Dragoons: A Rotation Reborn

[rickyguo]

Oh I do get an extra usage of SSD when shes doin the second jump before the 2nd Thermionic, thats usually when we push the phase (skippin beak and next meteor)

and I'm saying that I get 2 SSDs before phase change as well. You don't get 1 more of either skill than me so I'm not actually losing dps by saving both jumps for 30 seconds, while you might be losing a bit of gcd time elusive jumping after a target and then running back.

[Decrith]

I'd like to come out and say how thankful I am to the people who made this thread and to the rest who continue to help newbies be better dragoons. I use to main WHM because back then my drg skills we're horrible, and after countless help from this thread, I'm about to clear T9 as the DRG I wanted to be (we wiped to 1% yesterday lmao), and hopefully our static will clear today. So again thank you everyone, I never would have dreamed to be clear coil as a DRG, but this made it possible. Happy 300 pages!

EDIT: WOOHOOO T9 DOWN!

[Daweism]

So I only average 330 to 340 DPS on turn 8 whilst grabbing homing missles and standing in the middle for brain jacked, is this a fair number or should I be doing more @ iLVL 97 with the Animus?

[pompey_dan]

So I only average 330 to 340 DPS on turn 8 whilst grabbing homing missles and standing in the middle for brain jacked, is this a fair number or should I be doing more @ iLVL 97 with the Animus?

That should be enough to get you through your first kill as long as everyone else in the group is around 300 dps and you maybe get the sch to dps some.
With similar gear but using the tidal wave spear instead of animus I think back was averaging 350-360 around our first kill but that was doing towers/left side mines and being 1st priority for ballistic missile.

You should probably decide with your raid leader to swap with the bard in the group if you have one or even smn maybe to do brainjack/homing missile so that you are always DPSing and not missing positionals whilst brainjacked etc.

[BlackThought]

Just wanted to give a page 300 shoutout to all the Dragoons that post in the thread helping everyone out with their questions. It warms my heart to see a Dragoon community that is so understanding and supportive of new players.

Thanks guys! You're all shiny and amazing and stuff.

Honestly, to all the dragoons:

[Itseotle]

Just wanted to give a page 300 shoutout to all the Dragoons that post in the thread helping everyone out with their questions. It warms my heart to see a Dragoon community that is so understanding and supportive of new players.

Thanks guys! You're all shiny and amazing and stuff.

A lot of people rag on DRGs as being the "lol melee" class that all the baddies flock to.. while I'm not here to argue for or against this statement, I do not see any other class which has a vault of information for there class such as we have for DRG.

[Maxin_Rudy]

in my modest opinion, you are only bad at DRG if you want, i tried playing WAR and couln't find any topic that had such deph on the gear distribution, caps, stats weight, rotation deph, etc as drg... so i don't get why DRG have so many baddies =(, makes me sad

[JetBrooks]

i don't get why DRG have so many baddies =(, makes me sad

- Not everyone reads these/any forums
- Not everyone cares to play to their full potential
- Not everyone is capable, whether it be mentally of physically, of performing at the game's full potential

Try to play regularly with people who don't make you want to pull your hair out. Be patient/helpful/explanatory in Duty Finder. Don't worry about people who ultimately do not affect you. Pretty much everything in the game is instanced, so who cares? You think F1 drivers worry about people who can't parallel park? Doubt it.

[Jasiwel]

So my fellow Dragoons, I have a bit of a concern now that I've begun digging into the Turning Coils of Bahamut. While I've known for a while how many people would rather see BRDs on their team than DRGs, it irks me more so now that I've experienced it firsthand. I just had my first playthrough of Turn 2 and it was me, two Pallies, two healers and 3 BLMs. Some of you might already guess my concern. The BLMs were already pessimistic from the beginning, though the healers were fine. When we reached the last boss, we weren't able to kill it off (even though I used LB3 w/Blood4Blood and debuffs) and it was due to the BLMs running out of mana. I'm a DRG, not a BLM, so I wasn't able to restore their mana. You can figure out the rest. How do you guys go through Coil? Do you just truck on through?

[PArcher]

When we reached the last boss, we weren't able to kill it off (even though I used LB3 w/Blood4Blood and debuffs) and it was due to the BLMs running out of mana. I'm a DRG, not a BLM, so I wasn't able to restore their mana. You can figure out the rest. How do you guys go through Coil? Do you just truck on through?

I'm really hoping you mean the Heals and not the BLMs...

If you do mean BLM...wow. I though I've seen the worst that job has to offer...

As a side-note, I've cleared T2 with no BRD, 2 heals before (think once it was 2 SCH no BRD and I was one of the SCH O.o). Its all about mana management for the heals, even with a BRD.

Also, they're just as much at "fault" for not being a BRD as you were, which is to say none if it was DFed. DRG have the better LB and do more damage than BLM on single-targets (assuming similar gear; BLM overgearing the DRG will do more damage), so if anything, its more on them...