Improve Dragoon DPS. WEAK in comparison to other DPS

[ChronoOcelot]

I feel DRGs are handicapped! Dragoons should have more STR or DMG for SINGLE TARGETS. In a party of 4 (Whm,Tank,2DPS) if both DPS are DRGs, the dungeon will take much longer!
VS
A party where the DPS are 2BLM, 2ARC, or 2MNK! In Dungeons, I find myself relying on the BRD or BLM to tackle adds WITH me because they have the advantage of DISTANCED attacks AND HIT ALOT HARDER in a shorter time where it takes me a full rotation to equal their output!
AND, I can only buff my attacks with B4B & LS once every 3 or 4 Full Rotations!
So my Solution is to have the Dev Team look into:
1- Shortening the GCD for DRGs,
2- Increasing the Base STR and ACC or even the CRIT stats,
3- Increasing the Damage Output for Each ability, (True Thrust, Vorpal Thrust, Full Thrust, Impulse Drive, Disembowel, Chaos Thrust, etc.)
4- Decreasing the GCD for Blood for Blood and Life Surge
or
5- Making the Debuffs for Disembowel and Chaos Thrust, interact with the DRG attacks in a more potent way.

[Deelo]

[EasymodeX]

I totally agree. Disembowel should be a 20% pierce resist debuff and Heavy Thrust should give a buff like Greased Lightning with 15% haste as well as its current 15% damage.

That would balance Dragoons.

[Kiserai]

Err, since when does DRG not do enough single-target DPS?

I feel like either this isn't fully explained or that the problem isn't the job.

[KujinRen]

It sounds to me like you've only been grouping with bad Dragoons.

I've also done dungeons with 2 Monks from the Duty Finder and the bosses took forever to die. Should I judge the Monk class as a whole because of them?

My only suggestion to you is to play a Lv50 Dragoon yourself and find out. Either way, you'll eventually come across a competent Dragoon one day.

*Edit* I see that you do have a Lv50 Dragoon with mostly Darklight armor and an Ifrit weapon: http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...acter/1731366/

Get your relic zenith and work on your rotation and you'll see better results.

[mythicrose]

I'll take of hit of whatever you're smoking, OP.

[Orophin]

DRG's only disadvantage over MNK is if a positional ability fails the whole combo is screwed. Other than that if you're executing well their damage is just fine.

[Lemon8or]

Darklight ring of Aiming? Really? Even a peltast ring is better. And you're just undergeared compared to other DPS you've run with. You don't even have Mercy Stroke and Internal Release. Do you even know what skills DRG can have access to?
http://xivdb.com/?skilltree/Dragoon
You're welcome.

[kaox_reaper]

I'm sorry but I'm ilvl 90 Monk and my best friend is an ilvl 90 Dragoon and I can tell you for a fact that this thread is the dumbest thing ever since someone made the "Monks are weakest dps" thread. We make dps races all the time and we've both lost and won (it's a lot of fun). So in full honesty, instead of crying to SE to give you a buff (which they already did) look for videos and guides on how to maximize your class/job.

[Kicoe]

I like tiny kittens.