You say that, but one run of The Tower at Paradigms Breach I had gotten through flawlessly through the first two bosses and most of the Red Girl fight, when a tank with a buster popped sprint towards me and killed me. He was completely fine where he had been. THEY FEAR THE NON-FLOOR-TANK DRAGOON, FOR THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT
@@HikingFeral I just started leveling Dragoon and I can tell you the animation locks are not as bad anymore but it was still a coin flip if you could survive a mechanic while keeping uptime on your cooldowns. Obviously, the meme around tanking the floor is more about Melee DPS in general- as a Reaper main I'm constantly trying to finish my bursts that I end up tanking the floor. Unlike Samurai's Iaijutsu, or Dragoon's animation locks, though, Reaper is on the safer side of things until you use the wrong teleport and jump off the map.
New player here. I was doing the first dungeon of Stormblood like 2 weeks ago and I used elusive jump accidentally but avoided an aoe unintentionally and got everyone to commend me and someone in chat say, "You give me hope sprout"
...... while i have never jumped off the cliff thanks to EJ, the fact someone gave you that message gives me hope, keep on going for us dragoon mains you magnificent bastard!
First time I used elusive jump was in the Titan dungeon. I’m guessing you all know how that went. Now, as a main DRG and a sprout I’m pretty sure I just get commendations because I remained alive.
@@melissaharris7573 Yep, did the same once. I went through my entire melee combo going "okay, now remember, don't use displacement, just back up" over and over. Guess what I did after my melee combo was done. Fucking guess.
As a dragoon sprout i’ve been wondering are people always this generous in giving commendations so I also always gave commendations to those who stayed behind, now your comment just made me realize it it might have been cus i’m a dragoon who didn’t floor tank 😂
I think my favorite moment as DRG was fighting Shinryu and accidentally killing myself by jumping off the edge (apparently his hitbox is beyond the arena you're standing in).
That was my first time experiencing an active time maneuver. I assumed it was the same thing as quick time events so was waiting for the prompt to press a button. I don't think I got a raise for the remainder of the fight (DRG)
I just recently did Wheeping City of Mhach as a DRG and when fighting the weird orb boss I intentionally decided not to do any jumps for exactly this reason and I suspect my judgement was correct lol
@@Wuffskers Luckily, Ozma's jump hitbox doesn't send you over the edge, only to the edge of the platform. Just watch out for jumping straight into his beam AOE attack. As far as I can remember, Shinryu has been the only boss with the hitbox problem.
I’m still somewhat new to FF14. I just got to level 54 on my main class as Scholar (healer). And yet despite this I know just how real these memes are. So much of my work is just keeping dragoon alive. I literally always have to give dragoon the least priority because I know I’m probably gonna have to pick them back up again soon. They need to fix its animation locks and give it a charge move Edit: Dragoon has been saved Comrades! Animation locks been reduced drastically!
Just the other day in world of darkness I watched a dragoon backflip into the purple puddle get eaten, I raised him so he could spineshatter dive back into the puddle and die again...
This lowkey reminds me when fighting Titania our healers and tanks all got wiped so hard, I, DRG main sprout, ended up being the only one not dying and standing there alive and almost got the boss with like 10% hp left, before it gives me a yellow marker It was very bizarre I don’t know how I survived til then
Being a DRG main has given me so much anxiety for new dungeons. I’m gonna die from the mechanics I don’t know yet regardless of job, lol but everyone just thinks it’s cuse im running DRG.
This happened to me last night on my last dungeon. There was a first boss and I guess you dont even fight him and all ov a sudden I was raised into the air. This happened three times and I was like "what the hell is happening!" and someone was just like "lol"
I remember changing up my hot bar, as a DRG main, and accidentally forgetting about it, not practicing it, and logging out. Next day, atart off with a trial. Forget which one. Queue pops, watch cutscene, apologize for holding up the game, get told its okay. Fight starts, and I had swapped high jump and elusive jump. Right off the stage before the boss fight started. Whole party got a good laugh while they began their rotations.
@@KajuKajuKatli Yeah !! I reached level 50 last night and completed dragoon quests which gave me that badass black armour which is shown to us while selecting jobs at the beginning
@@Cyanide_Mallika dragoon artifact armours are SOO GOOD no one can tell me otherwise!!! I loved the level 50 armour, both the blue and black ones, level 60 is kinda meh but i'm looking forward to level 70!!!!
@@KajuKajuKatli Bro can you tell me where do i get level 50 and up Lances ? Abhi I have level 46 one and vo bht ugly lg rhi hai mere armour ke sath lol I am still new to the game, lancer is the only job where I am this high on levels.
