jumps should make you invincible during the actual jump

Hmm the attack animaiton of jump is quite long. So is this skill actually useful in any situation, cause I can only see the combo True Thrust-Vorpal Thrust-->Full Thrust or just any other high potency ability with lower attack animation do better than jump atm

I wouldn't mind it giving a increase to defense to help stay off most of the damage yet still be vulnerable to attack. This will help give jump some type of usefulness yet still keep the game working in a sense. I can see that this can be abuse in the long run through. But at least give us the additional damage to flying enemy's!!!!!!!!

Invincibility would make it broken...you would have dragoons ignoring all mechanics with good timing of jumps.

The much better, more balanced solution is to allow you to move in the middle of a jump, instead of locking you into the animation.

This way, you have to dodge just like everyone else, however, you won't be penalized for using your attacks.

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Originally Posted by Tessman

So, this isn't a single player game, and part of the difference is that mechanically, the game doesn't get to go off the deep end of design.

Invincibility 'frames' in MMOs are really troublesome. They tend to be really easy to abuse and are so very problematic for the team once someone figures out how to abuse them. You have to understand that minor mechanical inconsistencies with The Lore™ are not only going to happen (A big one being elemental weaknesses), but show up quite a bit and introducing things like 'invincibility mid-jump' for a Dragoon is a recipe for disaster.

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The feature was in FFXI which is an MMORPG. I don't think it would break the game in anyway. So I would not mind seeing it done. Loved seeing a Dragoon avoid Astral Flows in Dynamis.

they need to be faster, so at least it feels like an offcooldown ability instead a normal ability :/

As other people have said, this wouldn't be the best fit. The actual time you are in the air isn't that long, so if you used it as a aoe avoidance thing it could easily still kill you. Though I don't agree with the whole idea that it negligates the end game content. A second of invulnerability every 45 seconds isn't going to ruin anything, and it's not like jumping is all that much harder than strafing. The real solution would be for you to be able to control where your jump lands. So if you hit jump and an aoe pops on you you can still strafe out, though a small invulnerability wouldn't hurt either as it is basically the entire reason for jump in ff games. Dragoons are already screwed in many fights, as we are constantly moving to get our positional buffs/debuffs up. A little help for us wouldn't ruin anything.

it would make DRG broken in PvP

I strongly agree with the OP. Jumping to avoid damage has been a class-defining thing with Dragoons for so long... I dont think it would break anything to have a few seconds of invulnerability every 40sec when you cant move or react while you are in mid-jump anyway. Dragoon would be so much more fun if this was done.
And to the person who said that DRGs would just jump to avoid things instead of dodging them -- thats what Dragoons DO! Nothing wrong with that, especially not with a 40sec cooldown! The player is still reacting, they are just pressing their jump ability instead of their strafe button.

Jump made you invulnerable to some attacks during the jump sequence in version 1.0. I don't know why they changed it. Bad choice in my opinion.

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Originally Posted by Sterob

it would make DRG broken in PvP

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Except PvP has a whole new set ability's planned. That way they if they need to balance something for PvP, it does not ruin anything outside of PvP. So it is irrelevant.