How much skill speed is required to play Dragoon?

Due to the amount of our damage that is tied to oGCDs with cooldowns unaffected by skill speed and the cooldown drift that occurs to these oGCDs when our GCD doesn’t line up cleanly, DRG wants to stay at it’s base 2.50 GCD speed as much as possible.

What abilities can I double weave? And is it bad to use the increased Recast Time on Action Change?

Besides Stardiver, all of our actions can be double weaved on a good connection (<150ms ping). Certain abilities (High Jump, Dragonfire Dive & Winged Glide) have a slightly longer than normal animation lock which can make double weaving these actions slightly more difficult.

Using the increased recast time setting will cause the follow-up action to not be usable for 1.0s. This adds 0.4s to a Geirskogul > Nastrond weave, for our jumps it adds 0.2s and for Stardiver it doesn’t add any since the animation lock already exceeds this time.

It is possible but very rare that this delay will cause any problems, the most likely scenario is a tight High Jump > Mirage Dive weave in a fight with downtime. Skill speed rotations may also encounter problems from this setting since timings are often more strict.

Use whichever settings are most comfortable for you above all.

How difficult is it to play Dragoon?

Dragoon is fundamentally punishing but very simple once mastered. The job resolves around continuing your alternating 5 GCD combo loops and pressing most of your oGCDs exactly as they come up.

When should I use LB3?

LB3 should be used when needed above all, when you have flexibility however; Make sure you are not delaying your High Jump or other oGCD cooldowns by using it. Aim to use the LB3 after your Chaotic Spring combo and repeat the same combo after your LB3.

How do we use Wyrmwind Thrust?

For every executed Raiden Thrust we obtain 1 Firstminds’ Focus stack, 2 of these stacks can be used to execute Wyrmwind Thrust. Since there is no restriction on when you have to use this ability until your next stack is obtained, you can freely delay it for the 12s~ window to fit into your buff window or use it to cleave.

How do we use Life Surge?

Life Surge should be used on our highest potency weaponskill while avoiding overcap, this will usually result in using 1 charge during our 60s burst window and 2 charges during our 120s burst window.

The priority of which weaponskills should be buffed by Life Surge is as follows: