Dragoon Meriting

[Ophannus]

5/5 Angon is a must, if anything take away from DB if you wanna add another Empathy, but in general a hasted wyvern's DoT is still a drop in the bucket, but another few minutes off of Deep Breathing is omguseful. Pic related: http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/4...0505012151.png

Your first post that stated 5/5angon 4/5DB 1/5 empathy is really the gold standard of DRG group 2 merits until they/if they get rebalanced or changed. I hope all Dragoons here see the merit (no pun intended) of this combination.

5/5 Angon is a must, no questions asked. It's 90 seconds of -20% defense down, that's Dia IV without the DoT and no mob will resist it. Not only does it give DEF down, but it will also dispel and negate DEF UP abilities like Cocoon/Harden Shell etc. Infact the DEF down from Angon is such high priority, some DEF UP abilities will fail to take effect when Angon is up.

4/5 Deep Breathing is so useful as outlined above. If DRG is your main job, make it a priority to go out there and collect Wyrm Armet, Wyvern Mail, Drachen Brais+1, Lancer's Earring, Ostreger Mitts and Lancer's Torque(or Chanoix Gorget). Now that we have can use HBIII regardless of SJ via Restoring Breath there's no reason not to collect gear that enhances it, turning a crappy 200HP heal into a heavy 500-600 HP, 0 MP cure V.

1/5 Empathy. Honestly the only reason this is here is cuz it allows you to Spirit Link while the wyvern is at 100% which is useful if you Spirit Link to take 50% of your wyvern's TP. Situational at best but better than nothing. Could be used to give your wyvern shell if its the first buff cast on you, and haste later but bufs like haste/blood rage/march/rolls are so underwhelming on the Wyvern due to their natural low base DMG, it's not even worth it. If wyverns had some physical blood pacts reliant on TP or if breaths did a ton more dmg based on TP, I'd say why not.