Quote Originally Posted by Iyrnwaen View Post
Yes, you can definitely choose to play the job wrong and deal substantially less damage for no reason.
DRG has no CC and no ability to chase. If you're not maximizing your burst, you're a minor annoyance without your team doing the heavy lifting.
DRG is inferior to NIN and RDM even when it's played correctly, but by all means, make it worse.
Dragoon is easily the 2nd worst melee behind Reaper for sure. Every other melee gets some stun or some other form of CC. And Dragoon has the priveledge of also being the only melee (possibly even the only job as well cant recall) who's self buff comes attached with a debilitating debuff that increases the enemies damage against it. Why SE felt the need to essentially give DRG blood for blood agaon idk. None of the other melee have this notable drawback. Sure Dragoon hits hard and does alot of damage but at high levels of combat that is almost worthless alone unless you have teammates with good CC that can carry the weight of its shortcomings. CC abilities are everything in high tier PVP and dragoon is a glaring liability in this regard.