i'm doing the same: the issue is, the other melee in our group is a monk/ninja as well. there's a weekly lockout on coil gear, meaning only one drop between the both of us, and a weekly restriction on poetics gear; meaning i will not be able to gear up dragoon if i choose to gear up ninja for final coil. I'm probably going to circumvent this by having nin on an alt.

after 2.5 the above likely won't be an issue, but if Yoshi and co. are content to let Dragoon remain a gimp job for endgame progression, i would think more and more players would just abandon the job and simply just play nin/mnk full time.

I find the idea that the dev team are aware of how gimped Dragoons are and are content to allow them to remain this way maddening. What is the point in having a job that is simply just not viable for endgame progression?