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Dragoon (DRG) Actions, Traits and Role Actions
Legend holds that the dragoon tradition was born a millennium past, when the founding fathers of the great nation of Ishgard were journeying to the land promised them by the Fury. Upon arriving in Coerthas, the intrepid settlers were set upon by the great wyrm Nidhogg, the then master of that demesne, and a fierce struggle ensued.
The confrontation came to an end when a young man named Haldrath, taking up his slain sire's lance, landed a mighty thrust that prized out Nidhogg's eye, prompting his colossal adversary to take wing and flee.
From that moment forth, Haldrath became known by the epithet of the Dragonseye, and is to this day revered by all Ishgardians as the first dragoon.
Patch 1.21 saw the introduction of jobs to FFXIV, which allows you to become one of the traditional jobs from the FF series after completing a quest. A Lancer can become a Dragoon by equipping the Soul of the Dragoon item after completing the first quest. The details for this quest are below.
From that moment forth, Haldrath became known by the epithet of the Dragonseye, and is to this day revered by all Ishgardians as the first dragoon.
Patch 1.21 saw the introduction of jobs to FFXIV, which allows you to become one of the traditional jobs from the FF series after completing a quest. A Lancer can become a Dragoon by equipping the Soul of the Dragoon item after completing the first quest. The details for this quest are below.
| Quest | NPC | Location | Conditions |
| Eye of the Dragon | Ywain | Gridania, Lancers' Guild | LNC 30 |
For each quest you complete, you will be rewarded with a new ability, while the latter quests will also reward you with artifact (AF) armour that is shown in the screenshot above.
Introduction to Dragoon
Dragoon is a melee damage dealing job which branches from the Lancer class. The job will deal damage using powerful abilities designed to be comboed with one another to increase their effectiveness.
Attributes
As a Dragoon your main attribute is Strength (STR) as this increases physical attack damage. You should be focusing on equipment with this stat. For secondary stats you should be focusing on the likes of Direct Hit Rate, Determination, Critical Hit Rate and Skill Speed in addition to simply boosting STR. However you'll find Skill Speed is generally not worth it.
Skill Speed and Critical Hit Rate are self explantory in what they do. For the other two, Determination is used to boost the damage dealt by all attacks and the amount of HP recovered when healed while Direct Hit Rate is Stormblood's replacement for Accuracy. Instead of a simple hit or miss effect that Accuracy could give, having low Direct Hit Rate for a fight will reduce damage dealt so it is important to improve this stat.
Actions
Actions are skills that the Dragoon can equip to their bar and select to use at any time as long as their timer is available. Actions used in a combo will generate additional damage and effects. All Dragoon actions are exclusive to that job.
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| Name | Level | Cast | Recast | MP | TP | Range | Radius | ||
 | Doom Spike | 40 | 0 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 10y | 10y | |
| Delivers an attack with a potency of 140 to all enemies in a straight line before you. | |||||||||
 | Battle Litany | 52 | 0 | 180 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 15y | |
| Increases critical hit rate of self and nearby party members by 15%. Duration: 20s |
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 | Blood Of The Dragon | 54 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | |
| Increases potency of Jump and Spineshatter Dive by 30%. Duration: 20s Additional Effect: Grants Sharper Fang and Claw upon successfully executing Full Thrust, or Enhanced Wheeling Thrust upon successfully executing Chaos Thrust Duration: 10s Effects end upon reuse or upon using a weaponskill other than Fang and Claw or Wheeling Thrust. Cannot be executed while under the effect of Life of the Dragon. |
