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

[Vandi]

Absolutely terrified about the drg rewrite, because there’s no need for it. Ever since I learned to write macros, it’s been laughably easy to combine abilities to maximize on out put, and these work very well with drg. No button bloat at all. A rewrite is just gonna dumb the job down.

[HikariKurosawa]

Absolutely terrified about the drg rewrite, because there’s no need for it. Ever since I learned to write macros, it’s been laughably easy to combine abilities to maximize on out put, and these work very well with drg. No button bloat at all. A rewrite is just gonna dumb the job down.

‘He who has no expectations will never be disappointed.’

The job does have button bloat at 90 though. Way too many oGCDs to play optimally without it feeling consistently clunky. I'm not sure if it is a latency issue or because I don't use alexander/noclippy, but it feels really bad.

One thing I forgot to mention is that Piercing Talon has not changed at all. With the increased potencies of DT, as well as PT's anti-synergy with our rotation due to how it delays Power Surge and the Chaotic Spring's DoT reapplication, our only ranged attack looks to be even weaker than it already was in EW.

I agree it should get an upgrade that gives it a new animation and icon with a gae bolg visual theme. Something I find I'd like for melee jobs to have in this game is a strong-ish melee filler button. The use case is like this: I am ending garuda phase in UWU, in my combo I am at the chaotic spring part. It doesn't make sense to press that button when garuda is about to die and I know it was worth going down that path because I want to get a dot on ifrit asap. So I end up using 1 or 2 piercing talons as filler to avoid breaking my combo and can start ifrit with a combo'd dot application. Maybe there is a more optimal way of lining up my ifrit opener or garuda finisher, but it seems sensible the way it lines up in certain attempts just because of the kill speed of the group.

It would be cool to have a non-combo button to press that didn't make me feel like I was sandbagging so hard. I am in melee range, but I don't want to break my combo. It would also be cool if piercing talon was more worthwhile to use and didn't feel like a basic lancer attack.