Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[Sleigh]

This is actually really interesting. If you take into account that the Piercing Debuff also increases your Bards DPS, the theoretical DPS a Dragoon can bring to a raid might actually be equal or even higher than a Monk. This is going to create huge competition between the 3 Melee DPS jobs. I like it a lot.

If DRG did indeed go up 5% DPS, and they translate to fights even better than before from a dummy (their biggest downfall T10-13 IMO compared to T1-9), I'd say a DRG will easily hands down beat MNK in any fight going by contribution. These changes just make them put out their rotation with almost nothing in their way other than being a melee with potential travel time, while MNK still has to deal with GL3 drops and such. MNK will still have the INT debuff + Mantra utility so it'll be brought just like before in most content.

DRG should now indeed be the highest DPS option of the 3 melee (contribution wise), on a dummy and in real fights, which makes up for their still lacking utility.

MNK MNK as your melee comp should still be more DPS, but it'd be an insignificant boost rather than a just completely superior comp. Plus now any break in the fight, any mechanic trapping MNK, could make DRG MNK beat MNK MNK ... this is looking promising.

If I had to bet on what this means for balance within FCoB ... MNK MNK, MNK DRG, and MNK NIN will be all completely viable. DRG NIN will be possibly top DPS comp (counting TA buff to raid) but you lose the precious INT debuff. DRG MNK will probably become progression main-stay for now if I had to guess.