Dragoon

Job Overview
Available after completing The Holy Crest. With their lances in hand and their faithful Dragoon Wyvern by their sides, dragoons suprise their enemies with their extraordinary jumping abilities.

Strengths

 * Having a Wyvern around provides a constant stream of extra damage.
 * Wyverns can use a variety of different breath abilities depending on support job.
 * The Wyvern's Healing Breath is the most MP efficient healing ability in the game.
 * Jump abilities, when used in conjunction with a high delay lance, cut off a substantial amount of time required to attain 100% TP. This makes Dragoon one of the faster TP building melee jobs.
 * Jump abilities allow a Dragoon to shed hate accumulated through battle.
 * Polearms are extremely effective vs Flying enemies.
 * While lacking exceptional defensive abilities, Dragoon has the faculty of soloing monsters efficently, often taking on monsters two or three levels higher than him/herself at higher levels by making use of the wyvern's healing breath ability.
 * Dragoon shines in overwhelmingly powerful party setups, ie. well-oiled merit parties. By making use of wyvern damage, TP and damage from extra attacks provided by Double Attack/Jump/High Jump, and the weapon skill Penta Thrust paired with supplemented attack stats, Dragoon makes a formidable melee job without using a Dual Wield or passive haste arrangement like that of Ninja, Monk or Warrior.

Weaknesses

 * Has a general lack of utility. While most jobs have a function or purpose that allows them to be implemented in a versatile manner, Dragoon can perform damage dealing duties with no peripheral function, or be implemented as a fairly mediocre healer in a group situation. Dragoon also has an exclusive specialization in the polearm, but lacks a viable secondary weapon choice for the most part.
 * Polearm users rely on a wide array of multi-hit weapon skills, all of which have a very demanding stat requirement to meet an acceptable damage potential in respective party environments. While this is mostly a non-issue as a Dragoon reaches level 75 (due to better equipment choices, lessened dependency on multi-hits, and relatively weaker opponents), weapon skill damage at lower levels can be discouragingly low unless used with exceptional equipment in ideal party settings.
 * Dragoon soloing stratagems are rigid and often entail a degree of risk some may find to be unproductive. For example, a Dragoon can not solo a monster which can potentially take a large portion of HP with one special ability, or a monster that would interfere with his/her wyvern's functionality with a heavy area of effect damage ability or enfeeble. This leaves fewer safe soloing options.

Abilities
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Job Abilities

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Job Traits

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Dragoon Wyvern
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Offensive Wyvern
If you have any of the following support jobs, your Wyvern will be an offensive Wyvern. This means it will use an Elemental Breath attack against the enemy. The Elemental Breath is triggered by the use of a Weaponskill.
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Defensive Wyvern
If you have any of the following support jobs, your Wyvern will be a defensive Wyvern. This means that it will use breath effects that remove status effects and heal either the Dragoon, the party or both. The Healing Breath triggers based on any spell cast while the Dragoon is at 1/3 HP and the amount cured is based on the Wyvern's max HPs. Removal of status effects triggers upon the use of a Weaponskill. Note: Casting any spell at 1/5 HP triggers a Healing Breath on the Dragoon only. {| border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center" width="100%"
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Multipurpose Wyvern
If you have any of the following support jobs, your Wyvern will be a multipurpose Wyvern. The Wyvern will use both Elemental Breath attacks and Healing Breath effects. A multipurpose Wyvern cannot remove status effects.
 * Paladin
 * Dark Knight
 * Ninja
 * Bard
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Combat Skill Ratings

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Information

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Artifact Equipment
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Artifact Set

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Artifact Set +1

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Relic Set

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Dragoon Guides

 * Dragoon: Guide to Races and Subjob Selection

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