Oh no. Watching that level 80 dungeon boss, and i could just *feel* the drg wanted to jump and every fiber in my being was just like. Don't jump to the boss, it'll kill yo-- annnd they died. Yep.
I wish I had recorded our all Ishgardian jobs run of Euphrosyne when it came out. It was all drg for the dps, so much chaos, so much jumping. It was my first run of the fight
The main DRG in me wants to feel insulted but... oh who am I kidding? It's true. All true. (still not changing classes tho, by now I'm way too commited to the aesthetic. #FloorTank4Lyf)
I thought I was crazy but I’ve been playing dragon since I started playing ffxiv in November 2021 and this is true, no matter what!! glad I’m not alone. I’m level 90 now with more exp but there are times I be kissing that floor more than most. I’m like… HOW!! I was with the party!!!?!? ugh. Everyone fine but ME.
I'm having a hard time playing other jobs... And it's all because of the Dragoon memes carrying over to these jobs! I can't help it that I'm a Dragoon main named Highwind...
Not gonna lie this is pretty accurate, I main a dragoon and elusive jump gets me into all kinds fucked up situations. I wont ever stop using it though, it's fun asf.
that's because it's not really a jump. It's more like a fast forward tp. Like the one Ninjas have. You go in a straightline. Only the animation makes it look like your jumping
Whenever you jump, you encompass every point between your starting position and your destination at the same time. Up until the animation ends you are everywhere at once. That is also the reason why Dragoons more than anyone else get screwed over by AoEs
I love dragoon, im new but i try to avoid every AoE and i get so upset when i dont get out in time and im like “NOOOO im trying so hard!” And say sorry when I die coz I feel really bad, also I follow the healers when i don’t understand a mechanic, they always know what to do 😂
Im lvling drg atm and overall I can keep myself alive pretty well, however, recently in duty roulette I got dun scaith… didn’t took long to find out that scatchach and diabolos are not meelee friendly. Me and my ninja friend floor tanked all the time 🥲 massive thx to the sge for all the rezzes and the dnc not giving up on me. Also thx for the unnecessary death random tank that decided last second to run at me with his tank buster. 💀 anyways it was a wild run. Still don’t understand how I got 4 comms out of that… since I lvl drg I get more comms than I get as healer lol
@@LadyMemenstein I mained rogue in WoW and looking forward maiming Lancer/Dragoon in FF14 unfortunately I deleted the last summer so now I have wait for Square Enix to get more servers.
Not really. There are no combo point classes in FF14. Maybe Samurai would be the closest as you have a big "finishing move" you use as part of your rotation after building up 3 different type of points (but they're personal, not on your target). In terms of fluff Ninja is obviously the closest. Plays nothing like a WoW rogue, though.
Wait where's the Ozma memes about how much that fight hates Dragoons Edit: I say this after watching my Dragoon friend fall off the map 3 times just trying to do her normal rotation
The glory of Goon is succeeding despite the memes, because you're the coolest class in the game. So dont worry, you're still in the Anger/Denial stage lmao
Dragoon is a great confidence booster job because people expect you to fail, so any time you stay alive, you get compliments
You say that, but one run of The Tower at Paradigms Breach I had gotten through flawlessly through the first two bosses and most of the Red Girl fight, when a tank with a buster popped sprint towards me and killed me. He was completely fine where he had been. THEY FEAR THE NON-FLOOR-TANK DRAGOON, FOR THEY DO NOT UNDERSTAND IT
You get 2-3 comms every time you do a run without dying
Why do people say this shit based on years old, long forgotten animation locks that are no longer relevant in any way shape or form
@@HikingFeral I just started leveling Dragoon and I can tell you the animation locks are not as bad anymore but it was still a coin flip if you could survive a mechanic while keeping uptime on your cooldowns.
Obviously, the meme around tanking the floor is more about Melee DPS in general- as a Reaper main I'm constantly trying to finish my bursts that I end up tanking the floor. Unlike Samurai's Iaijutsu, or Dragoon's animation locks, though, Reaper is on the safer side of things until you use the wrong teleport and jump off the map.
Or you can play tank and get those moments by default.
New player here. I was doing the first dungeon of Stormblood like 2 weeks ago and I used elusive jump accidentally but avoided an aoe unintentionally and got everyone to commend me and someone in chat say, "You give me hope sprout"
...... while i have never jumped off the cliff thanks to EJ, the fact someone gave you that message gives me hope, keep on going for us dragoon mains you magnificent bastard!
And then everyone clapped?
