I found this in a nother forums site which I thought was pretty intersting. This guy brings up a major point.
I've decided to make my confession. Dragoons are not gimps like so many of these trolls on the boards would like you to believe. They are actually extremely overpowered.
Ask any dragoon... they will tell you what I am about to tell you, that dragoon outdamages WAR, DRK, THF, SAM, RNG, and MNK. This blatant lie that dragoons are bad damage dealers was spread by the aforementioned WAR, DRK, THF, SAM, RNG and MNK so that they would still get invites.
"Chili what about rangers? i thought they were the most powerful?"
Wrong. Here's something a RNG probably wont want to do - use a WS at the begining of a fight. DRGs can get away with this beause of super jump. This means more TP in the long run.
Sure DRG may hit for less damage in one swing, but they have low delay and an ACCURACY BONUS and don't forget the wyvern. With the wyvern a good DRG can match or outdamage most other DDs. How is this possible you ask, when their WSes do on average about half damage of other DDs?
Did you know DRG acctaully has the highest percentage damage output of any melee job (with thier wyvern). Without a wyvern a DRG has about 80% of the attack power as other melee jobs. WITH the wyvern it's over 120%. Their wyvern hits for about 20-30 damage. And it hits twice for every one of their hits. And it ignores defense.
say a DRK hits a Torama for 124 damage.
say a DRG hit that Torama for 90 damage.
the wyvern hits twice for 20 damage each.
do the math. 130 > 124
I don't want to sound like a snob, but you really have to play DRG for awhile to understand how to use it effectively. It is deceptively complex. Most people don't get the most out of their DRGs.
People say DRG suck after 66+, thats just a horrible horrible lie. DRGs have a blessing called accuracy, and quite frankly, don't need sushi at 75.(ask crinx he'll tell you how much sushi is horrible) In an xp pt, they get to use /war, and a DRK is shafted with /thf. Let them pop some str and att buffing food, use berserk, and wheeling thrust for 1k+.
Ranger is not simply the best, because they put out high numbers on weaponskills. I've out damaged rangers with my sam on exp mobs, i've seen rangers get out damaged by monks, dragoons and several other jobs. Your faith in rangers is misplaced at best. Although Dark Knight is great for stunning, when it comes to melee, . One Weapon Skill for whatever amount of damage every 30 monsters = .
Against end game HNM DRG have massive advantages against other melee. Fafnir/Nidhogg/Tiamat/Jormy/Vrtra? Dragon killer. Wheeling thrust ignores defense, which means that they'll be doing awesome damage when their wyvern that also ignores defense, is hitting kirin for 20-30 damage. Not to mention Super Jump makes them extremely overpowered when they can do 1.5k DMG to roc and then erase the hate.
Perhaps DRG has one weakness right? Skeletons? Wait... Bourdonasse = Blunt Damage = Skeletons die Also, the wyvern counts as blunt damage, so DRG > MNK.
Get out there and spread the word that DRG isn't gimp, its just the jealous other jobs spreading untruths about the best job in FFXI.
Discuss.