FFXIV 5.0 DRAGOON IMPRESSIONS - This Feels AMAZING!!

[@iBluairJgR]

After leveling the dragoon, It's gona be HARD to leavel any of the weaker jobs. I still need to level BRD, RDM & DNC and its gona be rough. I'm looking forward to BLM though. I'm ready to cook the universe with my fire. Bring on the buff bat and bring every job to the level of fun and power that the Dragoon has. I'LL ACCEPT NOTHING LESS! ►Leveling Discussion kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZKqdI2trNeSf5Y ►DPS Tips kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHWqe4yBm8lrq9U ►Tanking Tips kzbin.info/www/bejne/raWcf3mZfZdqsM0 ►Monk Impressions kzbin.info/www/bejne/bqXQqmyOqquHqbc ►Summoner Impressions kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHbcZJiNaq1pnLc ►Machinist Impressions kzbin.info/www/bejne/onO2iIZjesursK8

[@jphourcheu]

iBluairJgR I say you will enjoy BLM. I leveled mine to 80. Mech wise, it doesn’t change much. It feels good to run 80 dungeons as BLM.

[@jtg5928]

This is how i felt when i leveled my drg. It's like i lost my motivation on leveling other dps jobs lol

[@crosssquirrel4293]

What about healers! :) i want to hear your impressions on the healing class. Sorry newbie follower here :)

[@billyherrington659]

I think you'd enjoy RDM. It's pretty fun and burst heavy and is able to dish out some nice damage at the end of combo's

[@brentsta]

DNC is so fun you will barely notice you only really do great damage every minute or so

[@trapgod3193]

Can we agree that that backflip at 1:28 was clean af lmao love ur vids my dood

[@iBluairJgR]

I KNOW RIGHT?!?!?!? This guy is so cool! Wait. . .

[@trapgod3193]

@@iBluairJgR wait a minute.. arent you... nahhh i mistaken you may bad

[@YYorle]

I had something similar in HW on Bismarck EX, saving the day by staying on his back until the last microsecond, killing the weak point and flipping back gracefully like the bad motherf****r that I was. x'D

[@trapgod3193]

@@YYorle NICEUUU. I need to be like you and that guy in the video. Complete badasses

[@SlizenDize]

My memory from playing a dragoon is that you jump back to dodge an attack and then two seconds after you still get hit because the game still thinks you are in your initial spot until the animation is done. Is this something they have changed?

[@Konpekikaminari]

as a former DRG main, I absolutely love having a basically infinite combo, and I gotta say high jump is a life changer, normal jumps feel so... _slow_ now also can I have a little shoutout to the real mvp of the DRG kit- Full thrust and it's whooping 530 potency

[@themerovingian4252]

The base DRG is simplistic but it's all about lining up buffs and when to enter Life of the Dragon that separates the casuals from the pros.

[@Just_Another_Muffin]

This was my thought too. Yeah in dungeons DRG is pretty simple but it's when you are raiding the complexity really comes in.

[@cmdrnightfang4411]

Omg i thought i was the only one who thought this drg brothers unite

[@gaigeiris9632]

managing to land a lance charged, disembowled, dragon sighted, battle littanied, critical direct hit star diver made my soul physically leave my body

[@danieljohansson9419]

Knowing to delay nastrond phase etc, and not to mention all the double weaves makes this one of the more ping reliant jobs :)

[@AnimeSquirrel]

All the stuff said above me I'd what I've been working to master. Getting buffs out correctly and using life of the dragon at the optimal times is were I'm still wonky. But I'm improving.

[@Iautocorrect]

Only one reason I play DRG: the sound effect of Chaos Thrust lol. It's so satisfying.

[@iBluairJgR]

I LOVE THAT SOUND TOO!!!

[@rayoza2607]

Wait- can anyone type out what it sounds like?

[@rryyddeerr]

Same for me, but with blood of the dragon

[@Fishingishard]

Theres a benefit to easier jobs; you can focus more on encounter mechanics. It's why I also really like RDM. RDM is easy to master but it's really fun to play and also flows really smoothly. It's very intuitive and feels good. Feel the same way about DRG.

[@iBluairJgR]

Good point. It's definitely easier to deal with hard content if the job you're playing isn't too complex.

[@Fishingishard]

@@iBluairJgR plus in the case of RDM and DRG you look freaking amazing doing it. Style 10/10 points

[@ChurroWaffles]

As somebody who gets distracted easily jobs like RDM are more in line with my playstyle. It fees slow for other people but I like how its a simple job that can still have utility in fights. DRG which I am now leveling also feels simple enough but I find myself staring at when the oGCDs come off cooldown that I hardly focus on the fight itself. I’d have to know mechanics by heart to even take a DRG on certain encounters.

[@Seth_Kay]

Just a quick tip, Rob: you don't actually need to hit your positionals on the 4th _and_ 5th attacks to be allowed to use Raiden Thrust. Despite what the tooltip says, the only requirement is to do the 5th hit with the right positional, and you'll trigger the Raiden opener. Of course, it's always better DPS-wise to hit both attacks correctly for that nice potency increase, but if it's too hairy / impossible to do that, blow the 4th attack and focus on doing the 5th correctly. The opposite is _not_ true: hitting the 4th correctly and messing up the 5th will not get you Raiden Thrust. Other than that, I'll argue that DRG has more complexity that it lets on, but it is true that it's very straightforward to play. Optimizing fights with it is super fun tho, using all those Jumps to never lose uptime is really cool. As always, excellent video !

