time | Status | Target | Time Invulnerable |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06:04 |  Chaotic Spring | Wicked Thunder | 0.45s |
Combo Issues
| Start Time | Combo Actions | Broken Time | Combo Breaker | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03:06 | | 03:11 | | Broken Combo |
| 04:58 | | 05:04 | | Broken Combo |
Positionals
| Action | Hits | Misses |
|---|---|---|
| 24/28 | |
| 25/28 | |
| 18/25 |
Defensives
Feint - 5 / 8| Used at 14s |
| 1 extra use available between 01:44 and 02:01 |
| Used at 03:31 |
| 1 extra use available between 05:01 and 05:22 |
| Used at 06:52 |
| Used at 09:26 |
| 1 extra use available between 10:56 and 10:58 |
| Used at 12:28 |
Bloodbath - 3 / 7| 1 extra use available between 0.00s and 47s |
| Used at 02:17 |
| Used at 04:52 |
| 3 extra uses available between 06:22 and 10:23 |
| Used at 11:53 |
Second Wind - 1 / 6| 5 extra uses available between 0.00s and 09:53 |
| Used at 11:53 |
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Resources
Gauges
Raid Buffs
Brotherhood
Battle Litany
Technical Finish
Starry Muse
Medicated
GCD
Proc
Battle Litany
Lance Charge
Life Surge
High Jump
Mirage Dive
Dragonfire Dive
Rise of the Dragon
Geirskogul
Nastrond
Stardiver
Starcross
Winged Glide
Feint
True North
Bloodbath
Wyrmwind Thrust
Second Wind
Changelog
3/15/2026
Akairyu
AkairyuUpdate Always be Casting GCD Delay calculation to better handle longer than normal GCD recasts, such as PCT's Motif spells.
1/11/2026Akairyu
AkairyuImprove DoT uptime calculations for multi-target fights.
1/1/2026Akairyu
Otocephaly
AkairyuOtocephalyUpdated Always Be Casting as the one-stop-shop for reviewing why the GCD wasn't rolling. Contains a generalized version of BLM's Not Casting module, and the output of the Weaving and Interrupts modules.
12/30/2025Akairyu
AkairyuFixed invulnerability checks for Doomtrain Extreme to ensure correct DoT uptime calculations.
3/25/2025falindrith
falindrithUpdated data for patch 7.2.
2/12/2025
AzariahAeroborn
AzariahAerobornFixed an issue that caused AOE attacks to incorrectly report broken combos if they cleaved an invulnerable target.
1/28/2025Akairyu
AkairyuFix recently introduced checklist requirement bugs.
1/26/2025Akairyu
AkairyuUpdated Overheal analysis for all healers and Blue Mage.
1/4/2025Akairyu
AkairyuFixed an issue where raid buff overwrite analysis incorrectly reported issues when the other player was in a different alliance party.
12/3/2024AkairyuAzariahAerobornOtocephaly
AkairyuAzariahAerobornOtocephalyFixed an issue with gauge stack backtrack corrections when modified by events prior to the start of combat.
12/3/2024Akairyu
AkairyuFixed an issue causing initial hits on newly spawned adds to sometimes be treated as hits against an invulnerable target.
11/21/2024AkairyuAzariahAerobornOtocephaly
AkairyuAzariahAerobornOtocephalyFixed prepull actions for defensives for duplicates, weird counts, and missing suggested available times.
11/14/2024falindrith
falindrithAdjust number of expected uses of Nastrond from 3 to 1 for each buff window. Updated data for patch 7.1.
11/13/2024Akairyu
AkairyuFix status icon assets in response to a change in the underlying game data.
11/10/2024Akairyu
AkairyuFixed an issue causing GCD uptime calculation to be overly generous when a pull ended on an instant-casted spell that normally has a cast time.
8/27/2024Otocephaly
OtocephalyAdded blurb and feature for defensives with charges.
8/23/2024Akairyu
AkairyuResolve an issue that could cause raid buff analysis to report fewer players buffed than there actually were.
8/10/2024
ackwell
ackwellFix uptime calculations for precast and end-of-fight actions.
7/28/2024falindrith
falindrithEnable suggestion output for unused procs.
7/21/2024falindrith
falindrithAdded table displaying timeline links to when the Firstminds' Focus gauge was overcapped.
7/9/2024falindrith
falindrithDRG marked as supported for Patch 7.0.
7/3/2024Akairyu
AkairyuUpdate core support for the Dawntrail expansion
6/28/2024falindrith
falindrithInitial DRG support for Dawntrail.