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

First time poster, been playing DRG for a while and here are some suggestions I think would fix a lot of the DRG issues:

1. LotD management needs revision. I suggest having dragonfire drive provide dive ready also and would be willing to have mirage dive nerfed to 175 just to balance out the initial opening burst. This way it is easier to enter LotD closer to opener.

2. The eyes need to be permanent as well as the Dragon gauge. Here is how I would suggest you lose eyes:

-Lose 1 eye when BotD drops instead of all eyes. This way you want to be careful with your BotD management but the penalty is not to severe.
-Lose all eyes when you die.
-Lose all eyes when entering a new raid, trial or dungeon or exiting it.
-Lose all eyes by spending them on LotD.

This eye management is not OP because you need to use and plan your expenditure constantly and consistently. If you hold them you are losing new potential eyes and DPS in the process.

3. I would make Geirskogul and Nastrond AoE work like in PvP. With higher damage to the first target and having diminishing returns on the other ones. I would streamline it to 250 and 350 respectively. They should not be our primary AoE tools and get very rarely used that way.

4. Talking of AoE rotation, the 5 second added time to BotD from the Sonic Thrust combo is an awesome idea. I should not be penalized in my BotD management because I want to switch to my AoE combo. In fact, I would gate Sonic Thrust behind BotD the same way that Fang and Claw and Wheeling Thrust are.

5. In regards to Dragon Sight. I understand that the short range is meant to be used with melee DPSes but the payload feels weak for the amount of mobility management that requires. I would buff the Right and Left eye to 15% and 8% respectively. I mean it is still gated under a 120 sec cooldown.

6. And this is just to add to the cool factor. It would be awesome in my opinion to have mirage dive and the dragon sight animation change color depending on if you are on BotD or LotD. So have mirage dive be red when done on LotD and have the dragon sight tether and animation be blue when not on LotD cause blood dragon right? :P

Anyways, hopefully someone is listening and can test these.
For the rest of us please discuss 

I'm a bit displeased with Yoshida thoughts about Dragoon , Just because we have utility for raid to buff all that we have to be the lowest of the melee. Because he had decided to shaft us for the 4 Eyes that fall off when
botd ends , Nastrond build it up too long. I already leveled my Samurai to 70 and seriously didn't want to. All I got to say to the Dev team try playing DRG and having your team DPS meter you , then you might know how I feel when I get laughed at for having the lowest score. Thanks for nothing.

Lol if your going to kill drg like they did in 11 at least give us a wyvren. =P

Originally Posted by Gravton

Lol if your going to kill drg like they did in 11 at least give us a wyvren. =P

They do that to fix this game i will uninstall it and pretend all of it never happened.

Samurai are actually from the interdimensional rift, from the world of FFXI where they ruled for 10 years. Omega created them based on patch notes and the lack of nerfs and the Hasso/Seigan era.

Honestly if my choices are to be a melee bard or have my wyvern back and be the opposite of SMN with the focus on me instead I'll take that choice.

I was kidding, although if LotD summoned the FF11 wyvern that used a breath attack instead nostrad....that would have been more visually satisfying than the re-skins we have now. I was just commenting on the fall of drg and the rise of loldrg from 11.

Ran through Omega yesterday and cleared all 4 in the span of like 90 minutes due to good queue times as many others were doing it at that time as well....

Surprisingly, I was able to keep BotD up most of the time even while mechanics happened which prevent you from attacking for a period of time. I had some good groups, we only wiped once in Catastrophe (understandable), got some commendations and honestly felt really good about my performance overall. I'm sure this feeling will change once Savage hits and I really start to feel my lack of DPS overall but I think I'm going to wait until then to decide if I'm benching the job or not.

Managed to get the awesome Head piece which you should be able to see in my headshot here!