Dragoons need to be buffed...

[Mardel]

You are basically asking the DRG to be better than the MNK un every aspect. Except for cloning both classes. Why would a raid take a MNK while a DRG would have the same overall DPS by himself while:
- a better burst allows easier management of some mechanics such as killing adds or pushing annoying phase quickier?
- pushing the numbers of another party member?
- having better aoes?

Btw your own number shows that the DRG is pretty near to the MNK if you add the extra DPS you allow for one single BRD. And you still have better burst. Please look to the raid numbers and not your individual one.

Well tbh I'm not sure of drg has what I could consider "better burst". More like we blow our wad earlier than monk. A monk still have perfect balance up their sleeve if any one would get "burst king" title wouldn't that go to bard with a barrage up their sleeve? Everytime I see a fight I always see BRD for the first little bit way up there in damage, usually top. Also in terms of just burning something down brd > smn ~ drg ? Seems about right if we are just blowing all GCD to kill something quickly.

The final reason why drg should get buff is if musketeer is BLUNT damage and is a dps class. If this is the case there will be like almost 0 reason to bring a drg lol, unless you plan to do something like.... Drg, mnk, brd, musketeer. In which case would be like... why? When you can bring a smn who will do more damage anyways! Also, consider the dagger class as a slashing class too. A good warrior will keep the slashing debuff up as well, meaning another reason not to bring a drg along if you have 2 tanks.

Granted outside t6/7 my group runs 1 tank meaning we only bring a pld to tank our stuff. However, the norm is pld/war thus if monk > drg and musketeer <3 monk this means we will see something like... these comps.

pld,war,mnk,gun,dagger, brd/cast, healers for 2 tanks

pld, mnk, gun, dagger, brd, smn, healers for 1 tank

Hell my drg is i108 and if musketeer was blunt and dagger slashing... I wouldn't bring myself along to make the best comp XD (either way I'm probably making drg the third class I play once dagger class is live)