What will be the new "loldrg"?

[Rin_Kuroi]

Apparently it's "lolDPS".

Srsly. I was grinding titan hard mode for the light bonus. One run every single dps was knocked into the pit. The tanks and healers went on to finish the boss without any dps. We didnt have first time bonus either.

[Drako]

It's been lolnin for a long time now. Or haven't you noticed then on the floor a lot more frequently then drgs? Catch up to the times ya'll...

[MageBlack]

The Me-CANT-ist

[LineageRazor]

In both FFXI and XIV, dragoons have had a notable excess of bad players thanks to a combination of the dragon relation, the signature aesthetic being dark(so edgy), and people wanting to be Kain. Dragoons that can't dodge AoE, dragoons that can't do mechanics, dragoons that can't pull off their rotation...

While these are true, probably the biggest reason DRGs in FFXI got this rep was due to the Penta Thrust nerf early on.

For the benefit of those who weren't there, in FFXI, TP worked differently. You started with zero TP, and each attack you landed gave you additional TP. Once you reached 100, you could execute a high-damage weaponskill. Until you reached that number, all you had was auto-attacks (and, depending on jobs, a sprinkiling of job abilities) to build TP. Weaponskills would consume all of your TP, but also give you some TP back for each hit that landed.

Penta Thrust was a bit overpowered in that it was a five-hit attack, using a weapon that already restored a larger-than-average amount of TP with each successful hit (polearms had a long delay between auto-attacks, and to keep things balanced against weapons like daggers that had low auto-attack delay, longer auto-attack delay means more TP per hit). Players discovered early on that Penta Thrust spam was pretty much the best DPS in the game. Players both good and bad flocked to the job like locusts, something that pretty much always happens when a job/class/build obtains flavor-of-the-month in ANY MMO.

This was a pretty obvious and severe imbalance, though, and so SE made adjustments to the TP gain properties of weaponskills: for multi-hit weaponskills, every hit beyond the first would generate a reduced amount of TP. After that, DRG's huge advantage wasn't so huge anymore. They were still fine as DPS - but suddenly all the bads who'd come to the job could no longer use Penta-spam to hide their inadequacy. DRGs got a reputation for attracting bad players that never really went away after that, even if it eventually faded into "tired old joke" status.

Because of this, Loldrg carried on into FFXIV, even BEFORE their penchant for jump-related aoe deaths became apparent.

[Eisen-Zorn]

I've seen a few "loldrg" and "Derpknights" lately. That last one makes me sad because I main DRK and while I've been working on my healer classes, I have come across a few that just cannot play it well.

However, I've been running in to a lot of "lolwar". I had to run Halitali and Tam-Tara Deepcroft with two low level WAR who just could not get it together. The WAR in Halitali didn't even have any right side items and was wearing level 10-14 gear. The sad part? He had the Pure White title. Which means he had a level 60 White Mage. He should have known better.

Also, those were the normal versions of those dungeons.

[TouchandFeel]

At this point I believe it has transcended role, class or job and should just be "loldf".

[Momita]

lolblm

/10char

[Mercutial]

lolblm

/10char

I can see healers thinking this. So many AOE's eaten to keep enochian up. I cringe every time I have to take unavoidable damage because I know heals is wishing a thousand deaths upon me.

[Galactimus]

Im playing mostly Drg and I dont understant "Loldrg" o_O
what thoes it mean?

I think the "16 bit Titan Extreme" fight sums it up nicely. Even the developers were laughing at lolDrg.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKAMMjFch0A

[Hydrium]

Loldrg (This is a classic and will last forever)
Derpknight (I CUT MYSELF TO FEEL, SO EDGY MUST PLAY....WHAT ITS NOT DPS? DONT CARE PLAYING IT AS DPS ANYWAYS YAY NO QUEUE)
Lolmch (I remember DF those first few days, you do too.)
Lolblm (MOVE, I SWEAR TO GOD IF YOU EAT ANOTHER AOE I'M GOING TO SHIT A CHICKEN)

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