Level 100 Dragoon - First Impressions In Dawntrail 

Calm down Nidhogg

Yea def agree with this , why is Rise of the Dragon a more satisfying button to press as a 92 skill than the lvl 100 skill lol

yeah, i forgot to mention this. it's really frustrating and more apparent in dungeon pulls when you're trying to position for your line aoe's. Starcross range is not intuitive at all

Yes, with a 3ylm range it's like they made it to be double weaved with diver but diver is too long of an animation to do that so it just feels clunky

I was gonna comment the same thing, and I saw this. I agree that the range is abysmal for a Jump ability, if they gave it a Mirage Dive range and a beefier sound for it then I would love it. But the glaring issue is defiantly the range.

Yeah they need to change Starcross to at least 5y like they did to VPR's oGCDs.

not to disregard your feelings trust me I get you but jump was originally just that so it's really just back to what it was but faster now and the weird accidental drifting of mirage dive or overcapping mirage eyes I really don't miss and prefer just damage jump

that's how i am with SAM. it's the only job i can play without constant laser focus on my hotbar

I still need to try viper, I'm looking forward to it!

Mch and sam are my 2 main classes in this xpac. After playing mch a bit though I'm finding sam to be really underwhelming. Vip also feels outright weak but i haven't capped it yet.

Videos like this only go so far in the end the best setup is what clicks for your brain

I usually just try to keep buttons close together in the order that you push them in. I don't give it too much more thought than that really. It's all just whatever you get used to

@@tacotuesdays3336 I agree I usually end up changing some things based on personal preferences, but the videos usually give me a general idea of how to set it up and a baseline for what’s most important to press

When I play gunbreaker and dark knight for that part I just pop a short cooldown and follow everyone else hahaha

haha for real. I was just mashing buttons at that point when I was learning the fight

Sub stats could definitely use some work

@@4SkippyRoo I’ve been using the same opener they have and then just try not to drift anything throughout the fight. It felt awkward at first since you have to move some stuff around but it’s been fine since I got used to it

@@99_Vit I'm hoping it's just a clash of old & new muscle memory atm

The only thing I can think of is having auto target lock enabled. Normally activated manually with NUM5, this forces movement relative to the boss and prevents entering the hitbox. There is pretty much no reason to have that setting on.

Can you elaborate? Do you mean to say you walk when going backwards? Check your Movement settings and perhaps change 'Standard' to 'Legacy'.

@@MrBills5700 No, I have Legacy movement. I mean that my char stops moving forward at the edge of the boss targeting circle and will just move around the circle. If I want to move into the boss (say to avoid an aoe where the safe zone is in the boss hit box), I have to disengage.

@@4NSW3RM3 Character configurations --> Control settings --> Target--> Automatically lock on target when initiating auto-attack. Turn that off and you can move freely near your target when you're melee range

This is nothing like hw dragoon lol. But I liked the changes as well

@@CineGoodog I used to play back in HW since Midas. It's the closest thing to how it used to be and I'm excited. Let me have my moment, thanks.

​​@@clooebooie8801Hell yeah. Man people just want to rain on your parade huh lol. I feel that. I have been loving DT and I'm only on 94 MSQ, and its like I can't go anywhere without people going out of their way to tell me why I shouldn't like it or why its bad. Man why can't we just have fun and enjoy things

@@clooebooie8801in what way is this like HW DRG?

@@XChronicHash Let me preface this by saying im about to yap a bit, so if y'all dont feel like reading it all ill try to TL;DR at the end, but i would appreciate if you'd take the time to hear me and my reasoning out for my viewpoint here. reading it all will hopefully give y'all a bit of a clearer insight as to why i think that DT DRG is the sort of "spiritual return" of HW DRG. to me, its about the feeling that i get when im pressing through my rotation. it's pretty hectic during burst phases, especially during the 2 minute window. i have to put in a bit more thought than normal on the order i want to use my oGCDs in to make sure im not holding on to things like High Jump or Dragonfire, or also thinking of which two oGCDs i should double weave and when. its very engaging to me. when i played DRG in HW, it was the same sort of feeling that i get from DT DRG. of course the rotation was not as "static" compared to now, seeing as how sometimes you would delay popping Blood For Blood for a few GCDs so that you could get your power surged jump and an extra two geirskoguls inside of that BFB/Inner Release window for example. playing DT DRG does sorta give me this nostalgic feeling of having to think of what i press and when to press it like i mentioned earlier, which is why i am reminded of HW DRG. when DRG was changed in Stormblood with the addition of Mirage Dive eye stacks as well as Dragon Sight, it really killed the enjoyment of the class for me from day one. i know i'm sorta in the minority here on hating both of those class mechanics (i am also a known Heavy Thrust/Death's Design enjoyer), but needing to have up to 4-5 different Dragon Sight macros on me and more importantly the fact that, at the launch of Stormblood, you needed *four* Mirage Dive stacks to enter Life of the Dragon as well as the range of your Dragon Sight being absolutely abysmal, DRG felt extremely slow to start, clunky and unfun for me to play. Throughout SB they increased Dragon Sight's range and dropped Mirage Dive stacks from 4 to 3, but it still was not as fun to me as the high octane, high risk v reward that was HW DRG. Over the years they also made one of the main mechanics that i loved from HW DRG, maintaining Blood of The Dragon and pushing out as many Geirskoguls as possible (3 per minute), easier and easier to pull off until eventually in Endwalker they took out the need to maintain BoTD at all. *TL;DR:* To bring this back to how i think DT DRG is what i'd call the "spiritual return" of HW DRG; while the need to maintain BoTD is still gone, the removal of Dragon Sight and Mirage Dive eye stacks as well as the fact that Geirskogul instantly puts you into LoTD and LoTD has a passive damage buff which rewards skillful oGCD management during your LoTD window has made the class SIGNIFICANTLY more fast paced and and interesting to me, which reminds me of the same feeling i got with how exhilarating HW DRG was way back when during late 2015 - early 2017. if y'all took the time to read my whole yap, i appreciate it. the thing that i really value the most when i play FFXIV is how the job feels to play, and to me, i'm very happy that DT DRG has made DRG fun for me to play again.

to be fair everything feels bad compared to stardiver

I added the screenshake and sound from warriors new primal ruination to it and it feels great! That's how it should've been from the start...

Definitely feel the same about BLM Flare Star.

@@MrCeltius flare star is sooo lame, idk what they were thinking with that animation ngl. Another one i think is really lame is Disesteem. It does have good screenshake but it's just another line aoe with weird and small vfx. Then you compare those to something like perfectio or primal ruination which feel like fucking nukes going off!

Star cross as a continuation to the amazing Stardiver mive makess it underwhelming lol

I would definitely recommend this. I think most people play with limited effects tbh. I do as much as I can to keep the screen clear, even abbreviating player names and hiding damage numbers. It really helps in difficult content.

yeah, I definitely recommend playing with party effects on limited. I accidentally left them all on one raid night and died to the first mech cause I couldnt see a thing

You should really look into VFX mods then. Look at Papachins DRG mod. It's not a eye sore and doesn't hinder seeing mechanics at all.

you gotta really like dragoon to not just go play reaper right now