[@iBluairJgR]

Oh nice. Thanks for the tip about Raiden Thrust. Regarding the complexity, there's definitely room for mastery. I know I've still got to work on lining up my buffs better to get the most out of -Blood for blood- Lance Charge.

[@RiketheDangerleo]

Actually despite what a lot of people say, the tooltip is correct, it's just packed with so many words if you dont read it carefully you can easily misunderstand it.

[@HatsukaRaigeki]

One correction, You just need to land the last Fang&Claw or Wheeling Thrust correctly to gain Raiden Thrust. Don't need to hit both at the correct positions. However ofc its best to hit both but at times when you can't hit the first one you can always try hit just the last one to get raiden thrust.

[@dianwei32]

It hurt my soul when the Dancer immediately moved outside of Dragon Sight range at 3:30. You're a ranged DPS with no cast times, get your butt over there and take the godsdamned free damage boost.

[@iBluairJgR]

I know right? For the longest time, I would only give the buff to tanks since they're always very close.

[@kizurose6037]

OMG 🤣 that made my day🤣 besides im a Main drg 🤣👍

[@Spearman9]

Loved the video, but there is actually a lot more to DRG than you see on the surface. It's probably one of the easiest DPS in the game to pick up and understand but mastering it comes down to VERY tight execution of skills and raid buff optimizing. It's what every job should be IMO, easy to learn, hard to master.

[@Seth_Kay]

I have to agree on that. Although I will admit that the class itself is certainly easier to play than others, it all boils down to utilizing and exploiting all of your kit at the right moment to get the maximum out of it. You CAN be a competent Dragoon by doing the fight normally, but optimizing everything in your arsenal around the fight and/or your team is where it's at. I know this can be said for just about every class and every encounter, but it feels a lot more prevalent on DRG, if only because your Jumps have to be used efficently.

[@MrVav741]

exactly what DRG is. Master a DRG is not that easy though it's easy to play

[@Gemini_Godhand]

Stop. You're making me want to Dragoon again. The rotation is stable I can see it in my sleep!

[@iBluairJgR]

LOL. Sometimes I can hear the dragoon sound effects in my head when I'm not playing the game. #NeverForget.

[@tenjenk]

@@iBluairJgR before i came to FF, I was a WoW Rogue raider for 11 years before i left. My fingers still remember the rotation buttons, dagger SFX still sounds pleasing and my mind often reverts to a WoW gameplay mindset when im tired even though im playing an entirely different mmo. I feel my finger twitch to press V when i get in trouble in FF or GW2 because that was my keybind for vanish as a rogue. Hopefully my lancer finally breaks that ancient mental habit.

[@uyastorm]

It's worth mentioning that you only need to hit the last directional in your combo to unlock raiden thrust not the 4th and 5th.

[@iBluairJgR]

This. I'm stupid and I miss understood the tooltip.

[@uyastorm]

You aren't stupid the tooltip is just translated poorly. It took me far too long to realise that it only took the last hit and im maining goon the expansion.

[@themerovingian4252]

@@uyastorm They patched it. It was both at launch.

[@thewaywardgrape3838]

I would say you missed out on a fundamental part of the Dragoon - mobility/animation lock. You can use jumps to really reduce excess movement and uptime/downtime on targets.

[@rolandmelles4484]

Another amazing video! Never stop them, they're so well made. Best ffxiv content for sure.

[@iBluairJgR]

Cheers

[@zomgpeoplestolemname]

After lvling all the melee my tier list for enjoyable to play would be DRG>MNK>NIN>SAM I really like the raiden thrust mechanic and God damn the most satisfying thing in the game is life surging a coerthan on trash.

[@iBluairJgR]

Oh man, Life Surge on Coerthan does feel great. That skill has a fantastic animation too.

[@YuukiArt-94]

I fuggin agree! Also idk if you do this but take some intentional hits and life surge/blood bath Coerthan thrust and HOLY FUCK the heals... Granted you need ALOT of enemies in one line BUT when you get that right, it feels GREAT

[@justinhurowitz70]

The sound of a dozen crits going off at once is pure joy.

[@pjw1993]

Dragoon for me has always been one of those jobs that is dull to level, but once you get close to cap it really clicks into place. The way Raiden Thrust creates an infinitely looping combo feels amazing, and tearing through dungeons at 80 has been a blast.

[@iBluairJgR]

Agreed. The way you summed up Raiden Thrust is perfect.

[@theexiledones1]

It actually becomes a lot more complicated when put into practical use in end game contents, given the nature of the infinite combo meaning it's almost imperative that you hit every single positional. Stardiver also becomes the 4th animation lock you have and when you have to line up with your own buffs, sometimes it's extremely difficult to time it right if you have to do mechanics.

