Thread: 7.1 Dragoon Changes Complaints

I was thinking about how much fun I had in p5s during ProtoCarby's dashes and realised I am really missing spineshatter's use and feel as a damaging gap closer... I remember fondly someone saying in p10s 'You look like you're having so much fun leaping around like that' as I navigated the poison gaps during burst... The feeling of being in the air even though my pixel will always be tied to the ground cause giving DRGs 1 sec invulns while airborne would likely break the game.

Since the Devs dislike thinking about animation locked jumps and movement (as much as I love thinking about them) and there's a lack of adding more oGCD Jumps with our follow ups being ranged attacks instead (my psudo-ranged mobile DRG dream seems further and further away these days) I'm going to toss in my latest silly idea that some folks might hate.

I think to bring back some 'job fantasy' bring back spineshatter with potency but on the GCD and Potency Neutral to you next combo hit, whatever it might be. Using it doesn't break combo, it sits outside the 10 string combo either as it's own thing or as a 'replacement' hit after you disengage or on the button with Elusive, similar to reapers Regress but boss targeted and damaging. Elusive's cooldown is so long it doesn't make a difference if you can't use it or can only use it to return to your target and stab them with your spear (As a DRG should!). When Dragoons are forced to disengage we can Backflip, talon, and re-engage with Spineshatter, then continue the GCD loop as intended... Maybe the tradeoff is you can't weave after it so you have to manage what's being woven if you need to re-engage during burst? It would make for some fun encounter specific refinements that high-end raiders could play with without making it 'unoptimal' or more difficult for casual DRGs.

I have generally been of the mind that all the oGCDs should be jumps(or at least ranged). I don't want to break or mess with the 10string combo, that's the heart of the job and I think it shouldn't change, it should be worked with. So this is more a wip idea I think it could add something interesting to the job that isn't just Another follow up button and something that is a jump you have to work around but also is useful and contributes to the whole theme of the job which is, We jump, We dive, We stab.

Maybe everyone will hate this, maybe someone else has suggested something similar... I dunno, I just wish I was jumping and weaving more and not less these days.

Originally Posted by AngelMercury

I have generally been of the mind that all the oGCDs should be jumps(or at least ranged).

I mean I kinda agree, but lately I felt that the job would have a lot more "job fantasy" if the GCDs were all jumps. That is, having actual airtime. Could even go as far as making some extra-slow (3,5s-5,0s) GCDs that keep you airborne and manually aim the landing like in PvP with the LB, and like there we're invulnerable while airborne. This would also make the job inherently interesting as something that can work around nearly any mechanic but inherently struggles to perform not getting around mechanics (as in, wanting to be hit, since our GCDs cause us to become untargetable).

I don’t really understand the logic behind making drg less busy and jumpy. Is this a way of clearing space for giant summoned dragon limbs to be the new focus or to make crits matter more? It really doesn’t feel like a dragoon, but maybe that’s just because I associate drg with being well designed.

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Originally Posted by Nikoto

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Originally Posted by Nikoto

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Anyway, going back to this being the policy of the thread now. Just couldn't sit here with this troll feeding misinformation about how the job plays for anyone who might need the numbers handy.

PVP DRG kept the deal more damage the further you are from your target on certain attacks mechanic, but BRD didn't. I wonder if it's being considered for 8.0 DRG.

There's also quite a disconnect between the animations and gameplay now which I went over in my own DRG breakdown thread. They've moved away from many of the weighty animations that had lots of impact into these very quick (and often anatomically nonsensical) animations while also gutting half the job. So your character is darting around like out of an anime without really doing much of anything gameplay wise. It actually would have made more sense to stick with the slower, more powerful hits if this is the direction they were going.

Originally Posted by CidHeiral

There's also quite a disconnect between the animations and gameplay now which I went over in my own DRG breakdown thread. They've moved away from many of the weighty animations that had lots of impact into these very quick (and often anatomically nonsensical) animations while also gutting half the job. So your character is darting around like out of an anime without really doing much of anything gameplay wise. It actually would have made more sense to stick with the slower, more powerful hits if this is the direction they were going.

I saw your post, it was very good and I wholly agree about the animations. As someone who works in a related field I'm kinda shocked some of those poses made it through. I'm sure the animation team is working very hard but a lot of those bits feel quite overlooked. In general it feels like there's a lack of care directed at DRG lately. It's like after freaking out the DRG player base with the word Rework they tossed their hands up and said 'Fine, we just won't try anything then' and now we get these awful decisions.

I mean I guess JP is happy to weave less? But I'd say the same thing to them as I do to folks here on the English forums. Instead of trying to change the few things that make a job different from the others because you don't like how this one job plays maybe it's ok that we have a job that has skills that move you and lots of weaves. If you don't like those things there's 20 other jobs to try that don't do that and probably a few more jobs in the future.