Dragoon Manifesto thoughts

[OMEGA_HACK]

Ability Name: Spirit Scout (Stance 1):
Flavor Text: Sends your Wyvern high into the sky to keep a watch out for the Dragoon.
Effects: While under this stance the Wyvern disappears from combat (is still considered out though), not being able to be attacked from any damage nor can it attack any target. Dragoon gains the ability of Wide Scan III, gains an increase to defensive stats: Vitality+10, Agility+10, Defense+45, Magical Defense+15, Enemy Critical Hit Rate-15%, Parry+25. CANNOT use Breath Commands while under this stance.
Duration: 2 hours
Recast: 3 minutes

I don't think this stance is really too bad and I think its a fair trade off, if anything you could use it as a "oh crap get that Wyvern out of the damage" and then switch to another stance after the spell/ability goes off

Ability Name:Spirit Bond (Stance 2)
Flavor Text: The Wyvern and Dragoon share their strengths and weaknesses.
Effects: Grants the Dragoon an increase to offensive stats: Strength+10, Dexterity+5, Attack+25, Critical Hit Damage+15%, Store TP+30 while decreasing their defensive stats: Vitality-10, Agility-10, Defense-25. Grants the Wyvern an increase to offensive stats: Attack+30, Accuracy+30, Critical Hit Rate+10%, Haste+15%.
Duration: 2 hours
Recast: 3 minutes

Removed the magic defense decrease as well as the enemy crit hit rate penalty, that should make it more on par with Hasso/Siegan stances in terms of the trade off, increased the Crit damage by +5%, took out the accuracy buff and replaced with store TP+

Ability Name: Spirit Breath (Stance 3)
Flavor Text: The Dragoon focuses his strengths within the Wyvern to increase survivability.
Effects: Grants the Wyvern with various beneficial stat increases: Wyvern HP+500, Healing Breath Potency+10%, Elemental Breath Potency+10%, Wyvern Damage Taken-30, Breath Recast-10. Grants the Dragoon with various stat alterations: HP-250, Spell cast/recast+50%.
Duration: 2 hours
Recast: 3 minutes

Took out the "slow" effect that the Dragoon would suffer from, as that seems too severe of a penalty for a stance as well as took out the Wyvern Def/mdef since it would be getting a straight -damage taken effect, and increased the HB pot by +5%, also changed the penalties for drg to be less severe

What about those stance revisions? While I would love to be the omg pwned you job I would rather have a realistic suggestion that "might" be considered.

[Amador]

That would be a rough one, Hasso is give or take 9.?% Haste /WAR would provide +10% DA and +150~ attack give or take. During Berserk it's be interesting to see if 9% Haste is worth 150 attack, and 10% DA. If the attack is needed and pushes your damage up, I figure the ATK would win out.

But yes, in all zergs /SAM is amazing. If you're not taking of course. It's just common knowledge how strong /WAR Drakesbanes are, and jumps with that substantial boost.

In the end though, /SAM is just too valuable to pass up.

[OMEGA_HACK]

yeah /sam is too valuable and imo kind of sad, I wish I could use other subjobs (which is why I threw in the STP in those stance revisions to maybe sway away from /sam dependence).

[Dauntless]

That would be a rough one, Hasso is give or take 9.?% Haste /WAR would provide +10% DA and +150~ attack give or take. During Berserk it's be interesting to see if 9% Haste is worth 150 attack, and 10% DA. If the attack is needed and pushes your damage up, I figure the ATK would win out.

But yes, in all zergs /SAM is amazing. If you're not taking of course. It's just common knowledge how strong /WAR Drakesbanes are, and jumps with that substantial boost.

In the end though, /SAM is just too valuable to pass up.

Well this is factoring out STP and Meditate.

[Amador]

You get an A for Effort Hack

Decent Ideas like I said, just would require tons of balancing and revising.

[Amador]

No it's considering STP only, for a 5-6 hit. It's not in regards to meditate though. It's just a flat: 9% haste vs 150 attack 10% da consideration only. We all know /SAM works best, not trying to dig into that. Don't mind it :|

[Leonlionheart]

Parsed myself against a bud of mine who was using lolGungnir back in a bird party @75 cap. I was /sam he was /war, and I outparsed him fairly well.

Note to the population of FFXI: DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE HASTE. IT IS, BY FAR THE BEST STAT YOU COULD EVER HAVE.

[Leonlionheart]

No it's considering STP only, for a 5-6 hit. It's not in regards to meditate though. It's just a flat: 9% haste vs 150 attack 10% da consideration only. We all know /SAM works best, not trying to dig into that. Don't mind it :|

Closer to 10% than 9%

[Leonlionheart]

@Omega_Hack's stances:

STP+30 would require 22 additional STP in gear for 5 hit, and if you continue to sub /sam only 44 for a 4hit (VERY possible). Way too much. 15 would be strong, 10 would be more reasonable. Critical Hit Damage should only be at most +10%.

The defensive stats are a bit overpowering too, though not nearly as much as STP+30...

Edit: Triple post, don't know why i didn't just edit one post... my bad :[

[Yugl]

Ok, well I'm not sure about actual parses, but with March+haste+hasso, you will without a doubt do more damage than /WAR possibly could

Good point! Lets you change a song though. Even if that's not the case, AoE buffs and enfeeblement were the general idea, not necessarily haste.