Dragon sight

[Wilford111]

I'm sorry but Dragon Sight was a horrible skill to use during your burst. It was incredibly tedious (on controller) to navigate down to the player you want to buff then push the button then deselect them then reselect the boss to continue your rotation. Getting rid of that skill was the best thing to happen to DRG in a long time.

[Carighan]

I'm sorry but Dragon Sight was a horrible skill to use during your burst. It was incredibly tedious (on controller) to navigate down to the player you want to buff then push the button then deselect them then reselect the boss to continue your rotation. Getting rid of that skill was the best thing to happen to DRG in a long time.

That was more a general issue with the UI and the controls though. There's no reason for it to work like this. And in this case dev "laziness" caused a cool and visually nice ability to be lost.

Like, it could have been trivially be made to work like Dance Partner or Kardia: You pre-select the target before combat (same button, it just does something else out of combat), and in-combat that target gets the buff, no need to select anybody.

[HikariKurosawa]

I think they could bring back spineshatter dive if they remove the mobility component of it and make it behave like high jump, then we can keep our actual mobility cooldown without being overtuned. Why not too, but we're not getting both original spineshatter and mobility, and yeah I do not want to lose an actual mobility cooldown just for some dated jump animation that is used for mobility 1/100 times because it is optimal to use it in burst window.

That was more a general issue with the UI and the controls though. There's no reason for it to work like this. And in this case dev "laziness" caused a cool and visually nice ability to be lost.

Like, it could have been trivially be made to work like Dance Partner or Kardia: You pre-select the target before combat (same button, it just does something else out of combat), and in-combat that target gets the buff, no need to select anybody.

Sounds a lot like homogenization. Funny to see people known to complain about homogenization in this game asking for blatant examples of it. Or is it not homogenization because it's a different status effect with a different theme and animation?

[Valence]

Imagine if spineshatter behaved like a mini Skyshatter and you could move up in the air for a short amount of time before landing somewhere... Let the dragoons fly

I'm sorry but Dragon Sight was a horrible skill to use during your burst. It was incredibly tedious (on controller) to navigate down to the player you want to buff then push the button then deselect them then reselect the boss to continue your rotation. Getting rid of that skill was the best thing to happen to DRG in a long time.

Out of curiosity since controller stuff is literally alien to me, how do AST controller players deal with their cards and bursts?

[Azurarok]

Out of curiosity since controller stuff is literally alien to me, how do AST controller players deal with their cards and bursts?

Pressing up/down on d-pad to scroll through the party list. It's a lot of button presses but it's been doable even in EW where you play 3 random cards in that span.

I still ended up making a macro for Dragonsight to give it to my focus target though, since there's only one real choice for the whole duty

[Mikey_R]

It is worth noting that AST has a 1.5 second 'buffer' window whilst casting, which gives enough time to target who you want, then quickly retarget the boss.

Dragoon has no such luxury, so it is much harder to double weave, hence why a macro was used.

[Azurarok]

It is worth noting that AST has a 1.5 second 'buffer' window whilst casting, which gives enough time to target who you want, then quickly retarget the boss.

Dragoon has no such luxury, so it is much harder to double weave, hence why a macro was used.

Not quite true. We usually use lightspeed for the burst and double weave play/draw/divination/lord of crowns/oracle, especially now that it has 2 charges.

[Aco505]

Dragon Sight's vfx and sfx should at least become an upgrade to Lance Charge's considering the former is thematic.

[Asari5]

imagine having to think when exactly a skill is used because of animation lock.... i think that makes it more interesting. dragoon main since 5.0 and i miss dragon sight and spineshatter.
and no i do not mind gap closers doing dmg