Dragoon 6.2 Civil discussion thread

[astrabun]

To be clear this is a thread that's going to be for talking about dragoon but if you would allow it, I would like to say a few things to the "doomsayers" of the dragoon class.

Look I understand that hearing "major rework" to dragoon a class that quite frankly IMO doesn't really need a full rework or any major changes is scary.

I know that with the kaiten stuff people are scared I get it I really do, But for the love of god and all things holy please just lets wait for the changes to be presented to us first before we complain so they actually idk take us seriously?

Who is gonna take someone seriously who just dogs on you before you even say what you're gonna do? No one. Lets come at this with a level head and think.

they said that they would be giving us detailed reasonings for changes so at the very least they will be starting a dialog. So that's something to look forward to, They very clearly play this job every change they have made to dragoon has been great all of them have been QoL. Hell even the start of the expac was great yeah we were lower damage than most other melee but all of the stuff we got felt like natural additions to the rotation. So realistically most likely don't have much to worry about.

As for some people talking about "look what they did to summoner" yeah they made that one really easy but that's not the only complete rework they did in endwalker. They did the monk rework and that rework was amazing.

All that being said and (some of the things that clearly got under my skin out there lol) Lets talk about what this thread is for.

I want this to be for a civil and productive conversation about dragoon for those who love the job like me, To achieve that we should express the things we love and want to stay on the job because praise for aspects that we really like is just as important as things we don't and explain why we love them, What things we really dislike and would actually like to see reworked, and of course what we want the class to be difficulty wise and class fantasy wise.

Please keep all of the responses respectful and constructive and keep a level head.

Thank you very much for taking the time to read all this and thank you very much for any responses you add. Love the game love you all lets actually have a nice discussion about our favorite bouncy spike ball class.

[butchersblock]

I wish they took the player feedback seriously if anything.

Oh, and the Monk rework being "amazing" is debatable

[Reese_Clairdale]

they said that they would be giving us detailed reasonings for changes

Not a DRG main but I have maxed jobs, I cannot envision what the job needs or what DRG mains would even want. All I can say is, if Live Letter part 2 comes around, and the changes once again boil down to trying to capture an audience that doesn't even play the game, then you'll see a similar volume of backlash compared to the SAM changes, perhaps even higher.

For all we know after part 1, and combined with past experience, "detailed reasonings" could just mean providing apologists with more ammo. I would love to be proven wrong though.

Ultimately, the changes they implement and the consequences of those changes are what I am worried about, I don't care about their reasons.

[astrabun]

What I want for dragoon is for Life surge to be kept as it adds a bit extra to think about when going about the rather simple rotation, I would like star diver to remain as is with the animation lock as I like having to plan my movement around that skill since I can't double weave and I have to be pretty safe when doing it and also making sure it's not naked. I would like to see better SFX and VFX for wyrmwind as it doesn't feel punchy enough. I would like battle litany to be changed to not be a crit buff I just feel it's not really that good in that state. Then I would like a personal mit or raidwide mit for dragoon Other than that I'm happy with how it is.

As for the reasonings I think the reasonings are really important depending on what they give. Knowing what they personally want for a job is important information to know. Because then we have a better grasp of what the job should be offering, Do they want the job to be harder to play? Do they want it to be an easier job? how do they classify difficulty? there is a lot of questions without answers that I'm hoping to get even if they change dragoon in a way I don't like If I know what their philosophy and general idea for what dragoon should be is. I can right then and there decide if their vision of it is for me. I hope they give us that kind of information going forward because a lot of the changes are confusing and make no sense cause we really just don't even know what they want each job to offer and what they want them to be. With 19 jobs and soon to be more in ff I'm sure they want to cover as many different playstyles/ difficulties as possible so everyone has something they can enjoy gameplay wise.

[Amh_Wilzuun]

I wish they took the player feedback seriously if anything.

Oh, and the Monk rework being "amazing" is debatable

This is my metric for whether or not the Rework was a success. It’s currently one of the lowest ability count DPS jobs yet I see everywhere people calling it one of the hardest jobs to play. That’s a big dub in my book. We should pat the devs on the back when they add a job with skill expression like EW monk and admonish dumbing things down like 6.1 SAM

[RyuuZero]

I'd say the reason why they do those sweaping job changes is because they had huge success with Ninja in 5.2, if I right remember

[Azuri]

It's pretty simple. Just don't have a history of making atrocious job adjustments that turn every job into mindless single button mashing and suck out all skill expression and no one will "dog on you before you even say what you're gonna do".

Oh, you wanted a constructive idea how SE can keep the job we love. Just. Don't. Touch. It.

[KuroMaboroshi]

[...]Who is gonna take someone seriously who just dogs on you before you even say what you're gonna do? No one. Lets come at this with a level head and think.[...]

