Dragon Limitbreak, Heavensward Dragoon Heavy Expansion & More Questions

[Alexia89]

All the jobs are getting unique LB animations for LB3- except I believe WHM, MNK, PLD and BLM I believe are retaining the current LB's.

As for each expansion being "heavy on one job", I doubt it- dragoons just happen to very much suit the theme of this expansion due to the war between Ishgard and Dravania.

After checking out the DRG artifact gear in the benchmark I can't help feeling they went a BIT overboard.... get rid of those ludicrous "side wings" and the set would actually be quite stunning. The atrocious state of it as is absolutely put me off taking DRG to 60 anytime soon.
Astro and SMN artifact too damn sexy <3

[Rufalus]

Geography made dragoon such a focus for this expansion. We are going to Ishgard which has long been established as home of dragoons and pointy sticks in the lore. You can probably expect DRGs to be all over the main scenario.

[Jacost]

From what I heard about loldrg in XI, half the job's dps was meant to come from it's pet wyvern like the smn class we have here, except that their pet didn't scale with level, leaving them in the dust. Maybe that was fixed later, idk, I've never played XI.

But yeah, this is about Ishgard vs Dravania, so Dragoons will naturally play a large part in that.

[Alberel]

The trailers are focusing on the dragoon, not the expansion itself. The only focus on dragoons in Heavensward will be story-related; they are not getting any special treatment or extra perks compared to the other jobs. All jobs are getting new job-specific LBs in Heavensward, they just showed the dragoon one off first.

[Firepower]

The LOLDRG in FFXI times was because melee were useful for only one thing against HNM's and that was skillchaining, it was also very much frowned upon to melee the bosses so most people would /sam and meditate, skillchain, all the blm's would MB and that would be it. Meleeing the bosses fed them TP causing them to spam skills, DRG's wyvern pet did just that and as such made them useless. Furthermore they also had their multi hit weapon skills massively nerfed as they were incredibly overpowered when first introduced.

A handful of jobs were left out for these or other reasons and as such retained the "lol" factor. In the case of melee dps (RNG was outright the best DPS around so considered anyway), considering tanks, healers, support and black mages are very important.

Pre Abyssea.

MNK - Boost/Chi blast
THF - Treasure hunter
DRK - Stun
SAM - Meditate (can combine with /thf for guaranteed hit on skillchain vs non spike flail bosses)
BLU - can solo skillchain


That leaves

WAR - technically a tank of some sorts but inferior to PLD or NIN so subjob status only, perhaps a backup tank but I don't know why you would want someone to come stand around on WAR/NIN instead of NIN/WAR or PLD/WAR.
BST - Solo job (pet feeds enemy tp, do not use)
PUP - Another pet class........
LOLDRG - no use other than skillchain (pet feeds enemy tp, do not use) go level sam!


In response to why DRG features a lot in the new expansion... ITS A DRAGOON and the expansion is about DRAGONS!!! That's pretty obvious.........

[Tsuga]

Like others have said, dragoons are the focus of the trailer because they originated from Ishgard, and are experts at fighting dragons - which seem to be our primary enemy in 3.0. I'm guessing we'll see a lot of them in the main scenario.

If you have any doubts about this then take into consideration that the opening movie for Heavensward had been in development for over a year, so since pretty close to the launch of 2.0 (from what I remember from the live letter). It was in no way designed to repair a largely NA community reputation of the job, since that reputation had hardly had time to grow before the cutscene was drafted.

I do think that the more recent buffs to drg were a response to community negging on the job, though, and I think that Yoshida has such a serious reaction to their reputation because Dragoons are essentially the face of 3.0.