Dragoon is coming, but will our gallant companion be joining us?

[Zanfire]

That is what I always thought, isn't Dragoon supposed to be a Dragon-killer or a Dragon Knight? (Like in Legend of the Dragoon)

I understand that a pet wyvern had never been done before and was actually pretty useful in FFXI, but for the sake of keeping Beastmaster and Summoner unique in this game, I do not think it should be implemented. Who knows what will happen after Dragoons get pets. Puppetmaster all over again? X_X

they were basically there to be "in control" of dragons in multiple ways. from killing them with ease, to harnessing their skills, to scaring them away, taking control of them and even basing their look from them. Its not just "we kill dragons, the end".

im fine with out a pet as long as we get stuff like jump (NEEDS to be there) lancet and breath attacks...those 3 for me would be perfect. it could give them the advantage of variety, elemental breaths and possibly a healing breath making them more then just another guy who swings something pointy like WAR.

[JackDaniels]

ok dragoons breathing fire makes no sence for one.

there are a lot less dragons/monsters in FFonline as apposed to FFnotonline lol.

why do you have such a hate on for wyverns? :'(

[Linkurrra]

I would be in the boat for being disappointed in not seeing Dragoon getting the pet Dragon in some form or fashion! I loved the job quest in XI because of this. Granted the little dragon really didn't add much in the way of abilities though. Although there was dragon specific pet commands like Summoner had for it's avatars and summons.

I would be fine with Dragoon not getting Dragon till about 25-30. Then Dragoon would have to go on a quest of "Enlightenment". To train or earn the trust of a dragon! I'm not asking for dragon raising though lol.

Just a nice little side quest to gain the ability of having a dragon pet abilities! Like flame, bite, tail whip... etc.

But lets mix things up a bit more and a Dragoon can specialize in different type of dragons! Elemental ones if you will. Blue are water, light blue Ice, Green Aero, puple Lightning (my favorite!) etc....

Then it would be a matter of collecting them all! And instead of the dragon always being by your side "Everywhere" you go! Just call upon it in battle! Maybe it would exist as long as you had TP, then fly away once TP was depleted. Then once you build up more you could call on the dragon again, but maybe use a different elemental one.

Just throwing ideas out here. But really I would like to see dragons in this game. Yoshi talked about a Dragon race and I almost fell out of my chair watching the Producer Live video lol.

[Dokuton-Razortaru]

All right everyone great discussion so far, it really seems like a lot of people are passionate about their own version of Dragoon. What I've learned from this is not to be scared because there is more than one way to make Dragoon very cool.

Wyvern pet = awesome, Dragon magic/breaths casted from the Dragoon himself = just as cool.

Alright so looks like we could have a very interesting class on our hands, but we should get an answer to this during the NEXT producers letter. I'm going to need help though from supports of this thread. Everyone who can and is willing please twitter the question related to this thread for the 2nd producers live letter please do so, so that we can hopefully get an answer from Yoshi regarding Dragoons. Thanks again for everyone for bring their passion and opinions to the thread and for keeping it clean'''''.

Btw if you plan on helping to get this question answered in the live producers letter via twitter please just mention Doku i will help out ~ or something along the lines... the more people who twitter this and help our chances will increase on getting picked as a question. 20 tweets from people asking about Dragoons will surely (i hope) not go unanswered. Again thank you everyone.

[Akumu]

I would love if I could get my wyvern back but I can surely live without it. I just hope Dragoon is more advanced as shown when FF games kept being made and the job re-introduced. As long as i'm not just a lancer that can jump i'm good without.

The Kain style of look is a much better improvement compared to XI so I hope that never changes.

[Mireille]

Classic or not I want the Wyvern.

[Leonesaurus]

Well, to be honest. FF XI was my first Final Fantasy and all, and when I found out a job had a pet dragon (wyvern) that fought along side you, I thought that was awesome. When I found out about Beastmaster and Summoner and Puppetmaster, I got excited again and again.

I think people like us just enjoy playing as something that allows a pet, or some sort of cool creature to fight along side of you. Beforehand, I had no love or knowledge of a Dragoon/Lancer, but after playing as one in XI only for the wyvern at first, I learned and appreciated to love a class that uses a polearm from then on.

But it wasn't until FF XIV when this came to be, since I was disappointed by the lack of a wyvern, or Jump for that matter, being attached to that class this time around. But after getting it to 50 first I loved it and did it to honor the job I played in XI.

What I'm trying to get at from all the gibberish I just typed is that, after hearing about our chocobos, and other pets we can tame/charm in the future, being able to fight alongside us in the future, having the wyvern didn't really matter anymore. Because Dragoons and other various classes might be able to have many things to choose from, which is awesome in its own right. So, I'm pleased with how Lancer/Dragoon are now and how they will be presented in the near future.

[MartaDemireux]

Well, the Ishgard storyline doesn't really allow for a pet wyvern haha. I'd be cool with the DRG job (not class, remember the difference in terminology!) getting breath attacks that it harnessed by beating a certain dragon in a quest, like kill flame dragon for DRG job-specific quest and learn flame breath. I'd also be cool with it not getting them at all and just be a jumping class that may have an affinity at killing dragon-type monsters more easily.

But who know's, they can do whatever they feel like. Kain learned white magic in "the After Years" afterall. FF5 had them jump and drain/aspir. FF9 had it be very support oriented with AoE Regen and MP healing while also getting a gambling move to either really help your HP/MP or reduce it to 1 lol. In Tactics they got Reraise. In tactic's advance/A2 they got the breath abilities. FF11 they got a pet wyvern.

tl;dr anythings possible. The 2 things they all seemed to have was Jump (sometimes multiple types) and Lancet (HP/MP steal).

[Esk]

Please look at the lore written for the game world before posting.

I never got to play DRG in XI though it looked great with the pet, no freaking way could it work in XIV so please use some conmen scenes before posting, its not hard. well for most people anyway

[feint2021]

It would be interesting. Although I'm more interested in finding out their jump abilities :O