Chaos Thrust is Worthless!

[Sygmaelle]

I do appreciate the feedback everyone is giving me on this but now after going through a couple of runs through the high level dungeons and having figured out how to use it effectively, I am now finding myself getting mad when I am in the middle of attempting the combo, the enemy gets turned around (usually when the tank runs away from an aoe) and I'm like "damn it, hold still!" I don't know if it is the anger from getting insulted has flipped a switch on me and it has turning me into what I didn't want to be when I play a video game, because it is just a game. I really hope that it isn't.

So why are you playin a melee then ?

Thats how you want to do a fight as a melee : look where your tank is goin and dont use your next attack straight off the bat when its available / when you think you can do it. Just look at your tank and follow him so you re in the good positionning no matter what can happen. Take some practice but you ll get there

[AmyNeudaiz]

Well I at least have to give him kudos for admitting he was wrong.

[Rusubandenwa]

All it takes is one other person to know what a DRG can dish out to notice it and bring it up. It's usually either the tank or the DPS, simply because both are looking at the enemy's debuffs along with their health. Likewise a healer can easily call out anybody not buffing themselves because it's rather obvious when you're watching the health bars. --snip--

Agree. I did my first Garuda EX run with two randoms, one being another Dragoon. After the 3rd or 4th wipe, I noticed that he never used any of that combo series at all. Didn't pay close enough attention to if he ever even used heavy thrust as I was trying to actually survive after 45 minutes of trying to beat this, but it was blatant that none of this DOTs nor debuffs were ever applied consistently (if at all).

[Suirieko]

Something something chaos thrust sucks.

Found the problem: It's between your chair and keyboard.

(or between your couch and controller)

(Or to be more precise, between whatever you sit on and whatever you use to play the game)

[Danbo05]

Derpgoon detected.

[Odd]

Derpgoon detected.

He already admitted he was wrong, and thanked all those who pointed out the flaws in his understanding of the skill. Is the name calling really necessary now?

[Orophin]

You brought up this is mostly occurring in Brayflox Hard. In most cases people are probably speed running this, so really you should be using your AOE attack if there's more than a couple pulls worth of mobs together. The tank is moving around to avoid damage from 10 angry things trying to smack them. Under normal circumstances, if a tank only has a couple mobs on them they're going to remain relatively stationary and you should be able to get off your combos easier. You just have to keep in mind that fights are dynamic and tanks might have to move to avoid damage, so you'll have to react to this.

[Itseotle]

He already admitted he was wrong, and thanked all those who pointed out the flaws in his understanding of the skill. Is the name calling really necessary now?

Usually happens to all DRG threads. First few posts are constructive, then the "lol DRG!" posts start to crop up.

[Odd]

Usually happens to all DRG threads. First few posts are constructive, then the "lol DRG!" posts start to crop up.

So sad, yet so true. DRG was my most recent 50, so I've been soaking up any and all info I can find on the job. Sadly as you mentioned, almost every thread I came across devolved into this loldrg garbage.

[givemeraptors]

Okay, maybe I'm a total idiot but is there anywhere in the game that says Impulse Drive has to hit from behind for the combo to work? That's not how it works for any other combo (even MNK positionals) and it took me reading the forums to figure out that was how this particular combo works (luckily I found out BEFORE I got Disembowel). I've read the tooltip over and over and nothing about it seems to say the positional is mandatory, even thought it very obviously is in practice.