Wyvern Breath damage

[Mikeb]

I might start Dragoon for fun, and was just wondering about the Wyvern.

1) How much damage does it do?
2) How much damage do the breath attacks do? (against EXP mobs and against HNM)

I've also heard that you can avoid AoE's with Super Jump, can you avoid them with the other 2 jumps as well?

And finally, is the damage really *that* bad, or are too many Dragoons just gimped?

[diabeto89]

1. i notice about 1/4 and occasionly 1/2 of what damage i do
2. depends but ususally 40-80

you can avoid any kind of attack with super jump you just need to be able to do it at the right time

and finally, damage is decent with berserk and mithkabobs, you'll really start to do damage when you get penta thrust, but most of the time you'll be saving your tp for a renkei

[SolidSnake207]

1. About 1/5 - 1/4 of damage I do.
2. About 60-150. Does crap damage against most HNMs.

You can avoid all AoEs that are not executed instantly. I.E. Avatar two hours, bomb explosions, gobbie bomb tosses etc...

[totti591]

Il answer your questions:

1.Your Wyvern is set at 250Delay, Thus he Attacks at twice your speed. at lv50+ most drg avr 80dmg a swing. a wyvern avarages 20dmg a hit x2=40dmg which is 50% your dmg.
A wyvern can usually total 300-400dmg a fight at these lvs.

2. Breath attacks are Fixed damage just like a BLM's magic attacks. the set up for breath attack dmg is a calculation of
HP. the calculation is this:

Wyvern MaxHp is 50% of Dragoons Natural MaxHP.
The Breath Attack is exactly 25% of the wyverns current HP when used.
So an Example at My LVl:

Dragoon:1000hp
Wyvern:500hp
25% Of 500hp=125, Thus Breath Attack does 125dmg.
your DRG AF pants add 10%HPmax to Wyvern thus increasing its breath attack dmg, Currently at lv54 Breath Attack does 138dmg


Super Jump is a 5:00abilitity It sheds all your Hate back to 0
and lets you avoid any AoE/special Ability/ your invulnerable for 5seconds. Jump is a normal attack that can do up to 3x DMG it also gives 12tp back, does not let you evade attacks. High Jump is another jump that can aslo deliver 3xdmg and lower Hate.


as Long as your well Eqp you can deal damage just fine.
DRG becomes Gimped at 60+. Simply Because we get completly
trashy as hell WS. while DRKS get spinning slash and Cross Reaper.

as A drg with wyvern you deal the same dmg a DRK does per swing. odds are you will hit more then a drk because of our superior Accuracy. We also gain TP fast. we are second to samurai. we also have 2 jump attacks do deal out dmg and gain TP from. IMO we are actually equal to or better in terms of raw damage then DRK. The reason people dont like DRG is because
we arent a very versitile class when it comes to Party set ups.
We get screwed in the armor department. we cannot use
long range weapons, we have very low defense. we have
very crappy polearms after 60, unless you farm your ass off
for sniper rings and other accuracy gear your jumps will miss alot.

Your wyvern dieng really isnt much of an issue later on the lvs thou. it lives pretty much safely especialy with Spirit Link.
just keep DRG/WAR combo us food and make sure to get Accuracy high. Penta Thrust is A 5 Hit WS that will usualy
suck ass if you have low accuracy. it is also a powerful
Light Elemental WS that can deal huge DMG on dark elemental monsters. during Genkai 2 When we fought the Dark Hound
HNM me and another lv50 drg Penta Thrust it for 1500dmg ><

its a good class imo we just need some some tuning.
square did good by giving us spirit link and dismiss. it seems
they are concetrating more on improving the wyvern then us to balance us out. I just hope our wyvern will be given Dispel Wings like the real wyverns in the game do heheh.

[Malefas]

Just so you know, Wyvern damage can cap out on regular attacks.

For example, if I go out to Sauromugue Champaign and let my Wyvern attack some mobs, it will hit 192, and its critical strikes are also at 192.

So yes, Wyvern damage does cap out, hehe.

[Zihn]

1.Your Wyvern is set at 250Delay, Thus he Attacks at twice your speed. at lv50+ most drg avr 80dmg a swing. a wyvern avarages 20dmg a hit x2=40dmg which is 50% your dmg.

Either your wyvern is on speed or all wyverns in the game is running constant slow. Using a 396 delay spear i attack at same speed as the wyvern +/- .01 sec or somthing

Wyvern MaxHp is 50% of Dragoons Natural MaxHP.

Dont know what your wyvern eats but at lvl 75 i have just around 1200 hp but my wyvern have over 900 hp... how do i know you ask, well when it can survive a 700 dmg Astral flow from Ifrit and still have 20% hp left it sure as hell dont have 600 hp witch is half my natural max hp

As for how the breath dmg is calculated it's realy not that simple. At lvl 75 my wyvern usaly do 80 dmg per breath depending on mob and up to 160 somthing on weaker types, then again it only does like 10 dmg (less than normal hits from wyvern weee) to the Aura statues in Sky area (thats golem type mobs)