It doesn't matter how good of a DRG you are.

[LunaHoshino]

I play DRG in my raid team. I have run most of FFXIV's content with my raid members, as well as people in my FC, and countless PUGs. Very few people are able to out perform my DRG. I can tell you that I have severely out performed every job out there in a variety of settings. I get the DRG stigma very rarely (aside from FC banter), and when I do, it's always a pleasure to see their responses when I tell them our DPS numbers, watch them die to mechanics first, etc. Most of the time, the response is a variant of "Wow, I didn't know DRG could do so well!" They prove my earlier point far better than any parse ever could: People just blindly repeat whatever they hear.

This has been my experience too. I'm in an LS dedicated to helping people get clears on endgame content (most often T5, T9 and the EX Primals) and I often get specifically invited to groups and farms because the other LS members know that I can be counted on to play well. Heck, my FC has a running joke about me being the worst DRG ever since I'm often the last one left standing when we wipe to things.

People generally appreciate DRGs who know how to do their job and pull their weight in a party. As long as you can do that, you'll be fine.

Also, I've found that the general opinion of DRGs in a party goes WAY up when you just emergency OTed and saved the party from a wipe.

[seekified]

This has been my experience too. I'm in an LS dedicated to helping people get clears on endgame content (most often T5, T9 and the EX Primals) and I often get specifically invited to groups and farms because the other LS members know that I can be counted on to play well. Heck, my FC has a running joke about me being the worst DRG ever since I'm often the last one left standing when we wipe to things.

People generally appreciate DRGs who know how to do their job and pull their weight in a party. As long as you can do that, you'll be fine.

Also, I've found that the general opinion of DRGs in a party goes WAY up when you just emergency OTed and saved the party from a wipe.

This is pretty much my situation as well. I've mained DRG since closed beta and the stigma of us dying all the time has been there pretty much the whole time, but in my static and in my FC I'm a valued addition to a party because they know I do my job pretty damn well. DRG is arguably more difficult to play "properly" because of the long rotation and animation locks, but I've never felt that the dragoons who do it right have a hard time proving their worth in parties.

[Mistoltin]

People generally appreciate anyone who knows how to do their job and pull their weight in a party. As long as you can do that, you'll be fine.

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