Let's talk about the upcoming DRG rework...

[Sylvain]

Whatever it is, I hope it's a new skill or an upgrade of an already circle aoe, would hate to lose a line aoe since they are an endangered species in the game and the most fun aoe types.

Probably just an upgrade.

Those showcase usually only reveal a basic new spell animation or a weaker new spell, like the things we got at lv 86 or something.

Knowing the job has been reworked, something we can see in melee's rework is that they simplify positional, allowing melee to have a better control on when they need to do their positionals.
It kind of started with SAM, whenever you'd need to do a Midare, the order of which you'd build your 3 symbole doesn't matter much, allowing you to decide when you do the rear,flank and "no" positional, giving more flexibility to properly land them based on the fight you're doing. RPR follows the same logic, positional litterally being CD-gcd. Nin and Mnk rework reduced the amount or impact of positional.

DRG currently has an extremely strict rotation allowing for no flexibility.
I'm convinced that the rework will involve Fang & Claw and the Life-of-the-Dragon's phase.
This being a finisher of said phase would seem apprioriate.
If Fang&Claw are relayed to Life-of-the-Dragon only, then DRG, assuming it doesn't have to be done on CD, would get more flexibility on where and whne it uses a "positional heavy" burst phase.

Thematically it would also be neat as in.
Dragoon phase : loads of jumps and you build up your dragon stance
Dragon phase : Fang & Claw and dragon themed abilities. (with a big Niddhog strick at the end)