Concern about proposed DRG adjustments in September

[Kensagaku]

Additionally, there's only one relevant piece of gear that still uses Wyvern: HP+% on it, which is the Vishap Brais/+1. Pteroslaver Greaves moved to HP+#, and Wyvern Mail, Ostreger Mitts, and Updraft Mantle (or Lancer's Pelerine) are all HP+#. So maybe to fix your issue, you simply trigger Healing Breath in your Vishap legs (+23/50 HP on them anyway!) and then by the time the breath goes off and takes hold, it should have calculated the Breath potency. For post-Weapon Skill breaths, that's a bit harder short of WSing in them, but until I see the Strafe trait + merit combo and see that it makes Wyvern breaths relevant, I'm not too unhappy about a gimped breath doing gimped damage. =x

That being said, bring on September! I'm excited to see Dragoon be revitalized.

[Martel]

For post-Weapon Skill breaths, that's a bit harder short of WSing in them, but until I see the Strafe trait + merit combo and see that it makes Wyvern breaths relevant, I'm not too unhappy about a gimped breath doing gimped damage. =x

Elemental breaths use CURRENT wyvern HP in the damage calculation. So you don't swap in WHP+ gear in any case. Only enhances breath gear like wyrm armet, or lancer's torque would be used for elemental breaths.

And even then, you'd only swap in post ws if you were in a low haste situation. At capped haste, you're almost certain to land a melee hit before the breath fires and you swap back to TP gear.

With a 1 second charge time, post update, perhaps swapping in breath+ gear post WS will be more viable.