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Originally Posted by Vithe  DRG = Dragoon right?
I was curious if Dragoons are a good class or not. I have read things online about them not being able to find groups etc... They kinda sound like Paladins back in the day in EQ1.
Dragoons seem cool to me with their pets and Jump, etc.. How do you like yours? |
Dragoon has had this stigma around it that started a long time ago. They weren't very popular back when I played my Elvaan Paladin but that was 3 years ago. I enjoy mine a lot actually. I almost have Penta Thrust which is a 5 hit weaponskill. They have recently gained a bit more popularity though as they have had a few weaponskills changed and received a decent merit ability. The 2hand change improved them, along with every other 2hand class, quite a bit. 1 dex = 1 accuracy now for anyone wielding a 2hander.
Vinen can comment more on the endgame side of the job, but from what I read they aren't that popular in raid stuff because they lack a strong weaponskill, unlike Samurai or Dark Knight.
As for exping, I find the job to be a lot of fun. I recently found out you can dismiss your wyvern when it's at 100% health. This is particularly useful for when you are exping on goblins part of the time or on something else that would aoe kill your pet. You can then call it back out when you pull something that doesn't aoe as much. Call Wyvern used to be a 2hr ability, and when it died, you would have to wait until it cooled down to call it out again. It's now a 20 minute ability so if you happen to lose your wyvern, it's out again fairly quickly.
Jump's are great for damage / TP Gain and high jump actually sheds some hate. I haven't gotten super jump quite yet, but it sheds 99% hate from what I've read.
One of the reasons I picked DRG is that they can solo pretty well later on, for questing or whatever you want to do. Sub a mage, like WHM or RDM and when you cast a spell and your health is low, your wyvern will use a healing breath on you, rather than an offensive breath when you sub certain other subjobs. So you can cast like dia when your health is below 33% I believe and it will heal you. I haven't tested it out personally yet, part of the reason I've been leveling up WHM.
I don't know what the seek time is like on them though, I'm currently partying with 3 others and we have been 4 man xping. We xp on stuff closer to our level than a 6man party would and with the change to signet we are still getting around 200 base xp per kill. PLD, RDM, DRG, SAM.
Kind of a long response to what you asked, but in summary. I like it. :P
Oh and the entire concept of the Dragoon job is just cool to me. Wish our Wyvern looked a little meaner though!
edit: My elvaan actually has a 63 DRK and I enjoyed the job quite a bit. It was an extremely hard hitting job, but so far I think my DRG hit just as hard as my DRK did leveling up. We'll see what happens when I get higher level. Only 46 DRG at the moment.
