Drg buff usage

[Wayfinder3]

You should be using all of your damage buffs ideally. Blood for blood is only really a bad when a high healing phase is coming and it’s like bleeding edge progression so you’re undergeared. Such as week 1 o12s and even then you still use it in between the healing phases

[SHLunchB0x]

I have to assume by lancer buffs they were talking about Battle Litany in particular. Since many dragoons pop it as part of their opener, if there are two dragoons in a group it's fairly common to ask when the other person is going to use it so both don't pop it at the same time wasting the buff. I know personally if there's another dragoon and there wasn't any communication, I'll hold off on using it a little later waiting an extra ~10 seconds to see if it pops up on my buff bar, then I'll just burn it. Figuring out who is going to use it when avoids this situation.

Also B4B should definitely be part of your opener. It's a huge damage boost and there are no risks considering 95% of the bosses in this game open with either a tank buster or non-threatening raid-wide damage. In the majority of situations B4B will only make a big difference if you're getting hit by an attack that can be avoided normally, so I wouldn't consider it a risky use.