[Dev] DRG Stuff

Pipe dreams-

Aggressive Jump (Trait): 15 second 15% ATK boost after any Jump for the Drg & Wyvern.

Wyvern Tactics (JA): Toggle between using breath attacks or Deadly Drive with an ATK mod based on Tp % in Offensive mode.

With Defensive wyvern: Remove breath is replaced with Rampart breath, granting a rampart type effect to the Dragoon. Potency based on wyvern TP. Healing breath is unaffected.

Hybrid wyvern gets the Deadly Drive + Rampart breath, but the ATK mod/Rampart potency is halved.

Astral Jump (JA): Shared timer with Super Jump. Same as Super Jump except if Wyvern is present when used, enemy is struck with a non-damaging blow that instantly halves enmity for everyone on the mobs Enmity list.

loldrg (Trait): Less damage than a War or Drk

Critical attack bonus and some native form of attack power or attack speed increase would be a good start.

We already have that trait.

The Astral Jump could be fixed into something else, like causing plague, virus, etc., since the current effect would be a little detrimental when actually used in critical moments.

Nice launching board for an idea though.

Since it halves enmity for everyone, it would basically have no affect on who currently is being attacked. However it would have the effect of un-capping everyones hate again. So if we ever got back to a point where fights lasted any amount of time it would keep hate from bouncing to mages for a while.

Edit:

I was playing with the idea of Amnesia on the mob but SE would never let it land on anything worthwhile.... this they MIGHT allow to happen.

Even if an amnesia effect did land, it wouldn't land for very long. Vermail Bhuj is case in point. It can barely land amnesia on Too Weak mobs, let alone anything Easy Prey or higher.

That's why a very strong plague would be 1000x better. Just look at delta thrust. I love that spell.

I mentioned plague and virus earlier

Yes I know. I was agreeing with you lol.

I totally agree... I think this one was my fav:

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drg sucks and so does Ophannus

You mean Radiant Breath? That would be quite awesome.

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Gildrein Community Rep		Dragoon Vision Experts with the lance who can take command of any battle with their wyverns, which can either deal heaping helpings of pain or relieve their party with a reinvigorating breath. We aim to make jumping a more dynamic aspect of dragoons' fighting style and to have wyverns evolve into more versatile allies with the ability to enfeeble enemies.
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If the bold and underlined were to ever happen, Radiant Breath and a darkness equivalent would be a welcome addition to the elemental breath line.

Radiant Breath: Deals damage + Slow + Silence.
Dark Breath: Deals damage + Paralyze + Plague

The only problem is the wyvern would only use Radiant or Dark if the mob has a weakness to either above element which could be remedied if the breaths got their own /pet JAs.

sigh

I know...

What I find ironic about that screenshot they use is he's using the empyrean Weapon skill which no self respecting Dragoon would use. You can tell the developers are out of touch with the job.

Well, specifically in my pipe dream I was thinking of adding something that was more in tune with the healing wyverns support capabilities. In this case, Rampart, to absorb magic dmg to supplement the Drgs choice of a mage subjob. Since the drg most likely already has access to phalanx/stoneskin.

Val, do you even need to still use a mage sub to heal? Is one really strong heal every minute not enough? If you're getting pounded on THAT much where you need more than a giant C4 every minute, you might be fighting the wrong content on drg, no?

Not really, no. The only things a DRG can't reasonably kill are monsters with lots of high damage AoEs, certain AoE status effects, and things that can drop you from max HP to dead in a few seconds.

Whats a DRG?

What you should do and what people want to do are two different things. There are better solo jobs, but that's not always fun. More of a want than a need.


Awww, you picked the 2/3 drg weapons not worth getting.

Yeah no, I get that, but what I'm saying is you should be able to solo reasonably on /sam still, no?

For most things probably, though TE wearing early could be annoying. Not so much vs casters though.