Why are you a Dragoon?

[Troca]

Open ended as Final Fantasy XI's job system is, I understand that one character isn't strictly any one or two classes, but I'm sure many players have a class they favor more than others.

I like pet classes in MMO's, usually, and the idea of a heavily armored lancer fighting alongside a versatile dragon was too appealing to me to pass up. Why do you favor the dragoon?

[Bladewolf]

When I first started I didn't know what job I was going to main... but on the first day while I was running around killing stuff in South Gustaberg, a player ran by me with a little blue wyvern following him and I decided to be a Dragoon.

I always liked Dragoons since the awesomeness of Kain in 4. The fun of using Jump in all of the Final Fantasies that had the command. And only Dragoon can pull off purple.

[Schultz]

Personally I don't really "get" why people decided to play DRG based on previous DRG characters in other FF games. Kain and Cid to me weren't that great.. I could be missing something, but I felt that Freya was more memorable.

Why I leveled DRG is purely a tribute to lost friends. When ever a friend leaves the game, I make it a mission for me to keep their memory alive by leveling the job they treasured the most. I've done it for THF, RDM, SAM, BRD, next up I think is WHM.

Junyi is the player that inspired me to level DRG. He stuck by the job through thick and thin showing non-believers that DRG could parse up there with all the extremely well geared DD. Unfortunately he never got to see it shine in Abyssea.

[Anethia]

The armor looked cool, and I liked the idea of a little adventuring buddy by my side through anything with the only time limit being a recall timer. Bst was all well and good but the threat of the mob coming to it's senses and eating you was a turn off. The honor of the dragoon is that they will do anything and everything to protect those around them, even at the cost of their own life, they will even die to protect their wyvern, and the wyvern will die to protect the dragoon. I just wyvern appearance could have changed as we lvl'd the job. Changing colors or taking on a smaller version of the wyverns we see roam the wild.

[Wenceslao]

I always played mage jobs in every game, so i really wanted to do something different, by the time i started to play FFXI, everyone called DRG the loljob (loldrg), then i just took it up as a challenge to get something different and try to change taht image of the job, i must admit i hadn't any idea of DD when i became one, but once i started i just got amused by DRG potential and abilities that i'll never change my favorite job once again (DRG FTW!), we are loljob no more, and i think we are one of the stronger jobs in the game if played properly, and the wyvern, damn it looks so cool beside you!

[JagerForrester]

Now it could be as easy as saying my favorite creature are dragons, and my favorite color is blue, but then I love to tell my FFXI stories.

I remember my first days I logged into Final Fantasy XI. I was in Zeruhn Mines doing the first Bastok Mission. I was completely stunned when I saw another character in the distance running around with a dragon flying behind him. I had to think for a second if that really was a dragoon. I read about it, but it didn't look interesting in the spring guide. Few days later, I was at the Auction House in Bastok Mines, and I saw another Dragoon, but this time up close and in full Artifact Armor. And back then, the armor looked awesome. So I vowed then to become a dragoon, and when I did, I enjoyed every bit of leveling it, until the 2handed and Hasso/Seigan updates were released, and it took off from there. Sure I got made fun of for being a dragoon by my linkshell. But one day my shell and I were going to zerg Kirin, and the leader had an app going to track damage. There was a SAM, me, and a DRK as the top 3. The DRK died early on due to not being able to take a hit with SoulEater on, I remember I was getting hit as well, so I Super Jumped, and the SAM had to Seigan the rest of the fight. When the leader told me I did the 2nd most damage at that run, I declared bragging rights that I was no longer an lolDRG, and should be treated like a real DD. So, I got picked on even more, but never let them forget that I can do damage and still live in a zerg on the frontlines. Since then, I've been on a 2yr break, and I'm now back reclaiming my bragging rights, starting off with being able to completely solo skillchain both light and darkness.

[Kjara]

As an horse trainer as I am in real life, I wanted a FFXI job where I could have a companion fighting side by side with me without limits of time.
Beastmaster was going to be my pick, but I really didn't like the idea of the pet turning to attack me every now and then, or leaving after some time with jugs. Summoner wasn't quite my style, as I'm not used to stay back and watch my pet get hurt, not to mention they'd leave soon as I couldn't feed them with MP anymore. And lastly, PUP's overloading issues really left me disappointed. Wyverns don't do any of those things and are loyal fellows^^ Plus blue is my favourite color, so I couldn't resist but pick DRG as my first 75 (and now 90). DRG FTW!
I just wish more stuff was released for wyverns, not necessarily battle-related.
Like the possibility of seeing your wyvern in mog house, sleeping on the bed (sorta like your dog in Fable III), or wyvern changing color/shape based on the type (support, offensive, balanced). As a Drakengard fan I can't help but always hope for more crazy stuff to be added for wyverns.

[JagerForrester]

If I could have my wyvern with me at all times, I would. But the cities don't allow pets in the city walls except Al Zahbi. It's a poop issue or some kind of congestion.

[Ralos]

When I first started I had planned to be a SMN, however I had chosen Elvaan for my race and everything I read about the SMN job basicly said Elvaan and Galka don't make very good SMNs (an unfortunate lie I happened to believe at the time) so I decided I would go with a Damage dealing job. When I first saw the Dragoon's wyvern, I decided I wanted to play that job. I fell in love with job even more after unlocking it as the story of the job's quest was rather enjoyable for me. I played DRG for awhile and loved and then the day came when I got penta-thrust! and then ONE DAY LATER the TP nerf update happened. For awhile DRGs were considered gimp DDs and I almost gave the job up until I discovered a sort of pride in the job. It was fun for me to see a DRG, be given the "Dragoon Secret Handshake" and then continue on my way, and I play the game for fun so that was all that mattered to me. Also I thought the AF looked freakin' awesome lol. After DRG, I had of course learned much about the game and no longer held the closed-minded concept that Elvaan couldn't make good SMNs and so I leveled SMN myself, but I found I didn't hold the same love for it as I did for DRG. I've leveled other jobs and I now have DRG SMN PLD NIN BLM and MNK at 90 but DRG is the job I consider my main. It's the job I think of first when deciding what gear I want to claim or the job I want to be on when I'm completing a storyline mission (I know I'm kind of weird) and there's a strange pride about it.

I am a proud Dragoon.

[Anucris]

I planned to be a dragoon from the start, the AF gear "looked" cool, lance, wyvern, jump attacks all appealed to me. since then I have leveled drg, had to switch accounts and lvled a new drg straight to 90. It Is my job and I dont know if i'll lvl another job to 90 just for the principle that I always want to play drg. I am the drg in my LS and i like it that way