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 | Fang And Claw | 56 | 0 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | |
| Delivers an attack with a potency of 260. 300 when executed from a target's flank. Can only be executed while under the effect of both Blood of the Dragon and Sharper Fang and Claw. Additional Effect: Extends Blood of the Dragon duration by 10s to a maximum of 30s |
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 | Wheeling Thrust | 58 | 0 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | |
| Delivers an attack with a potency of 260. 300 when executed from a target's rear. Can only be executed while under the effect of both Blood of the Dragon and Enhanced Wheeling Thrust. Additional Effect: Extends Blood of the Dragon duration by 10s to a maximum of 30s |
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 | Geirskogul | 60 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 15y | 15y | |
| Delivers an attack with a potency of 230 to all enemies in a straight line before you. Can only be executed while under the effect of Blood of the Dragon. Additional Effect: Changes Blood of the Dragon to Life of the Dragon Dragon Gauge Cost: 3 |
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 | Sonic Thrust | 62 | 0 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 10y | 10y | |
Delivers an attack with a potency of 100 to all enemies in a straight line before you.Combo Action: Doom Spike |
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 | Dragon Sight | 66 | 0 | 120 | 0 | 0 | 12y | 0y | |
| Grants Right Eye to self and Left Eye to target party member, increasing your damage dealt by 10% and the target party member's damage dealt by 5%, as long as target remains within 12 yalms. Duration: 20s |
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 | Mirage Dive | 68 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20y | 0y | |
| Delivers an attack with a potency of 210. Additional Effect: Strengthens the gaze of your Dragon Gauge by 1 while under the effect of Blood of the Dragon or Life of the Dragon Can only be executed when Dive Ready. |
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 | Nastrond | 70 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 15y | 15y | |
| Delivers an attack with a potency of 330 to all enemies in a straight line before you. Can only be executed while under the effect of Life of the Dragon. ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar. |
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As well as these the Dragoon can also equip Lancer actions.
Combos
The Dragoon job has the following combos which can be executed. These will give extra damage and effects.
True Thrust > Vorpal Thrust
Vorpal Thrust > Full Thrust
Impulse Drive > Disembowel
Heavy Thrust > Ring of Thorns
Disembowel > Chaos Thrust
True Thrust > Vorpal Thrust > Full Thrust
Impulse Drive > Disembowel > Chaos Thrust
Role Actions
Since the Stormblood expansion for FFXIV, cross class actions were removed and replaced with the concept of "role" actions. Role actions are more generic as they don't belong to specific classes, but instead to roles such as melee DPS, magic DPS, healer or tank. The Dragoon can equip up to 5 of these.
| Name | Level | Cast | Recast | MP | TP | Range | Radius |
PvP Actions
From the Stormblood expansion PvP was revamped significantly and you can no longer use PvE actions during PvP battles. That means all of the actions above you can no longer use in PvP. Action Points (AP) were also removed. While some of the dedicated PvP actions do have the same name, they will have different potencies or effects. Below are the PvP actions that are unique to the Dragoon. There exists even more PvP actions and even traits but these are not unique to the Dragoon. You can find these further down the page.
