Dragoons... how do you feel post 4.0?

[Jonnycbad]

Frankly a little disheartened.

Change to AoE is a step in the right direction but still no way to maintain BotD with aoe tools is a problem.

Nastronds are cool but LotD feels a little unrewarding, and encounters seem to consistently have immune periods right as LotD becomes available.

I feel like DRG is being pushed as a kind of support melee in 4.0 but our raid utility skills still seem clumsy, piercing debuff got an undeserved nerf, and Dragon sight is extremely obnoxious. If it was adjusted as a self buff that always affects the DRG and whoever was closest got tethered for the 5% I'd be much happier with it.

There's a macro for that! It works pretty well but be careful in dungeons because sometimes it targets tank or caster/healer if you're not wary.

/micon "Dragon Sight"
/merror off
/tpc
/ac "Dragon Sight"
/ac "Dragon Sight"
/ac "Dragon Sight"
/ac "Dragon Sight"
/ac "Dragon Sight"
/ac "Dragon Sight"
/ac "Dragon Sight"
/tle

What this macro does is, it forces you to target your closest PT member (/tpc) and attempts to use DS multiple times (for weaving purposes), then the /tle line shifts your targetting back to the last enemy you hit. So you should be on top of the PT member you want to use it on.

Problem is this doesn't work for
-Prepulls
-Chocobos

[Jonnycbad]

- Disembowel nerf was undeserved. Add that to the fact BRD and MCH aren't top dogs anymore and your synergy (which used to be the best in the game) becomes irrelevant in front of SAM's godly damage. I'm sure they'll balance the jobs later, but still...

This was necessary to lower MCH and BRD utter reliance on needing DRG in party, as no other job combo relies on it. SAM and NIN have their own slashing debuff, as does WAR. MCH and BRD are both piercing but cannot debuff the mob with piercing down. So the 10% really hurt them. To compensate for us, however, SE buffed all our WS significantly to account for the difference of 5% damage to our AA and WS (FT got a huge bonus).

[Erys]

There's a macro for that!

This macro is very awkward. Just use this one:
/action "Dragon Sight" <Number>
Number is your party member's number. That way you only have to drag them in the party list and you will be settled. You also don't get a dashing rdm as your mate just so they jump away losing your buff.
It makes you be always in control of your dragon sight. If your partner isn't there, they aren't handling mechanics the right way. Also you don't prepull dragon sight, ever.