Quote Originally Posted by Frein View Post
Yes, I know it's an important combo, but you also have the frontal combo, so it's not like you just lose all sources of damage when you whiff. Also, you can salvage some of it with Feint > Disembowel.

And not all DRG WS have low accuracy, it's only Impulse Drive, though I have to admit that WS would struggle to strike the wide side of a barn. Still, it seems counterintuitive to sacrifice so much just to make one of your combos reliable. It could very well be that it's the best way, but since DRG is pretty bad for most things, I only really played it at Ifrit and there I didn't find much use for the CT combo as it has super long animation locks and you can just as well dart in and out for the DS combo the few times it's actually safe to combo at all.
I think you've forgotten how important it is. Let me remind you.

True Thrust -> Leg Sweep -> Doom spike: True Thrust does crap damage, Leg sweep does crap damage, and doom spike is the only good skill. Problem with this combo is that its executed from the front, meaning it is very dangerous to do against bosses.

Feint -> Disembowel: Great damage, but Disembowel has a pretty lengthy cooldown. So if you miss a lot, you spend more time using Feint than anything else, and it just doesn't do good dmg.

Vorpal Thrust -> Impulse Drive -> Chaos Thrust: Awesome damage, but both Vorpal Thrust AND Impulse Drive have very low accuracy. I have about 398 acc total so far, and even with "hawks eye" i still can't hit the broad side of a barn with these skills against higher level bosses.

Vorpal Thrust -> Impulsve Drive -> Ring of Talons: Another awesome damage combo, but this one is aoe..and a high damage aoe on top of that. You miss either of those low-acc skills you aren't aoe'ing anything.


If you take out those two combos you are left with very sub-par dps. At that point someone might as well take a bard, a monk, or even a war over you because you aren't doing enough damage to justify taking up a party slot. On top of that your aoe reliability is almost 0, as leg sweep does loldamage...and you're likely to die many many many times on bosses due to trying to execute frontal combos. All in all acc is a DRG's bread and butter, without it he is pretty gimp.