Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[Arland]

So, anybody else laughed at yoshidas answer on the question about dragoon jumps, fuck logic, right?

Q1: Please tell us about dragoon adjustments. Also, you mentioned that you wouldn’t be making dragoons invincible while jumping, but can you explain why this this can’t be done, when black mage has something similar, and other constant damage actions.

A1: First, regarding invincible while jumping, jumps are attack actions. Black mage and other such actions have their own effect and after a set period of time the effect wears off, and they consume an action slot. Making you invincible while jumping would enable you to become invincible while attacking so we do not have any plans to do this.

I mean, what kind of logic is this? They can't let us have invulnerability frames (even short ones) on jumps because we would be invulnerable WHILE attacking?! So... Let us look at the BLM at Twintania Divebomb phase, he just stands there, eating 3 Divebombs for 0 damage and without knockback and what does he do while standing there? Right! He attacks the snakes!

Yeah, sure he is not invulnerable because of his attacks, but because of mana wall. This in fact is even more powerfull than any invulnerability frame jump could offer us! Even if we would be so lucky as to recieve our invulnerability frame while jumping, this would be very hard to time right and probably more dangerous than to just move out of the way.

I'm glad they change jumps, but i don't quite understand yoshidas point there. Of course, we would have invulnerability frames every 40secs at least (more in fact) but those frames would only help us to fuck up less in a movement heavy fight but they never would be reliable enough to actually use them as a means to dodge every spell/skill to an amount of 100%. (Server delay would screw us over.)

[pandabearcat]

So, anybody else laughed at yoshidas answer on the question about dragoon jumps, fuck logic, right?

I agree with Yoshida's logic. Invincibilities and things that let you ignore mechanics are hard to balance if not every class has them.

For example, if every jump gave you invincibility you could reliably have a jump up for every AoE.

You could potentially jump to avoid lots of otherwise unavoidable raid damage as well.

That is problematic for other classes.

Now as for BLM: they are broken. They are really, really outclassing every other class, and it isn't because of their AoE (which is, ridiculous). Its because of their mechanics.

Don't compare yourself to BLM. I'm always for buffing classes instead of nerfing, but BLM has amazing tools and it is amazing that the developers have not addressed this.