| Name | Cast | Recast | MP | TP | Range | Radius | |||
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Blood Of The Dragon | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | ||
| Increases potency of Jump and Spineshatter Dive by 50%. Duration: 15s ※Action changes to Geirskogul while under the effect of Blood of the Dragon. ※Action changes to Nastrond while under the effect of Life of the Dragon. |
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Chaos Thrust | 0 | 2.3 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | ||
| Delivers an attack to target. Combo Action: Disembowel Combo Potency: 1,250 Combo Bonus: Damage over time Potency: 200 Duration: 18s Combo Bonus: Increases damage you deal target by 10% Duration: 18s ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar. |
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Disembowel | 0 | 2.3 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | ||
| Delivers an attack to target. Combo Action: Impulse Dive Combo Potency: 1,000 ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar. |
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Dragon Sight | 0 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 15y | 0y | ||
| Grants Right Eye to self and Left Eye to target party member, increasing your damage dealt by 10% and the target party member's damage dealt by 10%, as long as target remains within 15 yalms. Duration: 10s |
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Fang And Claw | 0 | 2.3 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | ||
| Delivers an attack to target. Combo Action: Full Thrust Combo Potency: 1,250 Combo Bonus: Strengthens the gaze on your Dragon Gauge by 1 Combo Bonus: Extends Blood of the Dragon or Life of the Dragon duration by 15s to a maximum of 30s Can only be executed while under the effect of either Blood of the Dragon or Life of the Dragon. ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar. |
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Full Thrust | 0 | 2.3 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | ||
| Delivers an attack to target. Combo Action: Vorpal Thrust Combo Potency: 1,750 ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar. |
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Geirskogul | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15y | 15y | ||
| Delivers an attack to all enemies in a straight line before you with a potency of 2,000 for the first enemy, 25% less for the second, 50% less for the third, and 75% less for all remaining enemies. Removes Blood of the Dragon status and all eyes from your Dragon Gauge. Additional Effect: Grants Life of the Dragon Life of the Dragon Bonus: Increases potency of Jump and Spineshatter Dive by 50% Duration: 15s Can only be executed while under the effect of Blood of the Dragon. Dragon Gauge Cost: 3 ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar. |
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Impulse Drive | 0 | 2.3 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | ||
| Delivers an attack with a potency of 500. ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar. |
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Nastrond | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 15y | 15y | ||
| Delivers an attack to all enemies in a straight line before you with a potency of 2,500 for the first enemy, 25% less for the second, 50% less for the third, and 75% less for all remaining enemies. Removes Life of the Dragon status and all eyes from your Dragon Gauge. Additional Effect: Grants Blood of the Dragon Blood of the Dragon Bonus: Increases potency of Jump and Spineshatter Dive by 50% Duration: 15s Can only be executed while under the effect of Life of the Dragon. Dragon Gauge Cost: 3 ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar. |
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Piercing Talon | 0 | 2.3 | 0 | 0 | 15y | 0y | ||
| Delivers a ranged attack with a potency of 500. Potency increases up to 400% the lower the target's HP. | |||||||||
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Skewer | 0 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | ||
| Delivers an attack with a potency of 1,000. Additional Effect: Reduces target's attack potency and healing magic potency by 10% Duration: 6s |
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True Thrust | 0 | 2.3 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | ||
| Delivers an attack with a potency of 750. ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar. |
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Vorpal Thrust | 0 | 2.3 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | ||
| Delivers an attack to target. Combo Action: True Thrust Combo Potency: 1,250 ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar. |
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Wheeling Thrust | 0 | 2.3 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | ||
| Delivers an attack to target. Combo Action: Chaos Thrust Combo Potency: 1,250 Combo Bonus: Strengthens the gaze on your Dragon Gauge by 1 Combo Bonus: Extends Blood of the Dragon or Life of the Dragon duration by 15s to a maximum of 30s Can only be executed while under the effect of either Blood of the Dragon or Life of the Dragon. ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar. |
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Shared PvP Actions
The following is a list of PvP actions which are shared across all classes and jobs. These can only be used in PvP areas and you are limited to selecting two of them.
