Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[Jonnycbad]

PC is a platform, not a race. Can we stop humanizing machines, it's too soon.

On a serious note, yeah I map both RT+LT and LT+RT to the same palette because I don't want the order in which I press the shoulder keys to bring up palettes differentially, because during mechanics, I'll probably screw it up. Also I doubt many abilities would become onsolete given that 80% of our weapon skills are used in combos (really just Feint and Ring of Thorns are despensible), and oGCD will always be good.

[Dervy]

Regarding "Blood of the Dragon" http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs...26_703330.html

So not only can you consume the remaining time of Blood of the Dragon to blow it all on a powerful skill, but you can also extend it's duration and continue popping out 4th-tier combos Thrusts. This is going to be VERY interesting... So we'll need to figure out exactly when it's best to consume Blood of the Dragon for DPS increase.

I guess one place is before Phase Transitions/invulnerabilities. But what about a static single-target-never-ending-loop? Maybe it's Pop out x2 4-combo, then blow it all?

EDIT:

Additional Information:

竜尾大車輪 "Ryū bidai sharin" – Roughly translated as “Ryuo Giant Swing” or “Dragon Tail Swing”

竜牙竜爪 "Ryū kiba ryū tsume" – Roughly translated as “Ryukibaryutsume” or “Dragon Claw Dragon Fang”

These are the names of our Combos. I'm still doing a lot of reading and I'll keep updating this post with new information.

[Jollyy5]

Cool stuff.

If we are presented with the options of either extending the duration or consuming the buff for a powerful attack, I'm assuming you generally want to keep extending it, and then consume it to blow up the boss when it's about to become untargetable/immune, or as a finisher if you don't have a LB to use.

Of course it could be used on the last mob during dungeons, or to burst down adds.

A little bit like how Monks will be able to consume their GLs for a grand attack.

[Mibhas]

Additional Information:

竜尾大車輪 "Ryū bidai sharin" – Roughly translated as “Ryuo Giant Swing” or “Dragon Tail Swing”

竜牙竜爪 "Ryū kiba ryū tsume" – Roughly translated as “Ryukibaryutsume” or “Dragon Claw Dragon Fang”

These are the names of our Combos. I'm still doing a lot of reading and I'll keep updating this post with new information.

As a fluent Japanese speaker, I can assure you that those actually mean "Fuller Thrust" and "Chaoticer Thrust" respectively.

[SunnyHirose]

竜尾大車輪 "Ryū bidai sharin" – Roughly translated as “Ryuo Giant Swing” or “Dragon Tail Swing”

竜牙竜爪 "Ryū kiba ryū tsume" – Roughly translated as “Ryukibaryutsume” or “Dragon Claw Dragon Fang”

As someone who used to translate vidya... more likely to be read Ryuubi Daisharin and Ryuuga Ryuusou.

Ryuubi - dragontail
Daisharin - literally Great Wheel. Would have multiple definitions, but in regards to a polearm technique it brings to mind the image of someone spinning it ferociously. In XI Daisharin was the Japanese name for "Wheeling Thrust".

Ryuuga - dragonfang
Ryuusou - dragonclaw/talon (don't remember which this game prefers)

The official English names may be only tangentially related. I guess we'll have to see, though.

[pandabearcat]

If only we had some sort of simulator!

How are those damage formula numbers coming?

[Dervy]

If I'm perfectly honest with you, my hands have been way to full to do anything. I've not even had the opportunity to log in the past 2 weeks lmao. Hopefully next week I can restart some work.

[Jonnycbad]

I don't think they have showcased an all poserful skill. They showed one or two combo finishers and the blue circle buff. Perhaps the circle buff is our "all powerful skill", could be cool if it's a raid wide dmg buff or something, but I won't hold my breath. Also Blood of the dragon looked like it gave the drg a blue aura for its duration, kinda like war's enrage, but blue. If so, that's pretty cool.

[Dervy]

I can also see a situation where, if the Cooldown of "Blood of the Dragon" is within 10 seconds and you've just finished up one of your 4th tier combos, let's say "Dragon Tail Sweep", you can blow your "powerful attack" to consume the remaining time and Blood of the Dragoon should become available again just before you apply Chaos/Full thrust to continue looping with a 4th combo.

That, theoretically, is another way to maximise DPS.

[Jonnycbad]

Seems like at least one of the skills we're getting won't rely on blood of the dragon. In the live letter, the drg opens with dragon fire dive, impulse drive, a new buff skill, disembowel, then does blood of the dragon(granting him a blue aura) then chaos thrust, followed by another new attack.

So that one buff might not use blood of the dragon, the one where he raises his polearm up to his head, a blue orb appears on the tip, followed by a blue circle spreading overhead.