The problem is one of simple math: If a job is already a bad spot, then a change can at worst fail to improve it. If a job is in a good spot, like DRG currently is, then you are taking a gamble on potentially making something worse. Even if SE had a history of nothing but amazing job changes, this alone would be cause for concern amongst DRGs in the current situation. Calling that doomsaying is quite the stretch, especially since most of us don't say "the changes are going to be bad" but rather "why even take the risk that they could be bad when the job is just fine without any changes".

If the changes end up amazing, I'll be first in line to praise them, but if the changes turn out bad, then they ruined something perfectly good simply for the sake of change, not because there was any need to change anything.

[...]I want this to be for a civil and productive conversation about dragoon for those who love the job like me, To achieve that we should express the things we love and want to stay on the job because praise for aspects that we really like is just as important as things we don't and explain why we love them, What things we really dislike and would actually like to see reworked, and of course what we want the class to be difficulty wise and class fantasy wise.

Now this I can get behind. Let's start with the good:

• I love that we have an incredibly set combo that almost never changes, which gives me time to worry about my oGCDs and doing raid callouts.
• I love that our dot automatically refreshes in our normal rotation so I don't have to keep track of how much is left on it unless it's a situation where I want to optimise damage around a boss dying or becoming untargeteable. I dislike jobs that become too micro-manage-y by having to always keep an eye on dots.
• I love the way we can delay our life of the dragon window to optimise around when buffs will be up and when bosses will be targetable.
• I love that we have a small amount of positionals that are just enough to optimise around without becoming overbearing.
• I also think DRG is in a great spot when it comes to the amount of oGCDs we have to worry about.

In short, I think DRG is in a great spot right now and I don't want them to change a thing about the base feel and gameplay of it. Please don't change it, SE.

Of course, there is plenty stuff to improve, too:

• I don't like that our gapcloser does damage. I'd much prefer if we went back to 1 charge on Spineshatter Dive and instead had 2-3 charges on our Elusive Jump, so I don't have to sacrifice a DPS tool to optimise movement.
• Then there is Stardiver and its insane animation lock. Especially on high ping its almost impossible to not clip it. All other jumps had their animation lock reduced and I'd love to see Stardiver follow suit.
• Speaking of jumps, while it is not a DRG-specific issue, DRG is one of the classes that would most heavily profit from finally fixing the netcode. Jumps are more prone to clipping issues at high ping than many other skills due to their animation. I have seen videos of people double weaving jumps, which while not neccessary for DRG-rotation would be nice option to have. But it is something I can only dream of as a European playing on an NA Datacentre.
• Another big issue is Eye of the Dragon: Please don't make "our" half of it it also disappear if our tethered partner dies. Being punished for someone else messing up is just annoying.
• Finally (though the live letter implied this is already on the agenda to be fixed), I'd love to see an adjustment to either how stats work or how Litany works, so that my party buff isn't wasted on people with auto-crit classes.
• (Bonus Round) Purely for optics, I'd also love 2 extra seconds on our DoT, so that it doesn't visually fall off at the end of the combo for half a second. I don't need any extra damage tick on it, just keep it visually there.

So that's my "wishlist" so to speak. I don't want them to change anything else, really. But none of this sounds like it would warrant the word "extensive", so I worry nontheless.

[CasterSvarog]

I don't like that our gapcloser does damage. I'd much prefer if we went back to 1 charge on Spineshatter Dive and instead had 2-3 charges on our Elusive Jump, so I don't have to sacrifice a DPS tool to optimise movement.

Plus with a change like this, they could move that potency into Dragonfire dive, for having such a long cooldown, it’s only got a potency of 300. From there you could upgrade it into a visual closer to the pvp lb

[Kolsykol]

This is my metric for whether or not the Rework was a success. It’s currently one of the lowest ability count DPS jobs yet I see everywhere people calling it one of the hardest jobs to play. That’s a big dub in my book. We should pat the devs on the back when they add a job with skill expression like EW monk and admonish dumbing things down like 6.1 SAM

Skill count doesn't tell the whole story, MNK is very well-designed atm.
I'd like something extra during downtime outside of burst phases but Optimal Drift and the way it interacts with the Beast Chakra is really well-designed and MNK is incredibly flexible.
Probably my biggest issue with MNK outside of the obvious like Anatman is that I rly don't like Chakras being tied to RNG.

I wish they took the player feedback seriously if anything.

Oh, and the Monk rework being "amazing" is debatable

How would you know this when you don't play MNK ( you haven't even started Pugilist )?

I mean, every rework will be '' debatable '' whether it's good or not.
Not everyone is going to like every rework.
But I think that from a mechanical viewpoint MNK is well-designed and functional.
When you understand how it plays then it flows together very nicely.

Plus with a change like this, they could move that potency into Dragonfire dive, for having such a long cooldown, it’s only got a potency of 300. From there you could upgrade it into a visual closer to the pvp lb

Making Jumps more powerful is definitely one of the things I wish for the most, I think Jumps feel too weak when they're meant to be the unique niche of DRG.
With MNK they made the concept of a '' combo master '' a bit more of a reality, with DRG I hope they push the Jumps as the big thing where the big damage really comes from.