Drg In The Future

well, what gear would you say is a must-have for DRG? mine’s 66 now, level’d it for maat’s cap. now i’d be interested what kind of gear is needed. please no znm or salvage tho <.< i don’t do these. 3/5 homam, 3/5 heca & 4/5 askar tho, as well as rajas, ulthalams, brutal, aesir ear pendant... other stuff is buyable things like amemet +1, chiv. chain etc.

now what else would i need to be a “good” drg ? :P

salvage / vnm stuff lol.

besides some basic AH stuff that you probably already have too, it sounds like you already have the foundation laid, to me.

Ignoring expansion/znm/salvage pieces,

Weapon: OAT > Love Halberd > Valk Fork > Other polearm
Grip: Pole or Rose depending, maybe Sword but meh on non-OAT DRG
Ammo: Black Tathlum > Astrolabe > Tiphia Sting, White Tathlum situational

TP:

Head: Walahra Turban. Ace's Helm situationally.
Neck: Love Torque/Ancient Torque > PCC > etc.
Earrings: Assault/Brutal or Aesir/Brutal or whatever.
Body: AF2+1/Aurum/Askar/(Homam>SH+1) all depending on rest of gear. Aurum overall best.
Hands: Dusk+1 > Homam > Dusk
Rings: Blitz/Rajas for most stuff, acc/Rajas else
Back: Cuch if need acc, Forager's if not, Aesir if Darksday or Angon up or hugely buffed
Waist: Vbelt > SBelt > HBelt
Legs: Homam > Dusk Trousers
Feet: Homam ~ Dusk+1 (depending) > Dusk

WS:

Head: Hecatomb Cap > Maat's Cap > BIG PAINFUL FALL to Ohat/Wyvern Hat depending <_<
Neck: Love Torque or Flame Gorget
Earrings: Pixie or Aesir/Assault/Hollow + Brutal, Triumph works too.
Body: Aurum/Heca/uh oh
Hands: Heca/AF+1
Rings: STR/Rajas or DEX/Rajas
Back: Same as above really but with even less weight towards Aesir
Waist: Warwolf Belt/Potent Belt/Virtuoso Belt all good...
Legs: Heca > Dusk, AF2 and Askar both have DEX
Feet: Heca > Rutter's

Drg is amazing, I out DD most jobs without having Buffs and with buffs well>.> dont go there. The difference is war mnk get all theyre buffs but drg get jumps to get you tp to enable you to get tp faster and to never pull hate, if you are a good drg you should not need a buff JA of some sort. Maybe a multi hit form of jump. i agree that would be amazing but so far i see no flaws in drg as it is.

doublepost <.< internet was down

I agree entirely, Alastair :p people exaggerate differences between the DDs hugely. 2handers are roughly on par with each other and 1handers a bit below that. MNK is either low tier or high tier depending on gear.

In the future DRGs summon Virtual Wyverns and cruise the internet super highway looking for birds to pierce. They dawn Ace's Shades, and appear as characters from Tron, their Wyvern and them both glowing neon blue. In the future there is no need for a "party", as all your EXP has already been accumulated by people in third world countries.

Cool, thanks. Seems I already have like 90% of the stuff you said :P I need Homam feet tho and another neck piece.

Seems I'll level drg + drk to 75 next :D

Since you are cat, cat DRG pics are mandatory :O

You forgot Aurum Feet > Dusk Raen

ill post my stuff now 2 secs

in full purple AF? :P

TP
Main hand : Sarissa
Head: Aces Helm
Body; Ares's Cuirass
back: Forager Mantle ( want cerb+1 getting it soon)
Neck: Love torque
Hands; Homam Manopolas
Waist: V.Belt
Legs; Homam Cosciales
feet; Homam Gambieras
Earrings; Pixie/Brutal
Rings: Blitz or Ulthalams / Rajas


Drakes set
Head: Heca cap
body; Zahaks mail
Hands; Heca mitts
Waist; Warwolf
Legs; Ares's Flanchards
Feet; Heca leggings
Rings; Flame/Rajas
Earrings: Triumph+1/Brutal
Neck; Flame gorget

You forgot Gnad's/Nocturnus head somewhere between Maat's cap and OHat, maybe even Askar head. Also kubira might work if one is strapped for dex elsewhere and a love torque isn't a possibility.

he said ignoring EXPANSIONS those 2 head pieces come from the new expansions mate

This is what I use.. Oathkeeper is finished with Base DMG 99
Moogle helm: STR4 DEX4 WSacc15 Crithitdmg2
Blitzer pants: Haste3 ACC7


TP Gear:



WS GEAR:

I know full-well what the man said. But in this context I believe it's in reference to the Crystal/Moogle/Shan ones as opposed to Treasures/Wings.

Sounds good to me!

***-Shades

Drg is an excellent dd provided you stay on top of your ja's. /sam makes some pretty amazing things possible. From my personal experience drg tends to work better on fights where the mob lasts a good long time. If you spend more time between fights letting jump recasts stagnate your dot suffers more than other jobs like war, drk and sam who actually gain a competitive advantage from down time between fights.

Drg is good for things like einherjar but bad on anything with exceptionally high def such as sky gods with the exception of kirin because you can really let loose on that style of tpburn/zerg with less fear of getting hate for too long with shedding abilities.

If SE does make sekkanoki subbable, it will help drg quite a bit, I really can't wait for that. I'm very curious to see what they will do with the new jump and to see what special effect it will have under spirit surge. On the subject drg updates, the wyvern really need auto-regen. Making wyrm body be able to transfer job traits from /blu would be awesome as well.

Out of the DD class jobs, drg was the most versatile until blu and pup joined. The addition as dnc as a sub made it possible for the other dd jobs to solo mobs they could never do before while drg/mage could solo with no problems. I am an old school drg. First job to 75, no party invites and making just about every party, having call wyvern as my 2hr lol. And my favorite going though the loldrg crap. Something I loved to say when I did ***that shocked the hell out of people and then asked me how I did it, I would reply loldrg lol. All of that helped make me a far better player and organizer.

I learned to work with what I had and make it work which I think is the point of FF having so many jobs while other lazy(sissy) people were scared to try something different or just follow what everyone else was doing (sheep) An example of that is these merit parties. You can't have one unless you have 1 or 2 brds and or a cor. I miss the days when the only thing that would stop you from having a merit party was a main heal lol. But what do I know, I leveled drg lol

ok, should hit COR 75 today and will prepare DRG for exp then :P ... and will take a SS of my Mithra in purple DRG AF :D