Quote Originally Posted by Alaltus View Post
What should be dragoon's saving grace when it comes to being lower dps is that it's emnity shedding abilities should allow it to go all out where other dd's hold back. But throughout my experience of endgame i dont recall dd's having to hold back beyound allowing the tank to build up initial hate other than in certain instances where holding back isnt emnity related or emnity resetting and so has no relation to their previous emnity levels. Whats more many bosses where shedding hate might possibly help dragoon prove to only save it from a fraction of the dmg the boss dishes out as the major threat from said bosses are from aoe's indiscriminate of your enmity.

I've given out my view on surges before, they require too much micro management and really arent worth it when it comes down to it. If your a really good dragoon who can keep power surge up constantly and avoid all aoes sent your way then more power to you. I myself however just cant justify the extra damage i would/could take by keeping power surge up as well as the tp cost and the nuisance of it. Life surge is just garbage on anything worth fighting sure it helps when farming mobs that can actually hurt you but thats about it. I've been playing lancer since alpha and these surges are at the worst they have ever been.
I agree with everything you just said, they've all but destroyed LNC/DRG for us. I don't waste TP on surges, the boost to dmg from power surge isn't worth the TP lost, when needed life surge isn't potent enough to warrant maintaining it.
The mid range nature of lnc/drg, I believe, was meant to keep us out of AoE range for alot of that stuff, but somehow that didn't pan out. We got elusive jump, yay, I think that's helped me ~4 times now, that may change w/ the WAR balancing act, then enmity reduction may be useful again.
There isn't really anything else going for it tho, MNK might have to hold back a bit where DRG doesn't but chances are the extra enmity reduction isn't going to make up the DPS anyway and BLM has plenty of enmity reduction for it to go balls to the walls.
If they gave us back just a little of our old pimpness, the surges, the power, maybe enough distance to be clear of general mob centered AoE so we don't have to run off or get hit. Something, anything back.