Dragoons Thread

[SJBIRDY]

I've seen a lot of hate and negativity towards dragoons. Thought I would start a thread for people who play dragoon or are interested in the class to chat, tactics, gear whatever really. I have just recently started myself and am loving the class hope to find others who do

[bswpayton]

I've seen a lot of hate and negativity towards dragoons. Thought I would start a thread for people who play dragoon or are interested in the class to chat, tactics, gear whatever really. I have just recently started myself and am loving the class hope to find others who do

Gooon life

[Deathgiver]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...A-DPS-Paradigm This thread already exists.

[ManuelBravo]

Really? I've seen nothing but love. If there is hate it would probably be for under gear or DRG's who don't know the rotations.

[Khel]

Pretty much everything I have seen has been jokes due to the old stereotype. I'm still fairly new to the game but it still seems like we are still somewhat susceptible to death a bit due to class mechanics but on the bright side Samurais may join us.

[Lollie]

The jokes for the most part are just fun relics of when drg had much more inherent job mechanics to kill itself with.It is meant to be fun/funny reflection of the dark ages of goon. when we had half the mdef we do now with almost all unavoidable dmg being magical, and every other skill used to root you for 2-3s at a time. Less so the connotation from a previous ff mmo where it was really just a garbage bst in implementation.

[ManuelBravo]

The jokes for the most part are just fun relics of when drg had much more inherent job mechanics to kill itself with.It is meant to be fun/funny reflection of the dark ages of goon. when we had half the mdef we do now with almost all unavoidable dmg being magical, and every other skill used to root you for 2-3s at a time. Less so the connotation from a previous ff mmo where it was really just a garbage bst in implementation.

I don't know on FFXI I out dmg as a good SAM at times. SAM were considered overall well in server. I think it's more of how well you know the job and skills. But everyone has their view. Some people were just terrible and didn't know how to properly link ws to get most out of DRG dmg.Solo light and darkness as a DRG/SAM , with relic you could almost keep doing light off most ws of other classes and with a dependable BLM Burst most endgame content enemies were going down fast. Then again only a few players know how to do that. In this game, thanks to no linking ws, is more direct. If they brought back that old system it may fall again on who knew what to do and when. Then we could say who plays as an AZURE DRG and who is a LOL DRG.

[Lollie]

Off topic but the statement was about what the job was, not factoring in player skill. Drg skill set in xi was just a very limited version of a bst if said bst only used pot pets if said bst could only call one once every 2 hours. It wasn't till quite deep into the production this was alieviated. A poorly played anything is going to be worse then a well played anything.

[Lynesse]

I practically just dinged 60 and have been looking to share my feelings about the class.

Dragoon has a surprising amount of depth. The fact that Thendiel's old Dragoon guide was 64 pages long proves that.

It also seems to be misunderstood. From what I've seen, Dragoon was an easy class to play pre-HW. Some people still seem to think it's only about using Jumps between GCDs.

But the timing of Blood of the Dragoon is so tight that it can be really hard to maximize our potential.

When you haven't memorized an encounter, it can be difficult to know when to delay your cooldowns. One wrong decision can harshly punish an inexperienced player.

Our rotation changes as oGCDs come off cooldown, and the ability bloat can make for some awkward finger gymnastics.

It's a class that's easy to pick up, but hard to master.

[Khel]

Off topic but the statement was about what the job was, not factoring in player skill. Drg skill set in xi was just a very limited version of a bst if said bst only used pot pets if said bst could only call one once every 2 hours. It wasn't till quite deep into the production this was alieviated. A poorly played anything is going to be worse then a well played anything.

Pre nerf Penta-Thrust though