Thread: Punished by the game for being a Dragoon. (Magic defense and 2.4)

Originally Posted by Nalien

I honestly never understood why Dragoon has lower magic defense... I mean... It's a Job that is supposed to specialize in fighting magical fire breathing lizards, right? If anything I'd expect them to have the highest magic defense...

This right here, folks.

Originally Posted by Nalien

I honestly never understood why Dragoon has lower magic defense... I mean... It's a Job that is supposed to specialize in fighting magical fire breathing lizards, right? If anything I'd expect them to have the highest magic defense...

This is what I caught, and thought.. lol, are they serious? It's like no wonder Ishgard still fighting them Dragons.

Originally Posted by HulveinBlitz

This is what I caught, and thought.. lol, are they serious? It's like no wonder Ishgard still fighting them Dragons.

Then Derplander strolls into Ishgard to help, and goes "Let me nerf my defense and delete my magic defense to help with these dragons!", before promptly using Elusive Jump to fall off a bridge.

It would actually be kind of nice if they made Dragoons low magic defense somehow mechanically relevant... Like, an ability which absorbs 50% magic damage and enhances your next Jump with it. That way OK they have low magic defense, but at least they're using it to create a bigger boost of damage (taking 1000 damage with low magic defense and adding 500 to a Jump > taking 900 with high magic defense and only adding 450 to Jump).

Originally Posted by Nalien

It would actually be kind of nice if they made Dragoons low magic defense somehow mechanically relevant... Like, an ability which absorbs 50% magic damage and enhances your next Jump with it. That way OK they have low magic defense, but at least they're using it to create a bigger boost of damage (taking 1000 damage with low magic defense and adding 500 to a Jump > taking 900 with high magic defense and only adding 450 to Jump).

I really like this idea.

Originally Posted by Nalien

I honestly never understood why Dragoon has lower magic defense... I mean... It's a Job that is supposed to specialize in fighting magical fire breathing lizards, right? If anything I'd expect them to have the highest magic defense...

I've been trying to figure out why Ishgard hasn't won the war against the dragon horde. From the context of what npc's and main scenario suggest, i would say they are slowly bleeding to death!

In that video its actually your whms fault that the drg died. Nobody is stoneskined for nerve cloud. When the party is killing the egg he has enough time to stoneskin everyone because very little damage is going out on the party at that point. You want a change when the fight isn't being properly executed.

The whole mdef thing is just a flavor type thing most likly they can off tank adds better then say a mage. Some people use a drg to tank the garuda ex add because they have higher physical def so they only need 1 tank.

Originally Posted by Zumi

In that video its actually your whms fault that the drg died. Nobody is stoneskined for nerve cloud. When the party is killing the egg he has enough time to stoneskin everyone because very little damage is going out on the party at that point. You want a change when the fight isn't being properly executed.

The whole mdef thing is just a flavor type thing most likly they can off tank adds better then say a mage. Some people use a drg to tank the garuda ex add because they have higher physical def so they only need 1 tank.

They don't actually seem to have a white mage. I just see two scholars. Dragoon in our static never gets one shotted there with proper stoneskin buff.

Originally Posted by Vinyl

They don't actually seem to have a white mage. I just see two scholars. Dragoon in our static never gets one shotted there with proper stoneskin buff.

SCH can still stoneskin there is no reason not to do it almost no damage is going out when you are killing the egg. Do you want to take the risk of someone dying cause the game decides to hit them in the higher damage range?

Originally Posted by Zumi

SCH can still stoneskin there is no reason not to do it almost no damage is going out when you are killing the egg. Do you want to take the risk of someone dying cause the game decides to hit them in the higher damage range?

No, I agree with you. There's plenty of skills and spells you can use to to make sure your entire group survives that aoe and it doesn't seem they were using all of them and the dragoon suffers because of it. I was simply pointing out there was no white mage.