6.2 Dragoon potential changes/assessment of current (6.11)

[ElariaIlostia]

New player (sprout) here, currently doing Stormblood lvl70 instances before moving onto Shadowbringers. When I first setup my account I picked DRG because I thought it sounded cool, leaping all about the battlefield with a huge spear. I am so glad I did. I have been having an absolute blast. I honestly can't imagine how any of the other jobs could be more enjoyable than this. If you break it down it's really just a series of fixed rotations that you just rinse and repeat, but a lot of the component skills are positional-based, which adds a really cool element to it. It's not a static role - there's so much moving around all the time to make the most out of your abilities, and it's just so much fun. Plus things like doing Evasive Dive to leap out of a glowing red circle, Jump to get back to the boss afterwards. It's just great. That whole gaze of the brood mechanic you get at lvl70 is interesting as well, where different abilities get stronger when it's active. It's a great concept. I only have one ability that uses it at the moment, but am looking forward to getting more later on. Around the end of Heavensward I did start to struggle a bit with the sheer number of abilities but once I grouped my hotbars more logically everything just clicked into place much better.

People say when you get to 90 you should switch to another class but I can't really see myself doing that at all. DRG is just so much fun. It does seem to be relatively rare though, compared to some other DPS classes. The Achievements say I've done 84 instances so far, and I think I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I've met another DRG in one. On the rare occasions where there is a fellow DRG in the group I always make sure they're the one who benefits from my Left Eye 5% damage buff whenever I use it.

[JakkuPM]

People say when you get to 90 you should switch to another class but I can't really see myself doing that at all. DRG is just so much fun.

idk who's saying that but don't listen to them. play what's fun for you. to me, DRG is the most fun melee dps at the moment (SAM was my favorite before the 6.1 changes). i really hope whatever changes they had for DRG in 6.2 don't happen; it feels great to play.

[CarnageTheory]

I don't know who told you that, but as of the latest patch and the new ultimate, DRG's sitting at the head of the table, according to logs. If you like it and want to raid, there's no reason to switch to another class!

[darkdyllon]

the thing that is concerning is that instead of pooling all these changes for 7.0 (you know ... an EXPANSION) they're already working on these and removing aspects of a job people love, because their future goal is to remove crit (or mitigate it's importance)
it's fine if they want to get away from Crit (an problem THEY created mind you) but give us something in return.
like with Samurai and Kaiten, they remove Kaiten and that's it ... nothing new to replace it, instead they could remove Kaiten in 7.0 and add something new to the rotation.(or rework it, since the animation is the best, twirling your blade straight into the sheath and then let out an massive hit, it was truly an add-on to Iaitsu)

now we're seeing that here with DRG and AST being next on the chopping block.

remember how lackluster DRK and SCH felt when they got announced for Endwalker, and when the media tour changes were laughable at best? they could fix this by simple pooling it for 7.0 and BOOM all these changes and backend changes.
but nope, let's do these half assed reworks just to make the devs life slightly easier, while ruining the core feeling of a job for the player.

i truly hope that Yoshi is speaking the truth when he always says "we're reading the official forums, so keep feedback coming there" because concidering how quiet he is on the Samurai backlash (and it's really an big pushback, haven't seen much like it yet)
i doubt he and his team are reading the forums (also FF14 ISN'T an japanese only game, it's kinda stupid that the devs can't even read/write english, when are we gonna get an dedicated community manager who actively posts on these forums to make up for it?)

[CasterSvarog]

Man, I wish it was just gonna be simple stuff like making Doom spike available at an earlier level or making dragonsight into something you don't need a Macro for to get good results. But after the changes Samurai got i am honestly worried for Dragoons future.
I honestly half expect dumb stuff like Dragonfire dive being an Aoe version of Jump, Auto crits on most skills because you could just Life surge them, spineshatter being turned into a not thunderclap clone. I really don't wanna see that because I love the job quite a lot. It's got such a well build rotation and it's just plain fun to look at with all of its jumps even if you can't double weave in alot of cases because of that. It's something different from other jobs who instead have a faster ogcd by default. Don't take that away.