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Any dragoons out there who enjoy their characters?

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#1

Right now, I’m a lvl 110 hop c2, going the pelt1->hop3->dopl->dragoon route. I’ve always played melee dps in every MMO I’ve played and was a little crushed to learn that there are no viable melee dps, at least none that measure up to archer and wizard classes. I was told that the route I’m taking would be as good as any as it would give me a decent dps and still get me party invites because of swashbuckling. With that in mind, is there anyone out there right now who normally play melee dps in MMOs and are enjoying yourselves as a dragoon?

Now that IMC is working on allowing premium items to be transfered between characters, I’m less concerned about needing to stick to my swordsmen who has all my exp tomes and dungeon resets from the founder’s pack. I started an archer and got him to 25 and have loved it so far.

So I guess my questions are these, if you’re a high level dragoon do you:

  1. Enjoy your character as a melee dps character or do you find yourself mostly running around swashbuckling and avoiding trying to get hit?

  2. Do enough damage to actually contest world bosses or do you regularly lose out to other classes regardless?

Thanks for any input!

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#2

Not a dragoon but I’ll give you my point of view as someone who partied with dragoons.

1 - They taunt and deal damage, usually rush and cyclone. Also timely Gae Bulgs are appreciated. Having enough HP, def and mdef will allow you to do more after taunting.

2 - Competing for world bosses as a swordsman class will be hard, but you’ll get your advantage if the enemy is weak against pierce. This is the case for me as a fencer. You’ll also notice that high level WB hunting parties won’t like you that much.

#3

Thanks for the reply. I’m not super concerned about world bosses but it was something I was curious about. I still plan on leveling my archer and plan on making him my world boss hunting expert. I just wanted some reassurance that I can atleast melee dps endgame as a dragoon and not just be a taunt bot.

#4

As dragoon 240 i can tell u that u are a tauntbot and nothing more.if u are low forget the sword and lvl the op archer.
Dragoon is soooooooo bad.when i lvl to 230 the other day and i tested every dragoon skill it was so big turndown.
Per example pierce and stabing of hop does way more damahe than every dragoon skill.
Im using the buff of 100% more damage witb hop skill and not dragoon so u can imagine.
At lvl 240 with fullbufs,two hand spear,deed of valor at 5 and the buff of hop of 100% more piercing damage and with lvl 20 more or less all skills the numbers are for me
I have 370 str 65 con 80 dex and finestra maxed so i have very high critical rate so those numbers are critical hits
Pierce to bosses hit for 12k
Stabing 8k per hit
Dragoon skills
Dragoontoth around 8k
Serpentine 4k per hit
Gaebolg 0 because i dont like this skill so i wont get it
Dragoontoth is slashing so it dont get the bonus from 100% of hop but it is good for debuf boses(shock)
Im lvling my archer and im loving him.i have been melle in every mmorpg since everquest in 1996 and i can tell you that melles are useless in this game.at high end u are evading skills all time and u cant hit never and if u are hitted while you animation skill goes off you are chain cced for ages.
For me if u are swordman is only for tanking,if u want dps only archer or wiz.
Btw im lowlvl but i have showed my numbers witb my dragoon,now i can tell you that a full dex build of quarrel3 archer3 only with use the buff runing shot and the skill kneling shoot is doing 4000x2 with every auto at lvl 240 so u can imagine how it is imposible to win in damage to archers in worldbosses when they are doing with their autos from safe more damage than u skill from melle