Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[rickyguo]

at this point, if all they change is that we still get effect if we miss positionals, we will ONLY lose out on like 20 dps over 8minutes.

I did 50 dps with HT and impulse combined over 8 minutes at the avatar. Assuming lose of potency by missing EVERY positionals and no echo, that is about 20 DPS.

This means that the skilled dragoon that hits EVERY positional would have done 20 more dps than the dragoon that did not hit ANY. Hitting positionals would not be rewarded enough. We're not monks with 6 skills with positionals that we constantly need to hit.

I wouldn't have switched to monk if we didn't get buffed but if it comes out like this and we end up like monks without greased lightning and become a super easy class then yeah, I rather monk.

[jehuty08]

I did 50 dps with HT and impulse combined over 8 minutes at the avatar. Assuming lose of potency by missing EVERY positionals and no echo, that is about 20 DPS.

You're giving bad players too much credit. So in a scenario, you have a dragoon who has perfect rotation, perfect cooldown usage but does not hit his positionals* from the right side, but you have another dragoon who does all the above but does hit his positionals from the right side, then yes, the dps difference will only be like 20 (which still isn't something to balk at), in that scenario, can you really call DRG one unskilled? I mean yeah, he messes up on two attacks but he is still demonstrating a high level of competency with the job.

I guess what Im getting at is: hitting HT from the side and ID from behind does not a good dragoon make

* I am of course talking about positionals after the 2.45 changes.