Question: What is Dragoon best at ?

[Alise]

DRG have no abilities to reduce damage. They also have almost no support, since Dis is more for them, and the BRD boost is just a nice perk, and stuns can be an issue (T5/Levi).

DRG are the burst job. They do also bring great sustained single-target, and better AoE than BRD, but the thing that sets them apart is the burst. And that burst is definitely useful, and good DRG will take advantage of it (you notice the difference most when you normally have a good DRG, then one day do not and see that things do not die as they should).



As for Lustrate...you have 3/min, max (less if you use Sacred Soil to mitigate, which you should). There are definitely fights where that is not enough, especially at lower ilv for the content or if something goes wrong (bad crit, tank derped, added mobs come to the fight, too little DPS, etc).
If a SCH has all three stacks for Lustrate, they are better single-target heals...but that's burst-healing. Which you just said is something pretty much useless for DPS...so its not useful healing either, right? 2 WHM are more than able to overcome that need for burst healing with their greater sustained healing...

Little miss assume there. when I said reduce dps a little meaning as in comparing to Monk, Drg dps is a reduced from that, but Drg gain support stuffs where Monk can not do.

Another point is that when you assumed burst dps is not useful, then burst healing isn't useful too. Nah, I would say the opposite, in healing case, burst healing to make alive is the most useful thing healer could do. (Aka, burst healing is more useful than healing per sec). In generally case when boss just doing auto-attack and use minor skills that require healer to keep casting sustainable heal per sec, tank hp would always be at full because it is overly heal per sec. However, only some specific times when boss is using something like Raven beak, combo, disfussive laser, dread summon, death sentence stuffs which burst healing is the decisive factor to check party death or alive. That is the time when healer shine the most.


As in, when they see DD. they said, omg, this person has high dps. good job. It kill boss fast. (people care per sec)
when they see Healer. they said, omg, this healer could heal through such a heavy situation. good job. (people care burst)