Dragoon Job changes in 6.0

We saw the Job Actions trailer (which was wonderful), and we're still working through the magic dps job adjustments now, but as a Dragoon main since I started playing, I would like to discuss the changes coming to the job in Endwalker.

Since the Live Letter is still running as I type this, please be aware that this is still new information, some speculation, and to some people this may seem like spoilers. Please be advised and read on if you like.

I'm super excited to have two Spineshatters, and more AOE (Ring of Thorns back??), and new actions. I'm also pleased that, with Blood of the Dragon being changed to a trait, I won't need to feel the pain of losing my Blood during in-fight cutscenes. However, I was deeply pained when I saw in the Job Action trailer that the blue fire effect of Blood of the Dragon was gone. I'm hoping beyond hope that the effect was turned off to better see the actions, but with the changes to Blood, well...

I'd really hate to lose that blue dragon aura. I adore it. I know it doesn't change gameplay, but it makes me so happy to see it. I'm not as fond of the red Life one. If the Blood of the Dragon aura will still be in game, I'd love to be reassured. If it's not, let me beg and plead for it to be added in, even if it just activates when you gain your first Dragon Eye and lasts until you activate Life.

Dragoon got much simpler. Not a fan. Same with Black Mage. Lowers the skill floor IMO. You only worry about Eyes and positionals.

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Originally Posted by MagiusNecros

Dragoon got much simpler. Not a fan. Same with Black Mage. Lowers the skill floor IMO. You only worry about Eyes and positionals.

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you never worried about BotD anyway it was almost impossible to drop

To be fair, with the time on the gauge matching the cooldown of Blood of the Dragon, changing Blood to a trait doesn't change much except when you're locked out of refreshing, like in a cutscene or active time event. It is simpler, and I'll miss having Blood as a skill, but it had already been heading in that direction. Which is not to say this is absolutely a good progression, just that the change from skill to trait doesn't change much, not from level 80.

I still prefer Blood as a skill that needs to be used and kept up.

Edit: Just let me keep the blue aura.... please......

They should just exchange the dragoon and gunbreaker roles. Make dragoon the tank and gunbreaker the DPSer. It would make more sense.

Consider when Monk lost GL stacks and they were changed to traits, we lost the GL effect. Unless they change something, I don't think you will see the blue aura again.

Honestly devastating

I just find it funny we are up to 9 AoE abilities. with 5 of them being part of the single target rotation.

Tbh, I like DRG cause of the Blue/Red Aura and the gameplay. It doesn't feel like DRG without the glowing aura around you and giving that initial sfx from entering the DRG mode.

Still, this is a nice QoL change since you can already sustain Blood of the Dragoon indefinitely if you can use your basic rotation. Removing that skill frees up one additional hotbar slot.

So we’ve got the Upgraded Full thrust and Chaos thrust, AoE version of Raiden thrust.
Both version of Raiden thrusts give us eye stacks as well.
I think they probably removed Mirage drive from jump and only available to use once we got 2 eye stacks from using Raiden thrusts.
Now we have the 3rd version of Geirskogul.

I really hope they add the blue aura back in some way, I think the feel of the new ability that we spend the new resource on is hurt with it being gone. Hopefully it was just an oversight with a sudden change made to the build they used for the live letter. It's such a weird thing to lose after having had it for most of the game's lifespan now.

I agree. It seems like the Azure Dragoon image color is shifting to red. I'm not a fan of missing the blue aura at all. And Life doesn't stand out against it if it's not there

Though from what we saw in the video, I believe Mirage Dive was unchanged? It's 4:30 am here now, though, so I could be mistaken.

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Originally Posted by Flynn89

They should just exchange the dragoon and gunbreaker roles. Make dragoon the tank and gunbreaker the DPSer. It would make more sense.

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Funnily enough, this makes a LOT of sense.

Well Dragoon was originally a dragon hunter not a dragon tanker while Gunbreaker are glorified bodyguards aka protectors, so i wouldnt say that it makes sense. Even Seifer and Squall despite having an offensive combat style they focused on protecting someone

Dragoons will sadly be competing with an over-abundance of Reapers for gear and I feel they'll be left behind a bit. Still, we get a minute cd reduction on Battle Litany and a 30 sec reduction on Lance Charge.

But other classes had to compete for gear. I fail to see how drg competing for gear now poses any real problem.

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Originally Posted by Leonus

But other classes had to compete for gear. I fail to see how drg competing for gear now poses any real problem.

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It doesn’t, though it is likely one of the melee jobs will take a hit so Reaper shines brighter, I don’t actually expect it to be DRG. I think DRG will be just fine come Endwalker, it usually is.

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Originally Posted by Kahnom

So we’ve got the Upgraded Full thrust and Chaos thrust, AoE version of Raiden thrust.
Both version of Raiden thrusts give us eye stacks as well.
I think they probably removed Mirage drive from jump and only available to use once we got 2 eye stacks from using Raiden thrusts.
Now we have the 3rd version of Geirskogul.

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You still use mirage dive to build eyes, the Raiden Stacks build up a separate resource, used on Doubleskogul.