who gets the drop if you only need 2 melee dps?

[Morzy]

man, now i fear drg will get the shared debuff treatment in 4.0 since it seems like theyre unreplacable at the moment.
another melee with piercing debuff?

Yeah Dragon Kick is literally our level 50 skill. To see that become useless from another class, kinda depressing and makes you think what other jobs could lose in a similar situation. Though I can honestly see why DRK would have such a skill. It just annoys me that DRK doesn't also give me my blunt resistance down.

[LegoTechnic]

Yeah Dragon Kick is literally our level 50 skill. To see that become useless from another class, kinda depressing and makes you think what other jobs could lose in a similar situation. Though I can honestly see why DRK would have such a skill. It just annoys me that DRK doesn't also give me my blunt resistance down.

What annoys me is that no one else does blunt damage at all, which means there's no chance for party synergy.

...Well, unless healers smacking things with staffs and books count. Don't know if they do.

[Nirurin]

What annoys me is that no one else does blunt damage at all, which means there's no chance for party synergy.

...Well, unless healers smacking things with staffs and books count. Don't know if they do.

Funnily enough, I'm almost certain that books and staffs do count as blunt damage lol. Not sure how helpful this is as a boost to monk raid synergy though

[Kabooa]

Funnily enough, I'm almost certain that books and staffs do count as blunt damage lol. Not sure how helpful this is as a boost to monk raid synergy though

It's an extra 5 per bookholder assuming they booksmash all the time.

[Morzy]

There's no raid situation, including AS2, where you'd want to spend a long period of time AoEing on a non-mage. DRG has better oGCD AoE potential than MNK. 200pot/20sec with Gierskogul and 250/120sec with Dragonfire Dive. Compared to 220pot/30sec with Elixir Field.

Alright. It's not very fair to compare MNK to other classes when you don't add in the damage buffs MNK gets.

Elixir field is 330 buffed
Howling Fist is 255 buffed

Idk about DRG

[Morzy]

What annoys me is that no one else does blunt damage at all, which means there's no chance for party synergy.

...Well, unless healers smacking things with staffs and books count. Don't know if they do.

I never actually thought of book smacking. Uhm, lol.

[ChaozK]

Alright. It's not very fair to compare MNK to other classes when you don't add in the damage buffs MNK gets.

Elixir field is 330 buffed
Howling Fist is 255 buffed

Idk about DRG

DRG gets +15% from HT making it

230 for Geirskogul
and 287.5 for Dragonfire Dive.

This is however not considering that you cant built up BotD for geirskogul unless you do a single target rotation, so its kinda moot, leaving only Dragonfire Dive which due to its long CD doesnt account for much.
This makes DRG actually the worst melee when it comes to off GCD AOE options by far (even behind NIN due to Doton/Katon).This is ok however since its on GCD options (doomspike) are so good.