Dragoon rework idea

[Reldhir]

Skewer&Recover. Skewer throws the lance as a GCD, very heavy damage, disarming yourself. Actual debuff and all, cannot use weapon skills etc. This debuff lasts until you either walk close enough to the target you skewered or use Recover, at which point you jump to the target and in an ~2.5s cast rip out the lance, dealing heavy damage again and causing a bleed.

At first I was thinking that this sounded very clunky but then I thought... hmm as a disengage/downtime skill it would be kinda fantastic xD. Like here hold this. Then the boss goes untargetable and all that jazz then when they reappear you yoink it out of them and continue stabbing xD. Atleast if such a skill existed thats how id imagine using it :P

That being said, on a personal level ive never been a fan of the idea of drg throwing their lance. Like piercing talon or wyrmwind. I dunno, the idea of throwing away our main weapon seems kinda cheesy? Its just a me thing though xD

Also also, when you say disarmed and no weapon skills what about abilities too? Because dfd stardiver, geirskogul etc are abilities and they would make zero sense without a spear. Or would it be spear related abilities as well? All abilities?

[Carighan]

At first I was thinking that this sounded very clunky but then I thought... hmm as a disengage/downtime skill it would be kinda fantastic xD. Like here hold this. Then the boss goes untargetable and all that jazz then when they reappear you yoink it out of them and continue stabbing xD. Atleast if such a skill existed thats how id imagine using it :P

Yeah that's what I thought of. When you expect to lose more than 1 GCD of uptime anyways, say from a boss doing its own thing for a bit.

Also also, when you say disarmed and no weapon skills what about abilities too? Because dfd stardiver, geirskogul etc are abilities and they would make zero sense without a spear. Or would it be spear related abilities as well? All abilities?

Yeah not sure. I know Disarmed (the debuff) only preclused weapon skills, but at the same time it feels weird to not re-use existing effects, but then again you're right, many oGCDs make no sense without the lance in hand. Hrm...