Regarding Jump and High Jump, we decided to restrict the adjustments to increasing damage dealt, so we will only be shortening the recast timer for now. (We are scrapping the idea of allowing High Jump to lower hate for the party member closest to the player from behind.)
Good call. The High Jump hate thing was worthless as it's worthless with Spirit Jump during Spirit Surge.


Not choosing the right breath makes sense as that what separates us from BST/PUP/SMN. Dragoon do not have dominion over their Wyverns like how BSTS charm and enslave their pets, PUP commands their Automaton with the Animator or SMN sacrifice their life force to fulfill a pact. No, the Wyvern accompanies the Dragoon because it wants to, it has a spiritual bond. Even so, the Wyvern seems weak in comparison to other pets both in endurance and damage. Elemental Breaths do 10-100 damage and are often resisted even with Strafe and Dragoon's Earring. As it stands now, on stronger NMs like Voidwatch, Wyverns serve nothing more than a TP-Battery through Spirit/Soul . Their individual hits deal 10-20 damage and are responsible for less than 1% total damage.

Wyverns are weak and Dragoons feel weak because Stardiver and Drakesbane are just weak against strong enemies compared to Tachi:Shoha, Victory Smite, Ukko's Fury,Resolution and other powerful weapon skills. With the new updates, Dragoons will have a fantasic amount of TP but our weapon skills are so weak it we don't feel that strong.

We want to avoid players only using Spirit Jump and Soul Jump because they have a wyvern. Rather, we would like players to choose between “Jump and High Jump” or “Soul Jump and Spirit Jump” based on the circumstances.
This is valid and understandable but perhaps you should look into making Spirit Jump and Soul Jump the more offensive Jumps with their critical hit and extra TP and make Jump and High Jump into defensive style Jumps.

High Jump already sheds hate but perhaps adding a moderately strong Accuracy Down that decays like "Flash" and a Stun effect to Jump that is as potent as the Blue Magic "Sudden Lunge" would be prudent.