Question: What is Dragoon best at ?

[whiskeybravo]

Nope. Summoners are, especially when you take foe requiem in consideration. You ll never match 2 - 2.5k crit Fester with your full thrust if you re not pretty insanely high in determination.

Both Drg and SMN here.. DRG burst damage far exceeds SMN when all CDs are avail. After the intital burst of DRG is over with, yes SMN can keep on using Fester - but this is approaching sustained damage, not burst. Fester is only 300 potency after all, our Full Thrust is 330. SMN have to be careful Bane/Fester/Energy draining for burst, otherwise you're out of Aetherflow for a min and stuck with 80 pot Ruins.

[LunarEmerald]

Both Drg and SMN here.. DRG burst damage far exceeds SMN when all CDs are avail. After the intital burst of DRG is over with, yes SMN can keep on using Fester - but this is approaching sustained damage, not burst. Fester is only 300 potency after all, our Full Thrust is 330. SMN have to be careful Bane/Fester/Energy draining for burst, otherwise you're out of Aetherflow for a min and stuck with 80 pot Ruins.

Dragoons can also guarantee a critical. There's no way to force a fester to crit. Summoner burst damage isn't reliable while dragoon's is.

[Sygmaelle]

Both Drg and SMN here.. DRG burst damage far exceeds SMN when all CDs are avail. After the intital burst of DRG is over with, yes SMN can keep on using Fester - but this is approaching sustained damage, not burst. Fester is only 300 potency after all, our Full Thrust is 330. SMN have to be careful Bane/Fester/Energy draining for burst, otherwise you're out of Aetherflow for a min and stuck with 80 pot Ruins.

Make it short and post a screen of 2k3 minimum Full thrust at ilvl 104 big maximum. We re not the best bursters, because overall with all the crit dots + poison pots we re outclassed or you ll see dragoons breaking 600 dps quite often. Still didn't see a single one doin that with reasonnable ilvl

[PArcher]

Make it short and post a screen of 2k3 minimum Full thrust at ilvl 104 big maximum. We re not the best bursters, because overall with all the crit dots + poison pots we re outclassed or you ll see dragoons breaking 600 dps quite often. Still didn't see a single one doin that with reasonnable ilvl

~1600 FT + ~1100 VT + ~1500 Jump...all within less than 2.3 seconds (which is about the same time that Fester occupies without DoTs).

THAT is our burst, and it beats Fester (both assuming crits too...since Fester won't crit all the time. Without...~1600 FT + ~750 VT + ~1000 Jump...we still win). And I have done that, several times.