How to Dragoon per Second: A DPS Paradigm

[Khel]

Someone did some tooltip translation.

DRG

Geirskogul

Line AoE towards target with potency of 220
Requires Blood of the Dragon active
Cooldown 35s // Range 15y // Radius 15y

Dragonfire Dive
Same as before but buffed to 300 potency

Other Ability Notes

Elusive Jump - Cooldown possibly reduced to 60s (screenshot is unclear)

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme..._translations/

[aleph_null]

Hmm it seems like the botd duration vs geirskogul usage management is no longer the theme of drg for 4.0? That's a bit disappointing, but I hope there'll be something equally or more interesting among the skills not yet revealed.

[Khel]

Hmm it seems like the botd duration vs geirskogul usage management is no longer the theme of drg for 4.0? That's a bit disappointing, but I hope there'll be something equally or more interesting among the skills not yet revealed.

Might be more about building up to GOTFB and unleashing skills usable under that?

They are changing more than I expected, most players seem pretty happy about them. They do have a poll on the gen discussion about what job you will main (started after this info came out) and Monk is last with Drg right behind him.

[Stormbad]

Wow, so they are making B4B a Dragoon only skill? I can see the role skills required as Invigorate, Leg Sweep, Goad, Diversion and FREESLOT.

[PheonixCain]

since Blood for blood, Hawk's Eye, Raging Strikes, Internal Release all gone, looks like Battle Litany is the only remaining dmg buff ability for us?

and from the pvp description translation, it's a 10 sec of 10% boost, so pretty much like ninja's trick attack but BL will be party-wise and unlimited targets?

[aleph_null]

It's too early to claim either way, but I think we'd keep blood for blood for lancer/dragoon, or maybe get something similar that'll replace it. Btw internal release stayed on monk's skill bar when Yoshi showed himself playing monk during the live letter.

[Jonnycbad]

We're losing Leg Sweep, Invigorate, Feint, Power Surge, Phlebotomize, Keen Flurry, Ring of Thorns. So chances are we'll be getting a new ability or two to buff our damage. Heavy Thrust, may now combo into something else since we're losing RoT. Maybe a split combo like True Thrust->Heavy Thrust->Penta Thrust, and Penta Thrust gives 20% damage and heavy thrust gives a haste buff *shrug*

[Stormbad]

To be clear, we still get leg sweep and invigorate, but they are role actions (although leg sweep's damage is now gone). From what I've been reading, it seems like our potencies for our existing skills are getting buffed. So rotation and upkeep become easier while using overall less amount of skills.

[mosaicex]

..Maybe a split combo like True Thrust->Heavy Thrust->Penta Thrust, and Penta Thrust gives 20% damage and heavy thrust gives a haste buff *shrug*

Penta Thrust seems to be oGCD skill so I doubted that.

[HulveinBlitz]

From the ability video.

The dragon he shoots up, doesn't cost any botd time to use. However, its only purpose seems to be building to allow to go into red blood of the dragon. Looks like you need to do twice, followed by a GK to activate red.
GK no longer consumes a bunch of time off it, but instead adds a bit and takes you into red form at the same time.
Can use both 4th combos back to back.
So the question is.. what skill consumes our blood of the dragon? Nothing ate it as GK currently does?