[@rgiamei]

As others have said it’s all about lining up life and your full kit of self/party buffs. But you are right in that the mechanics of dragoon at their core are very straight forward. I also love that AoE rotation is a 3 part combo, along with geirskogul/nastrondt/stardiver/dragonfire dive all being AoE makes clearing trash in dungeons feel super good.

[@iBluairJgR]

Bruh, trash pulls in dungeons get OBLITERATED so fast when DRG has all its buffs ready. It's so fun.

[@Jauwly]

Lol i was just thinking "Man i hope Blueair has uploaded a dragoon video" and lo and behold, i visit youtube to check and there it is, awesome.

[@iBluairJgR]

I read your mind and made this video for you ;p

[@maomekat2369]

It's as I like to call it blujgrrr (pronounced in my head as Blu jigarrr)

[@Riakon]

how come you sometimes do the star rating system for a job and not other times?

[@CannibalKittens]

They're on the overview videos i believe, this is an impressions video.

[@iBluairJgR]

On my impressions videos, I like to talk briefly about the things that stand out to me about a job then for Overviews, I go in and break down all the mechanics (and give the star ratings).

[@grimmjow13]

iBluairJgR Can’t wait for the overview video just to see the badass intro you’ll make ;) !

[@AnimeSquirrel]

Quick note on something I noticed. You only need to correctly land part 5 of the combo to upgrade to raiden thrust. So if you miss part 4 from it's not a combo breaker. But the potency loss is still not good obviously.

[@D01287410]

Dragoon skyrocketing up the dps charts from 4.0 to now is nice to see. I think they are in a great place right now. Also I think the complex components of the class comes from managing your buffs and using them properly. Let's get some Explosions going with BLM next!

[@iBluairJgR]

BLM is super tempting for me to do next. It seems very interesting.

[@maomekat2369]

Guh away, Bard /huntard is next clearly

[@maomekat2369]

@@iBluairJgR temptation is for weaksauce

[@YuukiArt-94]

Also how you likin all them crits? :D 1 more thing, you'll get Raiden Thrust as long as you hit the 5 attack in the combo in the right position. You dont need to hit the 4th in the right spot. They patched that it in 5.01 I believe

[@iBluairJgR]

The crits are VERY juicy. Battle Litany is a really fun skill. Dragoon is such a monster.

[@YuukiArt-94]

@@iBluairJgR yes it is. And its the reason its my favorite

[@YYorle]

I was wondering why I thought I had missed my forth and still got it after my fifth! I thought it might have been lag or something, but they patched it to only need the 5th positional right? Well, 5 years of playing this game has made me always try to get positionals anyway, as long as you stay in the 'ass-corner' (the very border of the gap in the targeting circle) just taking one step left or right gets you in proper positions.

[@Gharon]

It worked like this from the start even in Early Access. I also thought i had to hit both the 4th and 5th positional correctly for it to trigger and was confused it still worked the first few times i noticed that i definitely missed the 4th beforehand. "Grants Raiden Thrust Ready if Fang and Claw is executed following Wheeling Thrust─or vice versa─while adhering to direction requirements." - I suppose it's just the wording of the skill description that's slightly misleading as you could easily interpret it both ways. In my opinion it sounds "more" like you need to hit both in succession but i for one am glad it's just the last one, more leeway with True North. :P

[@mordeshkaiser]

Been a DRG main since the very beginning and never tire of it, everything is just so stylish and fun!

[@cmdrnightfang4411]

Me being a dragoon main if i would like to see anything changed on the class is either allow blood/life of the dragon increase dragon fire dive's dmg or reduce the cooldown to a minute and make the aoe have diminishing returns cause i feel like its been left behind as a skill and forgotten about

[@iBluairJgR]

I get what you mean. If anything, I wish DFD had a cooldown that lined up better with -Blood for blood- Lance Charge (90s).

[@ZerkerZero]

90% of all former NIN mains agree with this video lol

[@iBluairJgR]

The NIN struggle is real.

[@ZerkerZero]

@@iBluairJgR feelsbadman

[@zomgpeoplestolemname]

As someone who mained NIN for my melee dps from HW up till SHB launch I can now happily say my melee main is DRG for the forseeable future lol

[@Zoeila]

@@zomgpeoplestolemname if you left nin at the first sign of adversity you arent a true nin main

[@Kekkai_]

I still play Nin because I still believe in the dream within the dream.

[@roxas24724]

That's interesting. I actually dropped samurai for dragoon because i felt samurai was way too simplistic and easy to play compared to dragoon

[@fernamagno]

As a main dragoon, I have to say that you're wrong about the deep knowleadge about the job. It's Not just only the surface.When you begin to do highend, you start to feel even more complexity on the job. You dont ever gonna use the buffs as you usually do, you now will have to time it better with your own skills or with your party composition uptime aswell, never right after a full/chaos thrust, for example, or you will wait even more for those big dps CDs so you can get better damage output in "Stardiver" the lvl80 skill. Some stuff like that and positioning on the bosses to keep the uptime high, make the job always enjoyable. Of course, not in dungeons, that's not the farthest where the job can get, but the Savage content is actually where you can really enjoy and feel cool with the job. This happen with every single job in the game aswell, where you see a healer doing 5k dps and this player thinks that is doing it good, but a Savage content's player look up to make 8k dps as a WHM for example. My point is, that the complexity of the job actually never end scaling up, as better you as player become! Either way, I have to say, that with each expansion I feel that the dragoon is a little bit easier each time, so that also makes me a little unconfortable with it x'D But see the Monk, for example, when they had the "Doble Tackle" wich gives that extra Graised Lighining, the hole rotation changed and it was REALLY hard to even comprehend the thing, but now is waaaaaay simple that those final moments of Stormblood were. So I'm still enjoying dragoon, cuz with this last changes, it still feels amazing

[@Nobodycaresfl]

DRG is fun as heck. More peeps should be out there doing the Driggle wiggle hoppy poppy!

