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

I did some idea crafting, and came up with, what I beleive to be, a pretty good way to change lotd and nastrond...

Lets keep the eye mechanic in there, maybe change it from 4 to 3 or keep it at 4, its w/e for this idea. But Basically, I'd like to see botd change to lotd permanently once you geirskogul at the required number of eyes. Make lotd give either dmg buffs to jumps or combos or both. This way, once you get it rolling, it starts to build up to something greater. Nastrond would most likely have to have a potency decrease to compensate for lotd being up full time. Now to keep the eye mechanic relavent, why not just make it so that the number of eyes effects the potency of nastrond while in lotd? This way you can choose to use it early for phase changes or to go full 100% dmg on it when you get to full stacks...

What does everyone think?

I think LotD should simply be sustainable once it's reached and that gaining eyes while in LotD should increase Jump potencies by 10% per eye. Or a hundred other things myself, and plenty of other people have suggested to salvage this class

No changes in 4.01, they going to evaluate dps on omega but the translated discussion on reddit basically says dragoons are where there are because of their utility they "greatly" increase party's dps. No mention of the issues with eye mechanics.

Originally Posted by Frowny

They have a VERY loose definition of "greatly". BL, while great, is inherently random given the nature of crits and the fact it is on a 3min cooldown. In current EX runs, you usually get 2 good uses out of it; that is hardly a huge difference.

Hungry Eyes (or Dragon Sight) is a 2min cooldown I think? And 10% for us/5% for our tether buddy IF they're right up on us for like 10s. Given a baseline of 3k DPS, that's only an extra 3000/1500 damage. It is something, but not make-or-break.

Gonna edit to add more.

I've seen greatly and hugely depending on the translation.

Originally Posted by HaiHai

No changes for us at all.

Meanwhile Ninja gets buffed.

#feelsdrgman

It's a nerf.

Originally Posted by Nominous

It's a nerf.

It is, but I don't see it drastically changing damage one way or another.

Originally Posted by Nominous

It's a nerf.

You're right, patch notes had a typo I guess.

Originally Posted by HaiHai

You're right, patch notes had a typo I guess.

It really is. If you look at the bottom of the page (Resolved issue part) it stated that Bhavacakra damage was changed from Physical to Magical, which means that it isn't affected by 20% damage buff from Dripping blade trait anymore, reducing its effective potency from 660 to 600.