Thread: Dragoons... how do you feel post 4.0?

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Short answer is I enjoy everything about the job, names of abilities, animations, amour, lore and so on. But not the ramp up time for nostrond, and the feeling of failing to get there due to issues out of my control, like something dying or phase change. I'm playing and enjoying summoner right now instead.

I played drg since 1.0, and I have never felt the way I do about it, as I do now in stormblood. I like other dps jobs, I gravitate towards them, and I like to try to play them as optimally as I can. Obviously some jobs I was better at than others, but drg was always my fall back, the one job I loved and was strong yet simple. It was the most balanced job out of the melee for the better part of 4 years. As of right now, I can't stand to even look at it. Dragon Sight, coupled with the long Nastrong Wind-up has driven me away. While I like the mirage dive mechanic, and the Lance Mastery feeling of being able to do strings of combos like no other class, Its just not good enough. I've raided on drg in almost every tier except for 1 (went war lol), but as it is right now, its just not for me. I'm currently rushing ninja to 70 for raid, and will most likely hang up my lance until there is a good enough fix. Potency fixes will help, but in the end, I want dragon sight to go away, and give me back my blood for blood trait, and make the wind-up to nastrond actually mean something...

I won't stop playing mine but it greatly annoys me to play other classes and not see their gauges decay in any way. Also, the fact that they put skill speed on almost every piece of our gear is a slap in the face.,

Honestly, even if they just made LOTD take on a 30s timer by default instead of either 15s or your BOTD bar that would be a welcome change. That way we're not having to hold GK till after a WT or FC to squeeze in that third Nastrond. Just raising that skill ceiling that much higher for a relatively tiny 900+ potency over 30s.

Made me feel like trying other classes when I got to cap mine to 70, now I'm enjoying Samurai, but crossing fingers for some developer nod to the current "state" of Dragoons

For the analysis on the last page, I'm pretty sure our piercing debuff also effects RDM's rapiers as well.

Originally Posted by Coldbrand

For the analysis on the last page, I'm pretty sure our piercing debuff also effects RDM's rapiers as well.

That it does, only certain abilities though

Originally Posted by Katsu78

That it does, only certain abilities though

I could be wrong, so take this with a grain of salt, but I'm pretty sure piercing only affects RDM's non-enhanced melee weaponskills, making it completely useless.

Originally Posted by Riotpersona

I could be wrong, so take this with a grain of salt, but I'm pretty sure piercing only affects RDM's non-enhanced melee weaponskills, making it completely useless.

Flèche and contre sixte also do piercing believe it or not