7.1 Dragoon Changes Complaints

What gets me is that this is like, say for Paladin: removing all of the blades and going back to only one confiteor. Or DRK: if delerium only gave you one stack, or Dancer being capped at one feather every burst window.
Why remove a core skill when you could remove something generic like life surge? Or better yet, LET US HAVE A BUSY CLASS.

Also just... it is so weird having 20 seconds to do Nastrond, stardiver, starcross, that takes 9 seconds to weave. With 3 Nastrond and 15 seconds to weave the full burst the timer used to make sense, there was urgency to hitting your nastronds and stardiver/cross. I've lost starcross and nastronds to chaos in a fight. That's good. It makes me want to try harder. Playing today, that urgency is gone now.

Please please give the fun back to the job! Literally no DRG main was complaining about the weaving.

Welcome Dragoons, how is the Viper Treatment? isnt it delicious?

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Originally Posted by AvoSturmfaust

Welcome Dragoons, how is the Viper Treatment? isnt it delicious?

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Kinda ironically Viper is one of the jobs I'm considering swapping to after these changes. Not that I'm exactly happy with the direction it went with the changes in 7.05, but right now my priority is to contribute to a drop in the number of people playing DRG to further send the message about how bad these changes are, and aside from RPR which is also deeply flawed at level 100 it's the only melee I have ready.

The only positive I had for 7.0 "rework" was 3 Nastrond stacks during 1 min burst window, but Square managed to screw up even that. It is really sad to see my favorite job since I started playing in Stormblood devolve into this boring mess with 0 identity left.

bruhhhh

take our tether
take OUR JUMPS
take the jankfun animation lock
take the eyes on my gauge
take the buttom spam
take away the fun positional combos

What on earth are they thinking? I have been so unmotivated to play since Dawntrail released. I thought DRG was lobotomized already, somehow they've made it worse.

I guess I'll keep trudging through a bland MSQ so I can play a bland job?

Posting to show my support, I'm not a Dragoon main but it's one of my favorite jobs, the devs need to stop killing job identity and let jobs be unique. Stop ruining gameplay by turning every job into something different and more bland. The whole reason I leveled up every job to 100 was to have fun learning them all and what makes them different. If I don't like how it plays, I can play one of the other many jobs. I love that Dragoon is all about being super busy with a ton of oGCDs, stop taking that away.

Joined XIV on the last week of SB and have been Dragoon from ARR until EW. Only reason I swapped to VPR was cause I wanted DT to be a new chapter for my WoL. DRG has always been the job defined, in my opinion, as a Buffer, Long GCD and many oGCDs, and of course Jumping. I would always praise DRG for being one of the most fluid jobs where you never felt a moment of slowness despite the long GCD because of the abundant oGCDs. But I want to know, who asked for this?

You took away Dragon Sight but I tolerated it. You took away Spineshatter Jump but I tolerated it. You took away Nastrond, now I question if you understand DRG's identity because to those of us who have played DRG over these years are beginning to not recognize it. I want to know who asked for this and if they actually play DRG or just complaining because they aren't good enough.

7.0 DRG was fun, it was busy, and that was the point. If people want to slow down they should play other jobs with more weaving freedom. If you wanted to free up weaving for DRG, get rid of Life Surge and give us an actual useful personal mitigation thats not tied to damage.

Meanwhile, in simplification jail.

Viper: Hey you new here?
Dragoon: Yeah just got here. You?
Viper: Been here since 7.05. What are you in for?
Dragoon: I had 2 of my Nastrond stacks removed for no reason.
Viper: I feel that. I had Noxious Gnash taken away and replaced with nothing.
Dragoon: What about them?
Viper: That's Reaper. They were born here.
Dragoon: Bummer. What's the deal with the skeleton in the corner?
Viper: That's Monk. They've been here for 3 expansions.

Reporting after actually playing with this live and idk about anyone else but the burst just lost all of its burst feel for me. Not much hope they listen but this just took so much joy out of it