[@EDX2308]

I'm really glad you did DRG. I found DRG interesting... I levelled my character to 80 and found from 70 that SE removed/changed a lot of things for the class. It's simpler to use at first but as you level up higher DRG becomes more sophisticated in a good way. I just found that you gotta save Blood of the Dragon so your gauge doesn't run out to crank Nastrond. A little bit of directional attacks but overall DRG is fun. The AOE combo with Doom Spike> Sonic Thrust>Coerthan Torment replenishes the rage gauge fast!

[@iBluairJgR]

The AoE rotation is so much fun with DRG!

[@NotSeyren]

Loved this video, looking foward for your Bard one

[@iBluairJgR]

Cheers! I'll get there eventually ;p

[@Gharon]

Dragoon has been my main since late ARR, i really liked it in Stormblood but now in Shadowbringers i absolutely love it. Yeah our rotation is still pretty rigid and "boring" to some but the new toys and QoL changes we got are amazing. I especially love the 30 sconds on Blood/Life of the Dragon because it opens up at least some leeway on when to use them for better burst windows. Now if only they could tweak Dragon Sight to be slightly less bothersome to use. I understand Dragoon might look simplistic on first glance but to be optimal there's a lot more to it than meets the eye in a raid encounter. Dungeons and easy content sure, go ham and look sexy, but if you want to get the most out of the class there's quite a lot to consider.

[@EmeraldDragoon]

Woot. Finally my main!

[@TopBread]

you only need to land the postional of the final Fang and Claw or Wheeling Thrust, not both. unless i have been accidentally hitting the first positional and not realising it really surprised that nobody notices that. naturally you should be going for the positional anyway but im just saying

[@iBluairJgR]

You're correct, you only need to land the final positional to get raiden. I misunderstood the tooltip.

[@TopBread]

so did I at first. I think everyone did. It needs to be more clear in the explanation.

[@jroberts2nd]

Dammit I had just settled into SHB endgame as a SAM and now this makes me want to main DRG again!

[@iBluairJgR]

The dragon song is calling you ;p

[@solaryon8711]

They massively improved the rotations this expansion by adding the damage buff to the main combos. In Stormblood the buff had to be maintained separately and demanded more multi-tasking. In stormblood it felt like 10 times the work for less personal dps than many other classes. This expansion the concentration required is a lot better, but the personal DPS is actually quite high on FF logs for a DPS with additional raid utility.

[@iBluairJgR]

Word. Heavy Thrust and all the abilities like it have been removed and it feels much better because of it.

[@HeavyMetalLink05]

I'll always be a Monk main but I started leveling DRG because my buddies gonna join the game soon and I wanted to be able to help him. Its a ton of fun and Im glad he decided to play it because I probably wouldn't have otherwise lol

[@ShyndrythsConcepts]

So I love the Dragoon, when they made one of the jumps into high jump and sped things up it made the job feel even better, that being said I feel they could add more sustain to it, say for instance when Summoner summons Phoenix they get "ever lasting flight" which is a regen which the summoner badly needed as its base heal skill is useless, I feel the Dragoon could have something similar when you enter Life of the dragon or Blood of the dragon

[@Hydus]

if you miss every single positional you lose like 5% dps...while its still a dps loss...its not that important if it means you clip a gcd edit : yes animations are cool and that's why you should try and hit positionals...like not even kidding its amazing edit 2: the "mastering" of the class hangs in the fact that its based on a fight to fight basis. or rather "how can i put the most amount of gcd's into my "blood for blood" and/or "dragon sight" basic...yes but so amazingly satisfying when you pull it off perfectly

[@VerfluchtKrieger]

My main job DRAGOON! I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOOOOOOOOOOVE this job! It's so satisfying to line everything up and get those moments of monstrous burst damage and then being able to back flip out of mechanics like it's no big deal? *swooning intensifies* Everything you dropped in this video is true with a minor discrepancy like many others have stated about complexity regarding the line up of the job's major DMG CD's during raid encounters versus 4-man content, but no mention of one of the reasons everyone else loves Dragoon, Battle Litany? Or even Dragon Sight despite being awkward to use without macros. That will make that BLM/SAM/MNK come down from their lofty pure DPS perch and ask you nicely for a buff. I can't overstate how much I love and adore playing this job!

[@iBluairJgR]

Ehh Dragonsight is what it is. All targeted abilities in the game that provide buffs function better if you make a macro for it so it wasn't something that stood out to me.

[@pmcfearson9453]

How do you get the camera to off center in the first minute?