@@wackantheduck6883 And former president Barack Obama was there
omfg, that is beyond hilarious, you did well man, you did well. i know this all too well :)
First time I used elusive jump was in the Titan dungeon. I’m guessing you all know how that went. Now, as a main DRG and a sprout I’m pretty sure I just get commendations because I remained alive.
DRG sprout here, I too get the head pat and commendation for not dying!
Flung myself off the ledge hitting displacement instead of corps-a-corps as RDM and realized I'm destined to be a dragoon. Feel you there.
@@melissaharris7573 Yep, did the same once. I went through my entire melee combo going "okay, now remember, don't use displacement, just back up" over and over.
Guess what I did after my melee combo was done.
Fucking guess.
I don’t think I’ve ever known a DRG that hasn’t backflipped out of the titan fight lol it’s a right of passage. You learn quick how far 15 yalms is
As a dragoon sprout i’ve been wondering are people always this generous in giving commendations so I also always gave commendations to those who stayed behind, now your comment just made me realize it it might have been cus i’m a dragoon who didn’t floor tank 😂
Me, watching the DRG trying to line himself up on Therion: Oh, he's gonna do it-
DRG: **jumps**
Me: OH, HE DID IT! **wheeze**
Ok, I don't feel bad now cause I see that it's not me, I am just playing the class how it's supposed to be played.
SAM filming DRG while MNK watches is just so perfect.
The G in DRG actually means "ground" because we do be vibin' there for a good while lmao
Hahaha I love it xD
Yeah, because DRG means "Dragoon Resting on the Ground"
My God…my fellow players. Dragoon has been saved as of 6.1. the days of Dragoon being animation locked in mechanics are over!
yaaasss I didn't play new patch too much yet, but can't wait to see the changes!
Joke's on you. A true dragoon will still jump and hit that AOE with as much passion as ever, if only out of sheer greed.
I think my favorite moment as DRG was fighting Shinryu and accidentally killing myself by jumping off the edge (apparently his hitbox is beyond the arena you're standing in).
That was my first time experiencing an active time maneuver. I assumed it was the same thing as quick time events so was waiting for the prompt to press a button. I don't think I got a raise for the remainder of the fight (DRG)
I just recently did Wheeping City of Mhach as a DRG and when fighting the weird orb boss I intentionally decided not to do any jumps for exactly this reason and I suspect my judgement was correct lol
@@Wuffskers Luckily, Ozma's jump hitbox doesn't send you over the edge, only to the edge of the platform. Just watch out for jumping straight into his beam AOE attack. As far as I can remember, Shinryu has been the only boss with the hitbox problem.
Pulling off a perfect elusive jumps does feel pretty great
I’m still somewhat new to FF14. I just got to level 54 on my main class as Scholar (healer). And yet despite this I know just how real these memes are. So much of my work is just keeping dragoon alive. I literally always have to give dragoon the least priority because I know I’m probably gonna have to pick them back up again soon.
They need to fix its animation locks and give it a charge move
Edit: Dragoon has been saved Comrades! Animation locks been reduced drastically!
I always tag both the tanks and the dragoons with regen because I KNOW they're gonna need it
As a person who is comapratively new to the game and is fiercely loyal to her Dragoon title, this felt more attacking than real life insults lmfao
Elusive Leap is by far my favorite move and I feel like a boss whenever I use it in a new way
Ahhhhh, yes. As a WHM main these are my boys. No matter how hard it gets there is always a raise waiting for you..
Dragoons just wanna have fun 😂
Whenever I die a few times in new content, I tell myself that the healers probably didn't expect anything else anyway.
Just the other day in world of darkness I watched a dragoon backflip into the purple puddle get eaten, I raised him so he could spineshatter dive back into the puddle and die again...
Moment of silence for all the floor tanks out there...
"But im not dead ;-;"
Good dragoons, they’re rare but I’ve seen then out damage the average sam and most recently, reapers
Endwalker was not kind to Dragoons, back in Shadowbringers I could out-dps all but the best Sams/Black mages
@@PH03NIX96 yeah, that is true, but hey, we still got battle litany
This lowkey reminds me when fighting Titania our healers and tanks all got wiped so hard, I, DRG main sprout, ended up being the only one not dying and standing there alive and almost got the boss with like 10% hp left, before it gives me a yellow marker
It was very bizarre I don’t know how I survived til then
Being a DRG main has given me so much anxiety for new dungeons. I’m gonna die from the mechanics I don’t know yet regardless of job, lol but everyone just thinks it’s cuse im running DRG.
This happened to me last night on my last dungeon. There was a first boss and I guess you dont even fight him and all ov a sudden I was raised into the air. This happened three times and I was like "what the hell is happening!" and someone was just like "lol"
As a Dragoon main……..
