Quote Originally Posted by Kalise View Post
Also, the Azure Dragoon uses dragon power to fight dragons. That's literally their schtick.
Yes, but isn't that merely due to the futility they'd otherwise face in using a melee weapon on an enemy flying dozens of feet above them?

They're trading limited ranged for nearly unlimited range by, effectively, flying.

A MCH, by comparison, would be trading a mechanical gun-fired projectile for a self-propelled non-mechanical 'projectile' that simply cannot be fired from a gun and sees no benefit from being "fired" at all (a... dragon... something from the toolkits of XI DRGs and maybe Beastmasters).