You missed my entire point about war and DD. The ONLY reason war is as popular as it has been since abyssea is because it procs like mad. In abyssea it could cover all red except katana and a crapload of blue. In VW it covers a HUGE array of procs on 1 job.
Drg covers virtually nothing.
I dont go nearly exclusivly rng to VW because it out DDs my drg (its nowhere near my drgs DD prowess). I go because it procs marks/arch and almost all axe/dagger in 1 party slot.
War is popular (right now) because of the NON damage stuff it can do. Damage is a bonus, not a requirement. If you removed all the procs from war and gave them to drg, guess who would be the next bandwagon.
My point is that more damage wont fix drg. You point to angon and say 'thats it!?' I remember being 75 and being picked to go to zergs as THF over my drg for crying out loud because 'at least thf has TH'. Then after angon came out i went to EVERY zerg as drg for angon even though i couldnt zerg for *** (at 75 pre-magian).
Angon took drg from undesirable to a must have at every major event. The utility is what did it, not our damage. Right now war is popular for its utility in procing everything. Even if we DID out DD wars, they would kick us for one in a second. Damage wont fix drg. We need to have what players want. That has always been to have what you need to get more stuff with less people. It used to be TH. Then it was abyssea procs. Now its VW procs. My drg could out DD all the verathranga-less mnks by miles in abyssea, but everyone clamored for mnks because you could pop in blunt, proc, and move on with your life. No one gives a ***if my drg can kill a mob in 3 minutes and take a gimpy mnk 6 minutes because in 6 minutes you have your drop in blunt window. WIth drg its dead in 3 minutes, then you spend another 20 farming another pop because it was archery proc instead of polearm.
What can drg do to make a HUGE impact on an alli to the point that players want it and would miss it? Angon was a great start in that direction. Atk bonus VI wouldnt have that impact. Alternatively what can drg do in a skeleton crew (super low man efficiency like Mnk+whm abyssea bandwagon)? I am not sure, but something to encourage that. Those are the only to ways in the new vanadiel to increase your popularity. back at 75 you just needed TH4, angon, and a crapload of killing power/support jobs in every other slot, so highest damage jobs won. Damage isnt the center of getting your ***faster anymore. Its about these funky proc systems and/or low man efficiency. Atk bonus VI doesnt help us in those directions in the slightest. That would only matter if SE does away with all procing and its back to TH slot. DD slots. Support slots. for an alli.