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Yeah, it’s pretty accurate..
This video was based on true stories
xD
I remember changing up my hot bar, as a DRG main, and accidentally forgetting about it, not practicing it, and logging out.
Next day, atart off with a trial. Forget which one. Queue pops, watch cutscene, apologize for holding up the game, get told its okay.
Fight starts, and I had swapped high jump and elusive jump.
Right off the stage before the boss fight started. Whole party got a good laugh while they began their rotations.
me who picked lancer as my first ever job: so this is my future
sameee and I cannot make myself to like any other jobs, imo dragoon is the best
@@Cyanide_Mallika for real, dragoon is way too cool. dragooning has taken over all aspects of life
@@KajuKajuKatli Yeah !! I reached level 50 last night and completed dragoon quests which gave me that badass black armour which is shown to us while selecting jobs at the beginning
@@Cyanide_Mallika dragoon artifact armours are SOO GOOD no one can tell me otherwise!!! I loved the level 50 armour, both the blue and black ones, level 60 is kinda meh but i'm looking forward to level 70!!!!
@@KajuKajuKatli Bro can you tell me where do i get level 50 and up Lances ? Abhi I have level 46 one and vo bht ugly lg rhi hai mere armour ke sath lol
I am still new to the game, lancer is the only job where I am this high on levels.
Haha these are all too true!
*cries in dragoon*
I've been main drg since 2.0 and the only time I've used elusive jump was to try to backflip out of my own wedding ceremony :shrug:
I would love to hear what led up to this moment :D
Dragoon best class
Oh no. Watching that level 80 dungeon boss, and i could just *feel* the drg wanted to jump and every fiber in my being was just like. Don't jump to the boss, it'll kill yo-- annnd they died. Yep.
I am so glad I was on RPR for that boss because yup, I would've also been that DRG.
well yeah I've learned the hard way xd I honestly never thought that would be possible xD
I’m a former DRG turned tank and I fell off the edge because I tried to use a gap closer 😭
I wish I had recorded our all Ishgardian jobs run of Euphrosyne when it came out. It was all drg for the dps, so much chaos, so much jumping. It was my first run of the fight
As a DRG main I can safely say.....these are all true. haha! Floor tank for life!!
Party: "Are you really gonna jump around everywhere ?! 👁️👄👁️"
DRG: "Yes." 🗿
To be fair, not being able to cross gaps with jump abilities is counterintuitive.
Awesome stuff 😂
HO! HAHA! GUARD! TURN! PARRY! DODGE! SPIN! HA! THRUST!
"Dies"
You know you have the dragoon syndrome when you start backflipping all the time xd
I feel this is my soul
I did that in amaurot xD I was like, how bro?!
Bruh... That's me playing, LMAO
:')
Me looking at my 14k dps Drg on the ground 🧍
I see someone’s a fan of best Joestar.
The main DRG in me wants to feel insulted but... oh who am I kidding? It's true. All true.
(still not changing classes tho, by now I'm way too commited to the aesthetic. #FloorTank4Lyf)
exactly, same here, just embrace it:D hahah
1:07 had me in lol tears for some reason 😃
As a dragoon, I can safety say I've never leaped off the edge before lol.
Not even for fun?
First thing I do as a DRG is test whether the arena has walls with a good Elusive Jump.
*only in a party with friends.
@@darkslayer709 Based
Cap
I did it once and only once. Now I never use so I don't risk the embarrassment!!
the jojo memes had me in tears
1:12 is the Himothy of all Dragoons
DRG trally stands for
Death?
Raise.
Go do it again.
I've only played FFXIV for 6 mos. I'm a dragoon. I'm dead. A lot. LOL I didn't know I was a "floor tank".
Well you know now, embrace it! Hahah dont worry it aint so bad, floor pretty comfy 💤
Too funny, I really want to try a Dragoon now.
Someone has to do the job!
I thought I was crazy but I’ve been playing dragon since I started playing ffxiv in November 2021 and this is true, no matter what!! glad I’m not alone. I’m level 90 now with more exp but there are times I be kissing that floor more than most. I’m like… HOW!! I was with the party!!!?!? ugh. Everyone fine but ME.
me watching and noticing that it was a Dark Knight that took everyone out on the greased up slide and no Dragoon to be found
because that won't happen when we tank the floor!
Im just a lvl 67 dragoon, I have already been on the ground a lot, this makes me look forward to the future raids
Further the better! Until you finally learn every dungeon and raid and became master Dragoon!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH, so it's not just that I'm a shitty player, I just have to blame the fact I'm playing dragoon. Got it.