[@cendyrivera2893]

Can anyone tell me how to get the left eye to trigger on my party members, I am unable to get the buff for them everytime I activate it. Please help

[@GEMINIVice1]

Probably already figured out....but you highlight desired party member, either thru the party list or placing cursor over them, and activate the buff.

[@aroundtheconsole5409]

Great impressions video my man. As a DRG main, I couldn't agree more. It does seem simplistic after awhile but there is a distinction between the PRO's and NOOBs that play it. You just feel like such a badass playing as it, as I am sure you experienced on your way to level 80. How does Star Diver feel??? :)

[@iBluairJgR]

Stardiver is SOOOOO GOOOODD!!!! The AoE damage dragoon pumps out is nuts.

[@Dahras1]

I gotta say, I love these videos. I'm in the middle of leveling up a couple of alts and this is really helping me decide which to focus on. I actually started leveling the Dragoon recently, and I've got to say, the animations it has are really weighty. Unfortunately, of all the classes I've tried out, Dragoon gives you the least to do pre-30. I've literally got like 3 buttons and I'm almost at that point.

[@iBluairJgR]

Glad they're enjoyable for ya! Regarding the low level dragoon, it feels like someone screwed up when they were adjusting skills because dragoon is HORRIBLE before level 26. Full thrust should probably get unlocked at level 10 so at the very least, you can do a full combo in the low levels. Then at level 18, you unlock Disembowel for a damage buff and you can start managing the timings.

[@Dahras1]

@@iBluairJgR Yeah, it really does feel like a screw up. You actually only get 6 class skills before level 30, 1 of which is a ranged pull you never use and 1 of which is an ogcd with a 1 minute cooldown, which is crazy. The only other class with that few pre-30 skills is Monk, but all of Monk's pre-30 skills are weaponskills.

[@XxIWantChickenxX]

I'd definitely disagree with DRG having a low skill ceiling or floor like...

[@YuukiArt-94]

#facts

[@maomekat2369]

Oh you mean hugging the floor

[@Vanhhline]

i def feel its low floor, high ceiling for sure. easy to get into but has a breath of depth that requires mastery in order to preform competitively is complicated environments.

[@Gwynbleidd_117]

So did they change it in 5.1? Bc as it is now(just started leveling my DRG from 70 to 80) with Raiden thrust you don’t have to hit the directionals for both the 4th and 5th hits, you only have to hit it on the last and Raiden procs.

[@blueish5]

Dragoon is a class I enjoy thematically and visually, but god do I not enjoy playing it because of how you have to lineup with your LotD. Monk is much more fun to me in that regard, since you need to use both your buffs together, and possibly line them up with your other raid CDs, but is less heavy on the mind than having 2 strong CDs with 2 different timers.

[@gadomoya]

I just got 80 on my MNK this very second and now I want another job. How could you do this to me?

[@iBluairJgR]

Rofl. The struggle is real.

[@maomekat2369]

You have a solid best but hard melee dps. Now go Bard or BLM or a tank dps like dek or warr or gnb or..pally best dpa & fun spell & melle phase. Uwuuu

[@lightdragoon88]

I was a Dragoon main from ARR to Stormblood, but dropped it for Machinist in Shandowbringer. Don't get me wrong the damage is great, but I feel it only because it has such high damage that it so popular right now. If it get nerf, it going to be what Ninja is right now: forgettable. My biggest issue for this expansion for Dragoon is that while the numbers are high, I don't FEEL like I'm in those moments of absolute power. For Example Summoner have the Bahamunt/Phoenix phase. Machinst have Queen phase, Dark Knight has Shadow phase. A lot of Jobs have their level 80 move give them moments to dish out loads of damage. For Dragoon: After doing all those jumps and dives and making sure your Blood doesn't empty (a problem Monk had) all we get is....1 jump. Then we have to do all those jumps and dives again to do that 1 jump again. Basically it has the same problem that I had with Dragoon in Stormblood: Life of the Dragon doesn't FEEL like I have powered up.

[@iBluairJgR]

That's a very good point. I figure the dragoon leans more on the "always active" playstyle.

[@HyouVizer]

Haven't played DRG since LV50 was cap. But goddamn this vid makes me wanna try it again 😄

[@iBluairJgR]

OH!!! It's totally worth getting back into. DRG is so sexy.

[@kizurose6037]

You should have played it futher because there is only slowly the point were its getting really really fun to play 🤣

[@BorgWolf359]

I love your videos! I am torn between the Dark Knight or Dragoon to level up next! I have finished leveling my BM to 80 so I want something different! Eventually all classes/jobs will be 80!

[@iBluairJgR]

Nice, glad you're enjoying m8! Between DRK and DRG, that's a really tough choice lol. They're both very cool.

[@StriderZessei]

Great stuff, as always. May I ask what glamours you were using?

[@iBluairJgR]

Thanks m8. The chest piece is the level 70 poetics armor (forgot the name but you can buy it in Rhalgr's reach). The Helmet, Gloves and Boots are the i90 dragoon artifact armor.

[@weertangel7231]

Its my main and its a great class, but after a while u do wanna try something else, still, it looks good and u feel like a god, even if its not that deep. getting positioning right is not always easy wich keeps u busy most of the time but i don't mind.

