How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Erys]

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When I get tanks they stop EVERY pull. And I have to sprint and pop botd between pulls to keep it alive it's miserable x'D
I even have to pull myself sometimes and I hate that

[Shamox]

Yeah, I just pull myself in some case.

Checked again, best way to doubleweave MD and Geirs is to use MD first, way smoother.

[Gaiussenpai]

Seems dervy was right when DRG does 200 less than ninja.

[Hacchan]

I can't get my finger on it but, to me, stormblood killed DRG, the changes on it made it sluggish as hell.
DRG still hit hard but juggling with jump/gs/spine for LoTD feel super bad and not as enjoyable and rhythmic as BoTD/GS before.

[Erys]

I can't get my finger on it but, to me, stormblood killed DRG, the changes on it made it sluggish as hell.
DRG still hit hard but juggling with jump/gs/spine for LoTD feel super bad and not as enjoyable and rhythmic as BoTD/GS before.

I personally feel dragoon is more frenetic and active now and I like it. The last trial of the msq I enjoy a lot as dragoon. You get to sprint in combat, elusive jump every minute and funnily enough mirage dive lines up a lot with short lived aoes so you have a ranged attack that doesn't kill you by diving into the bad xD
The only thing that irks me is the stupid amount of skill speed we have. We are in the limbo of too much skill speed for the perfect rota, and too little for the next perfect rota x'D

But if what you guys are saying about ninja being above dragoon in personal dps AGAIN, dragoon is a bit dead. Needing a bard and a machinist to make up for that difference is starting to get a bit boring. I mean ninjas are the light class, and we are designed to fell dragons from the skies. Something is amiss here, physics?

[Dacen_Drg]

I can't get my finger on it but, to me, stormblood killed DRG, the changes on it made it sluggish as hell.
DRG still hit hard but juggling with jump/gs/spine for LoTD feel super bad and not as enjoyable and rhythmic as BoTD/GS before.

My issue, and some of this might be just not having done the fights enough yet, is that there are a lot where there is too much down time to keep blood going because the boss goes invuln right before using WT/FC, which then of course means I drop the eye stacks. Again I probably need to adjust, but its still kind of annoying, feels like we have SMN's 3.0 issue

[Tharne]

The only thing that irks me is the stupid amount of skill speed we have. We are in the limbo of too much skill speed for the perfect rota, and too little for the next perfect rota x'D

Gotta wait for the Raid because again they thought it was a good idea to put SkillSpeed on the huge majority of Tomestone gear...

My issue, and some of this might be just not having done the fights enough yet, is that there are a lot where there is too much down time to keep blood going because the boss goes invuln right before using WT/FC, which then of course means I drop the eye stacks.

The worst offender is probably the last fight of a lvl 70 dungeon where gold is involved. (Don't want to spoil too much )

[Shamox]

Dragon is way better now imo

And don't take ACT too seriously rn as it is in beta and dots are fucked up

[Erys]

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I agree to both things you said. While waiting is necessary I'm afraid we are going to get shafted and stuff with gear.
And the gold phases in that fight... my gosh I would kill whoever thought of it, at least the second time around you can keep botd and start a kind of opener with Nastrond but still.

Also I'm still waiting on square to release at least a glamour for Estinien's Gae Bolg. I want it, I want to be the edgiest dragoon in town.

[Gaiussenpai]

Dragon is way better now imo

And don't take ACT too seriously rn as it is in beta and dots are fucked up

It's actually not that inaccurate and our kit didn't really change from the leaks so dervy's theory on that still stands correct. Every class has a massive pps over drg along with their own more useful party wide buffs except for the ranged classes who are in a similar boat with utility that isn't mandatory or unique. Drg needs a serious look for the up coming balance patch if SE wants to make all classes to not have such huge parity.