I'm having a hard time playing other jobs... And it's all because of the Dragoon memes carrying over to these jobs! I can't help it that I'm a Dragoon main named Highwind...
Tbf, the jumps over aoes and gaps should connect you to the other side without you taking damage/dying :(
Still my favorite melee. So fun
Not gonna lie this is pretty accurate, I main a dragoon and elusive jump gets me into all kinds fucked up situations. I wont ever stop using it though, it's fun asf.
2:06 that exact thing happened me and i deleted my dragoon after the dungeon, i never become so salty in my life until that moment
that's because it's not really a jump. It's more like a fast forward tp. Like the one Ninjas have. You go in a straightline. Only the animation makes it look like your jumping
@@Otch.o As a BLM the same things happen with Aetherial Manipulation. Not me of course, a friend was trying out my character.
Whenever you jump, you encompass every point between your starting position and your destination at the same time. Up until the animation ends you are everywhere at once.
That is also the reason why Dragoons more than anyone else get screwed over by AoEs
haha drg fall on ground so fun....... -_- come up with something people. like how badass Dragoon's really are 😎😎
I wanted to play one but I didn’t wanna be meme’d on
I always thought they were the coolest melee DPS class just off of looks and abilities (I only play healers/casters)
I've been playing too much War and now I on habit go to press my tank ranged and I always fucking back flip.
I love it xD
I did that in E9S last night 1:07
exquisite video
I love dragoon, im new but i try to avoid every AoE and i get so upset when i dont get out in time and im like “NOOOO im trying so hard!” And say sorry when I die coz I feel really bad, also I follow the healers when i don’t understand a mechanic, they always know what to do 😂
Does it mean I'm touched in the head if this makes me *want* to play dragoon?
Ive been looking for years fornthe video of ned flanders recusing a drg juat for him to backflip and die. Pls someone tell me where tk find it 😂
Ashera be proud
Looks fun.
my elusive jump button is r and ive ended up pressing it accidently so much recently ive been considering moving it ;-;
yeah that's what I did, too many jumps out of the arena xD
Report this, It hurt my soul and fragile heart
Im lvling drg atm and overall I can keep myself alive pretty well, however, recently in duty roulette I got dun scaith… didn’t took long to find out that scatchach and diabolos are not meelee friendly. Me and my ninja friend floor tanked all the time 🥲 massive thx to the sge for all the rezzes and the dnc not giving up on me. Also thx for the unnecessary death random tank that decided last second to run at me with his tank buster. 💀 anyways it was a wild run. Still don’t understand how I got 4 comms out of that… since I lvl drg I get more comms than I get as healer lol
listen im just bad at games let me live ( but its not wrong )
Poor Dragoons in ARR and Heavensward, having the worst Magic Defence so they took proportionally more from the raid-wide AOE's.
Remember some rando sent you a tell in rads asking if you wanted an FC. Well im cynthia, wanna still join the fc XD
Hahah oh no I do remember that! Sorry for disappearing I was queueing for roullete xD I'm already in other FC tho!
I use normal not legacy so I can't use elusive on the fly :(
I might miss understand this but are dragoons similar to rogues from WoW? XD
I honestly have no idea, played WoW couple years ago and not for too long...
...but that probably is accurate as I was actually playing rogue too xDD
@@LadyMemenstein I mained rogue in WoW and looking forward maiming Lancer/Dragoon in FF14 unfortunately I deleted the last summer so now I have wait for Square Enix to get more servers.
Not really. There are no combo point classes in FF14.
Maybe Samurai would be the closest as you have a big "finishing move" you use as part of your rotation after building up 3 different type of points (but they're personal, not on your target).
In terms of fluff Ninja is obviously the closest. Plays nothing like a WoW rogue, though.
Wait where's the Ozma memes about how much that fight hates Dragoons Edit: I say this after watching my Dragoon friend fall off the map 3 times just trying to do her normal rotation
Hmm well I never had a problem there xd and never saw any drg that have
Soooo, I shouldn't level lancer?
You should! The best and most fun class:D
@@LadyMemenstein alright so far I'm at level 40 Dragoon. And yes, it is fun jumping through PotD
Imagine still making dragoon memes in 2021. Might as well beat a horse that died 5 years ago
Well they definitely died at some point, lol
Besides, it's still relevant xD
As long as Dragoons keep supplying the content, the memes will live on!
At least horses don’t backflip off the edge lmao
The glory of Goon is succeeding despite the memes, because you're the coolest class in the game.
So dont worry, you're still in the Anger/Denial stage lmao