A Little Quality of Life Suggestion for Dragoons

[FallenShadows]

How about scratching the timer on Life of the Dragon and turning it into a stack mechanic? When a Drg enters LotD, they have 3 stacks of their eyes remaining. Each Nastrond uses an eye up, and when the last one is done, you re-enter a fresh Blood of the Dragon. This way, you aren't forced to lose eyes on transition phases or horrendously long pulls (assuming you built up LotD already) but at the same time no one is going to just sit in LotD forever since ignoring Nastrond would be detrimental to overall dps. This type of QoL adjustment would maintain Dragoon's current kit and serve to clean up phase punishment without raising the "Max dps potential" of dragoon but also making it less frustrating to play, so... hooray for balancing!

[FallenShadows]

Part 2: Now that idea on its own is great, and probably one of the best options to improve Dragoon without upsetting its damage:utility balance. Piggybacking off that idea, perhaps adding in a little more control for triggering LotD might also be beneficial (for situations where the Drg has, say, 2 or 3 eyes or Geirskogul is on CD). My suggestion for this would be to shift the "trigger" for LotD from Geirskogul to BotD reactivation, something like: "Reactivating Blood of the Dragon with 2, 3, or 4 stacks of Gaze of the First Brood consumes 1 stack and enters the "Life of the Dragon" state." This adds a bit more depth to the class in general, and more deeply rewards people who can keep up BotD with just rotation (utilizing dragoon's full potential of 4 max stacks for 3 Nastronds) but also refrains from heavy punishment from mechanics. It also adds a bit of punishment to people who need to reactivate BotD to upkeep the duration but... yeah.