[@kench4syth]

this work so diff from me, actually after playing a lot of job i just want to settle on one, lol and that's DRG

[@HuwLightfist]

My one and only complaint is that Disembowel's damage buff is a pain in the ass to refresh on aoe pulls. Instead of pressing heavy thrust (one button) you have to do two steps of the chaos thrust combo. I just want to have the buff applied and refreshed on Sonic Thrust as well.

[@iBluairJgR]

Yeah. It seems like the devs forgot to add the "extends duration of disembowel" to sonic thrust the way they did for EVERY OTHER job in the game lol.

[@HuwLightfist]

@@iBluairJgR Yeah. I don't especially mind having to do the CT combo when there's trash pulls with That One Extra Beefy Dude(tm) but it's super annoying in every other situation. I don't see it talked about much, so I'm assuming it's just something long-time DRG players get annoyed by.

[@Bakugan2833]

I leveled drg 80 for my 1st melee dps bc of the Eden chest piece :p

[@maomekat2369]

Lvl 80 Eden?? You just started playing in 5.0?

[@Bakugan2833]

@@maomekat2369 no I had it at 70 before shb

[@kizurose6037]

The chest piece 🤣 did you saw that eden weapon 🤩 i want it so badly but i hate titan T.T

[@ek9750]

i really like dragoon and i LOVE the new skills they got in shadowbringers theyre almost as satisfying as phoenix trance from summoner

[@iBluairJgR]

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) almost

[@mismismism]

You nailed my issue/love with Dragoon. My main DPS is BLM and I'm leveling MNK and DRG now jumping back and forth because MNK feels super complex because it's just really fast paced with positionals so when I want something simpler I level DRG which is fun for a bit but can start to feel stale once you get into the flow of the game again because it feels so simple compared to to MNK or BLM tbh. Love/hate job but glad they have DRG as simple melee, MNK as hard, and SAM is kinda in between.

[@Gilgamesh-cx6wx]

I'm a DRG main and the Best part for me is that it is so easy. You can brain dead easyly pull of your rotation and focus quicker on the mechanics of a savage fight (you dont have to know what mechanic will happen next, you can just react in the spot while one braincell takes care of the rotation and all the other take care of the mechanic) and when to use what skill in order to keep your uptime and so on and so forth.

[@iBluairJgR]

The "shut your brain off" style of DRG is very enjoyable lol.

[@leandrof.m6112]

Could u, pls, make a video about controls? How u customized yours like this and why. I'm Always changing my controls on keyboard and mouse but never satisfied. ;(

[@iBluairJgR]

I don't know if I'll ever make a full video about my control setup but I can answer the question for ya. I play with my mouse in my left hand so I have most of my keybinds centered around the number pad. Left, Right, Up & Down arrows are where I put my main actions and other actions get placed on the num pad where there's space. The secret sauce to making good keybinds is finding buttons that are located close to where you hands and fingers naturally rest. For a standard WASD setup, I would say you can bind things to Q,E,R,T, F & G in addition to the normal 1 - 0 binds. Though, I'd be careful about binding too many commonly used actions on numbers farther than 6 because you have to lift your hand up to press those.

[@NorggroN]

I have a hard time with dragoons positionals, just cant wrap my head around the back side side back, so used to sam at this point.

[@maomekat2369]

What so you mean? Can you explain a little more

[@erasablefallen7223]

Try using true north more. I think that negates the requirements for positional and lets you nail them anyways

[@danielcaparros]

If I'm starting a meele dps with requirement position now, which is easier to learn (I mean the positioning), monk or dragoon?

[@YuukiArt-94]

Dragoon is easier to start. Though with enough practice Monk can be learned relatively quickly.

[@damienman25]

Ive always liked DRG as a concept in this game but when its all said and done its the dps i enjoy playing the least because it feels so simple in the sense thst i dont have to try as hard to reach max efficiency.

[@iBluairJgR]

Yah, that's the same thing that I dislike about it too. I'll always enjoy playing DRG but it'll never be my main because its "too easy".

[@wez201102]

Don't u get Raiden Thrust only by hitting the positional on the 5th hit? i mean it's still important to get both positionals correct every time. but i main DRG and when ShB dropped i'm loving all the changes. That and i'm still a relatively new player (just started in March this year) so i wasn't until early may that i was able to understand and execute the positionals correctly (i still miss a few here and there when i'm brain dead in expert roulette). In Stormblood there was a lot of nuance in the Geirskol and Life of the Dragon and while there's still an element of that it's WAAAAYYYY easier to manage in ShB.

[@iBluairJgR]

Yeah you're right about Raiden Thrust. I've been miss reading the tooltip this whole time.

[@wez201102]

@@iBluairJgR i thought the same too at first because a lot of ppl who went to the Media tour were saying the same thing. idk if they changed it or if everyone was misreading it cause it mentions both "Fang and Claw" and "Wheeling Thrust" but depending on which ever combo you're doing you 5th hit will be one or the other.

[@Razzlym-riel7]

How does the dragoon rank in terms of utility? reference to group content. I recall seeing somewhere pre-shadowbringers that it had a passive crit increase to all party/raid members. Is that still a thing? or is it just a bare bones dps dealer like what ive heard the samurai and black mage to be?