| Name | Cast | Recast | MP | TP | Range | Radius | |||
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Aetheric Siphon | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 25y | 0y | ||
| Activates the instrument. | |||||||||
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Anti-gravity Gimbal | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | ||
| Simulates the spell Levitate using Nero tol Scaeva's odd contraption. | |||||||||
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Bolt | 0 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | ||
| Movement speed is increased. Duration: 10s |
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| Chimatsuri | 4.5 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 8y | 0y | |||
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Concentrate | 0 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | ||
| Creates a barrier preventing Stun, Sleep, Bind, Heavy, Slow, Silence, and knockback effects. Duration: 10s |
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Deflect | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 4y | ||
| Scatters potentially harmful aether. | |||||||||
| Doom Of The Living | 4.5 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 8y | 0y | |||
| Dragonsong Dive | 4.5 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 8y | 0y | |||
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Enliven | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | ||
| Restores 50% of maximum TP. | |||||||||
| Final Heaven | 4.5 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 8y | 0y | |||
| Delivers an attack with a potency of 9,000. | |||||||||
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Muse | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | ||
| Restores 25% of maximum MP. | |||||||||
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Purify | 0 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | ||
| Removes Stun, Sleep, Bind, Heavy, Slow, and Silence from target. Can be used regardless of own status affliction. | |||||||||
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Recuperate | 0 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | ||
| Restores 25% of maximum HP. | |||||||||
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Safeguard | 0 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | ||
| Reduces damage taken by 25%. Duration: 10s |
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Smoke Screen | 0 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 20y | ||
| Throw an incendiary device that creates a blanket of smoke temporarily granting you the Stealth status. | |||||||||
| Ungarmax | 3 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 14y | 20y | |||
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Vril | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0y | 0y | ||
| Use the aetheric residue lingering on your body to temporarily disguise yourself as one of Lakshmi's loyal dreamers. | |||||||||
Shared PvP Traits
The following is a list of PvP traits which are shared across all classes and jobs. These can only be used in PvP areas and you are limited to selecting three of them.
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Decreased Damage Taken | Decreases damage taken by 3%. |
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Decreased Recast Time | Decreases recast time of additional actions by 20%. |
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Increased Action Speed | Decreases weaponskill and spell cast and recast times by 3%. |
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Increased Damage Dealt | Increases damage dealt by 3%. |
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Increased Healing Potency | Increases spell-based HP restoration by 5%. |
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Increased HP | Increases maximum HP by 5%. |
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Increased MP Regeneration | Increases MP regeneration rate by 25%. |
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Increased Resistance Duration | Increases duration of resistances by 50%. |
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Increased TP Regeneration | Increases TP regeneration rate by 40%. |
Dragoon Equipment
The best equipment for your Dragoon constantly changes depending on what was added in the latest patch so it is important to do your own research on top of this guide. We have broken the equipment down into tiers in order to give some indication of what you can use before you get up to that item level tier.
PLD RDM SAM SCH SMN WAR WHM
Comments
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hater [Anon]
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Dec 14, 2013 - 14:14:27 | Location: Nowhere, In a Box |
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fickt euch ihr kanonenfurze und lusas. ich bin der onid und töhte euch mit H, HaHa |
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Xenor
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Sep 24, 2013 - 00:08:04 | Location: Durham, United Kingdom |
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Thanks Jonathan, I've added this to the list of updates for the coming week. |
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| Jonathan [Anon]
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Sep 20, 2013 - 13:13:41 | Location: Nowhere, In a Box |
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Just alittle thing ive seen Skull sunder and Bloodbath icons need to be swapped around. |
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| Anonymous
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Sep 11, 2013 - 23:33:37 | Location: Nowhere, In a Box |
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Spineshatter dive has a 90 second cooldown now. |
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| Alucard [Anon]
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Aug 29, 2013 - 08:04:24 | Location: Nowhere, In a Box |
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Would love to see the wyzern in realm reborn |
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| Kit [Anon]
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Aug 25, 2013 - 17:28:19 | Location: Nowhere, In a Box |
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Just to inform that it should be MRD lv15 instead of PGL... |
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| Anonymous [Anon]
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Aug 04, 2013 - 00:48:14 | Location: Nowhere, In a Box |
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You get PGL and MRD skills up to 42. |
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| Anonymous
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Aug 04, 2013 - 00:47:38 | Location: Nowhere, In a Box |
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You get all the PGL and MRD skills up to 42 that matter. |
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| Anonymous
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Jul 14, 2013 - 18:46:57 | Location: Nowhere, In a Box |
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So you need to have Pug to 15 to unlock Drg, but you get no Pug cross class abilities? |
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| Anonymous
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Jul 13, 2013 - 20:47:18 | Location: Nowhere, In a Box |
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Skull sunder listed on this page is not AOE in ARR beta 3. |
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