Quote Originally Posted by Mycow8me View Post
Ya ya well i prefer to git gud on blm since atleast is easier and worth it.
Dragoon's DPS is more than comparable with Monk's. In equal circumstances, they're off by fewer than like 2% while buffing a MCH/BRD by ~9 or 7% ish. So I dunno?

And, as someone who plays both DRG and BLM at the current time, I strongly disagree with BLM being easier. Its rotation is far more rigid and requires a great deal more skill to pump out equivalent damage to what a Dragoon can do with half the effort. The Dragoon rotation currently is 40% positionals, 60% anywhere skills. Missing your positionals as a Dragoon is more punishing than it is on, say, Monk, since there's so few of them and each is a pretty hefty swing, but they're... really not hard to hit. And missing one or two positionals in a fight is going to happen and it barely impacts your final DPS.

Like, you wave off the "git gud" comment, but, seriously. If you're doing shit damage on Dragoon, you're not playing it well - or correctly. The rotation is only as rigid as you make it, and it's no more or less rigid than either other melee. It's far LESS rigid than Black Mage (if you're trying to play optimally). So meh.

The skills we get from 52-60 are a rather natural extension of the existing skillset. If you're unable to play current Dragoon at a high level, it's not a fault of the job, it's just that its playstyle isn't for you. That's okay. But let's not bash the job and complain about something that a vast number of people do just fine with because it doesn't mesh with how you want to play the game.