[@iBluairJgR]

Dragoon has a damage buff that it can give to a single party member and a raid crit buff on a 180s cooldown. It's utility is very good.

[@AeionEX]

Great vid I know my main mele dps now

[@maomekat2369]

Lulz nub go samurair or Bard for mellee DPS ehuehe

[@AeionEX]

@@maomekat2369 ha bard your funny what's a bard you mean ranger right ? 😂

[@Multifridgeman]

DRG looks super fun, but they do way too much damage for the utility they also bring. I don't know what they were thinking with the 76 trait giving them massive potency increases across the board, while at the same time leaving gust slash at 250 for SHB launch.

[@iBluairJgR]

Ehhhhh, there's so much weakness in the other jobs, they should buff that first before nerfs.

[@YamiRiku]

I haven't touched drg since ARR and even then it was a really simple job I'm glad SE kept it that way, seems like a great job to attract newer players

[@iBluairJgR]

Agreed. It's really well made-though its a little bit boring before level 26 lol.

[@ASX373]

what about PVPwise ? is he good or not?

[@iBluairJgR]

DRG has good burst and mobility in PvP.

[@SaijanZeo]

Just curious, what dragoon gear set is that???

[@iBluairJgR]

Helm, gloves & boots are level 90 artifact armor & the chest piece is from Rhalgr's Reach.

[@keonj]

BRD Next? (;

[@azurearcade342]

Been leveling NIN lately. I got it to 50 and the mudra lag drives me nuts. Especially since my connection is really solid. I'm trying to figure out which melee job to main and I can't choose. Any input would be appreciated. I enjoy easy to pick up, but tough to master jobs and I dislike having a boat load of positionals to worry about.

[@maomekat2369]

My.man you're perfect perfeeect PURRRFECT job feommtoir description & from experience is samurai. Give try, beautiful dmge, resources, 1 positional & not simple or hard. Just mhhhh

[@maomekat2369]

And yes min really sadlyis horrible... 5.1 will fix it

[@mrwoweu]

Gotta full disagree that drg lacks complexity. Sure on its base level It’s easy to pick up, but it is far from easy to master, there was a lot missed to break down the drg, slight bit disappointed in this vid :C. Looking forward to the next video though!

[@UchihaDarkForce]

I have a friend who is a pro raider and he thinks Sam is simple and drg more of the complex melee jobs. I guess it's all based on personal opinion

[@iBluairJgR]

Yah, personal opinion is definitely a factor. Depending on how your brain works, I'm sure some jobs can feel easier than others.

[@fkkkkkenig]

"Sports car" Hmm. *stares at Miata* No wonder I'm a DRG main

[@TheMorrok]

Miatas are no slouch cars. They're like go-karts, peppy and maneuverable in great lengths. Total fun cars! I've been leveling MNK, but I am starting to find it stale. SAM is really fun and I enjoy it greatly, but somehow I always lose track of time on DRG it is so fun to play.

[@maomekat2369]

Woot woot finally Bard... Oh wait... ...

[@iBluairJgR]

Doh. I'll get there eventually lol.

[@viewtifulzfo]

I mostly play tanks in MMORPGs, but I figured I should level a DPS for this expansion. Dragoon was a good choice, it turns out - good damage, simple and static rotation, but enough interesting decisions to not make it totally braindead. ALSO DRAGON ARMOR IS THE COOLEST

[@iBluairJgR]

Hell yeah. The dragoon armor is so fancy. I love that it resembles a dragon more every expansion lol.

[@TheMdlukas]

Very good material as always!

[@iBluairJgR]

Thanks m8!

[@WWarnerBros]

Dragoons sexiness>Simplicity

[@rock4471]

Man I'll never get tired of Dragoon animations. At every expansion they get better and better and more flashy. Also I spend all my fricking money on fashion for them and I regret NOTHING...I think

[@iBluairJgR]

By 6.0, I bet they'll give Dragoon an animation that turns them into a dragoon.

[@rock4471]

@@iBluairJgR Fuck yeah

[@Jfree7791]

I like dragoon it’s really dope.

[@ShaunFVG]

Drug was my 2nd class to 50 in arr. Has always been simple fun lol

[@iBluairJgR]

I think it was my second or third too. Remember Impulse Drive?

[@ShaunFVG]

@@iBluairJgR yeah lol. It's still in pvp. Funny thing is most of drgs attacks in this and 11 can be used as bad sex puns lol

[@DrobotTech]

whats your dragon sight macro?

[@iBluairJgR]

For 4-man/ac "Dragonsight" /ac "Dragonsight" or For 8-man /ac "Dragonsight" /ac "Dragonsight"

[@justinhurowitz70]

Just make Sonic Thrust apply Disembowel and we’ll be all good. Current Dragoon is the most fun it’s ever been.

[@Dae-Dae97]

How have you been leveling your alts?

[@iBluairJgR]

Dungeon grinding, fates & roulettes. Mostly dungeons though.

[@Dae-Dae97]

@@iBluairJgR no HoH?

