DRG/BLU ("We'll never ever stop!")

[Dexta]

Re: DRG/BLU ("We'll never ever stop!&quot

can anyone say "Kimahri"? =)

[Meatproduct]

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Well, I have to say that I really like DRG/BLU.

We did Diorama ab-something today, the teams were 2 vs. 2, All DRGs.

I personally soloed the lvl 72 DRG/WHM who had clearly better equipment than me, having access to the Dreizack and all. Once I finally hit 50% HP, I realized,
to my horror, that I had forgotten to set my trigger spells, Foot Kick and
Power Attack. All I had was Cocoon, Wild Oats, and a few spells equipped
for the stat bonuses.

I kicked his butt.

On the next fight, he and his teammate, a 74 DRG/WHM, both attacked me at the same time (they broke so many rules). I had my friend, a 75 DRG/RDM, supporting me with his wyvern. I stayed calm and spammed Foot Kick and Power Attack whenever I could. I never got interrupted, and survived two Penta Thrusts (I think). Neither me or my teammate got killed, and we were able to score 2 points each in that battle.

They then attacked our wyverns on the following round (also illegal),
and being the lowest level of the team, they went after mine first. So of course I didn't get to do any more testing after that.

So the moral of the story is that /BLU certainly has it's potential in survivability and excels under pressure and difficult fights alike. I would really recommend this sub to any DRG that wants an edge in solo xp'ing or in PvP.

I just hope the DRGs that we fought don't find this post, the lvl 72 DRG got so mad he left the linkshell

[Feba]

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on top of BLU buffs, it does give considerably better melee bonuses than WHM..

[Meatproduct]

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/BLU gives plenty of debuffs as well. Wild Oats for VIT-, Sandspin for Acc-, Sprout Smack for Slow Effect, Chaotic Eye for Silence, the list goes on and on.

You also get Clear Mind from Poison Breath + Soporific.

[Raydeus]

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Edit> Never mind, I just noticed the date, I'm sure everyone knows by now that Sanction Refresh is latent and kicks in at around 85%ish mp.

[Stromgarde]

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Sanction refresh stacks with PLD refresh just fine.

Your friend must have done something wrong; Auto-refresh goes to 100%, sanction does not.

[Skoal]

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Sanction refresh will also stack with juices.

[Maju]

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I've never seen a healing wyvern in action in a party so I'm curious. Does the healing breath activate even if it's another party member that's under 50% and not the dragoon itself? Wouldn't that make dragoons suitable for main healing as long as they have refresh effects?

[Grandsummoner_Kairos]

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Yes healing breath will target anyone in the party with under 50% hp with priority on the dragoon. I have actually main healed in a few parties in bibiki bay as dragoon getting 7.4k an hour because with refresh we almost never stopped unless someone went afk. I actually found it enjoyable for a change of pace, whereas i despise healing as summoner. Dragoon has an interesting dynamic when other subs come into the mix. I was also removing silence with cure breath when i weaponskilled.

[Skoal]

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Cure breath removes poison, paralyze and blind. It does not remove silence.

[Murphie]

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Cure breath removes poison, paralyze and blind. It does not remove silence.

Well, it couldn't, could it? Since you have to cast to get the Wyvern to use a healing breath, and if you're silenced...well. At least solo. Are we 100% certain it doesn't work in parties?

It's not like echo drops are a million gil each though, people. Any time I can cast, I have a stack on me.

[Skoal]

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Cure breath is activated when you use a weaponskill. Healing Breath is activated by casting a spell.

[Meatproduct]

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I've been asked to main heal as a DRG/RDM
I remember that we got something like 5k/hour, that was around lvl 50 in KRT.

[Murphie]

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Cure breath is activated when you use a weaponskill. Healing Breath is activated by casting a spell.

Well, that's what I get for not reading up on Hybrid wyverns enough.

[Grandsummoner_Kairos]

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oops, sorry for that mistake then. Its been a year since i leveled drg below 75