Quote Originally Posted by Keith_Dragoon View Post
You say FFII is a horrible example yet you link me to a post that compares Dragoon to a character from Dynasty Warriors.

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While in the lore Dragon knights do ride Dragons and Fight alongside Wyverns they are not mounted calvary who use range weapons named Dragons. the only real similarity is after the Napoleonic Wars they were trained to use lances.

As for Kain himself while he did not fight alongside a Wyvern in FFIV he did care for his father's Dragon who does not physically take place in the game. There is no proof for or against this so its best left in the dark.
Man, people really love jumping on the Ma Chao reference. While that does make me proud that the rest of my points are all stronger than that, it's frustrating because it was a joke. I wasn't saying "Look how great a Dragoon Ma Chao is!" I was saying, "We can't leave it as simple as what I have so far, or we end up with Ma Chao." If I was serious, the caption under the image would not have been what it was.

The rest of your post, however, is exactly what I am saying from the other angle. Though what you are saying is correct as well, it adds no evidence whatsoever for them basically soul-bonding with a baby dragon and having the smaller, weaker creature fight alongside them.

Honestly, if a dragoon was truly that close to the dragonkind, I think he'd let the child stay with its parents and instead try to impress one he could actually ride and fight alongside HIM. Again, I don't see the ability to ride a dragon mount into battle happening in XIV. The other DD would just kind of look over and be like, "HEY GUYS! JIM'S GOT THIS ONE! LET'S GO BACK TO THE TAVERN!"

Still, mostly, this is about turning DRG into a pet class, which a lot of people seem to be against. DRGs seem ready to stand on their own, here, and I can see why.

Another pressing issue is that BST is going to be utilizing a lot fewer monsters in XIV, and may in fact actually only be using one from beginning to end (Yoshida touched on this, but didn't say whether WHICH you keep from beginning to end would vary by option at all). This being the case, playing DRG would end up being exactly the same as playing BST, mechanically speaking. That sounds counter-productive...