[@MoonFireDylan]

Can you do black mage =D

[@iBluairJgR]

Eventually ;o

[@fernamagno]

Hey! Little tip ^^ get a macro where you put both Wheeling thrust & Fang and claw in the same button, then you only will have to press that button when you need to use any of those 2. As far as you know wich one are you using, is a good way to save 1 button in 2 skills! (U won't have the usual macro thing problem with these, cuz they only turn on, one each time, so your macro will only execute the one possible, then the other, without ANY issue. Try it out!)

[@mrwoweu]

No. Never, ever, tie, gcd’s, to macros. This is basic. Macros will always delay your gcd’s.

[@fernamagno]

@@mrwoweu Yes, this usually happen with almost every GCD in the game BUT this 2 skills only turn on when they're usable. So you will never ever will have any problem. I've been using it since Heavensward and even when I went harder on raiding, reaching 95+ percentile, still using this tip. Just try it out then you tell me! ^^

[@DuskSky25]

only the fifth gcd positional mus be correct to unlock raiden thrust. also dragoon isnt that much simpler than other classes!

[@finalfantasymax7]

I knew ud enjoy it ^^ now time for the real thing black mage babeh!

[@iBluairJgR]

THE FIRE BALLS ARE REALLY TEMPTING!

[@finalfantasymax7]

@@iBluairJgR oh trust me once u deal them 80k ud feel like ur life is complete

[@YYorle]

Jup! You're right on the nail there with your thoughts on how there isn't a higher complexity to it, which is why I switched from DRG main in HW to SAM in SB. In HW the job was a bit more complex as your Geirskogul drained your Blood of the Dragon timer by 10s, but it also had a 10s CD (like Nastrond now). On top of that BotD itself had a 60s CD, so if you lost it from carelessly Geirskogul'ing, or Dragonlaz0r as I like to call it, it was quite punishing. The rotation on a DRG in HW was just a bit more... dynamic? These days the rotation is set in stone really. :)

[@maomekat2369]

Weaksauce

[@DJNenz]

Dragoon is sooooo good right now. Running raids, seeing high damage numbers and getting commends makes me feel great lol.

[@iBluairJgR]

As it should! Real talk: every job should be balanced like Dragoon.

[@padtohka317]

1:56 poor redmage got smashed

[@iBluairJgR]

I felt bad lol.

[@monrepos1001]

Dragoon 100% fashion;)

[@DeathsAlterEgo]

I dislike the melee DPS jobs in this game because I find them all boring. But, Dragoon is my favorite of the 4. It's static rotation is my issue. It's the same 11 buttons over and over again while weaving in jumps and buffs. Everything just lines up and it doesn't feel like much is there. But, great video nonetheless. Keep up the good work.

[@jordanf00]

1:45 You and the healer killed that RDM. Shame.

[@Golden910]

Nice video btw but I disagree. On my new character I now main Dragoon exclusively. With sam as my back up dps. I've come to notice that anyone can play drag but to master it's not as simple. There's a lot to press and to remember. It does get better with time but I would say compared to a samurai Dragoon is way more complex in the late stages. Samurai looks very simple in your face it's really not a lot to it it's just straight DPS there's no utility at all.

[@benpescod5350]

This was a little more disappointing than previous videos imo. No mention of the DoT or Disembowel uptime but plenty of mention of a lack of complexity. There was a mention of SAMs complexity with resource management, which DRG does have with BotD - although admittedly it has been watered down since 5.0, whereas previously this is where the complexity of job mastery came in. ALSO, there is so much enjoyment that comes from using skills that have been plucked from Nidhogg, and design choices influenced by the HW era. Every Nastrond, and every Stardiver is just. so. satisfying. and harks back to the good ol' Nidhogg days.

[@iBluairJgR]

Dragoon's DoT & Buff doesn't require any special management. You rotate between your two combos (full thrust & chaos) and your dots & buffs will never fall off. BotD literally can't fall off now unless your not using Fang & Wheeling. It's also not a resource that has to be managed like Kenki (use too much Shinten and you won't be able to Kaiten for Midare). Especially now that entering LotD puts you automatically at 30s, there's nothing to think about while playing DRG outside of the standards i.e. cooldown alignment and GCD clipping. p.s. the DRG animations are dope.

[@Golden910]

Although I disagreed with ur video I do hope that ninja gets fixed so u can update the other video with better news

[@GEMINIVice1]

1:28 ....hot damn son👍🏽👍🏽

[@iBluairJgR]

I impressed myself with that lol

[@Zayindjejfj]

What's so funny is that using the jump attacks incorrectly can get you killed and thus lead to the floor tank stereotype. But if done correctly then you look so awesome and it's fun.

[@zath863]

I know u say the complexity really isnt there but honestly even in ff14, the easiest job is still harder to master than the hardest class in WoW. WoE the classes dont have a ton of buttons and the difficulty lives more in the raid fights than mastering the class in general. Ff14 alot of the difficult is mastering your job than raid mechanics(even tho savage raids r very tough) so to me ff14 easier boss fights much harder job mastering. WoW way easier class mastery harder raid bosses.

[@MichaelBuur]

I'm triggered by the fact that your Blood of the Dragon bar is not perfectly aligned with your HP/MP bars ლಠ益ಠ)ლ

[@iBluairJgR]

It bothers me too LOL.