Muadib's Dragoon Solo Guide

This is a work-in-progress guide.

Table of Contents
Subjobs Understanding Healing Breath Healing Breath Gear Lance Analysis Gear Analysis

White Mage
Best for utility.

Healing Breath Trigger: Dia

Blue Mage
Best for optimal damage output and mitigation.

Healing Breath Trigger: Foot Kick

Understanding Healing Breath
Healing Breath has 2 phases that can be dealt with separately, the trigger and the heal. Phase1 (Trigger) - The trigger has 2 conditions. HP must be below a certain threshold and a spell must be cast. Phase2(Heal) - The heal is based solely on Wyvern HP.

The goal here is to be able to trigger the Healing Breath with the highest HP possible and yield the highest damage healed possible.

Separate macros can be used to augment these phases. Reserve 2 macros for Healing Breath and 1 macro to put solo gear back on.
 * HP+ Gear - First slot goes to Drachen Armet rest to HP+ gear
 * HB Gear - First slot casts your trigger spell, second slot waits 1 second, third slot goes to Wyrm Armet or Saurian Helm, rest to Wyvern HP+ gear
 * Solo Gear

Lance Analysis
Follow this Dragoon Equipment Guide for lances up to level 75. There isn't much difference between a typical DD and solo until then. At level 75 choices abound with the Magian lances and other various endgame lances.

It is without dispute that the current polearm hierarcy is: Ryunohige >> Gungnir >> Herja's Fork >> Chauve-Souris >> Rhongomiant. If you can obtain these polearms then do it. Rhongomiant can be especially helpful for soloing with the +20 mod to vitality.

Gear Analysis
Notes.
 * 1) With Sanction:Refresh and FOV:Refresh there is no real need for MP+ gear.

Several factors go into making choices for gear.
 * Easy Prey - Focus on attack gear for a quicker kill. Since Dragoon got buffed to B evasion and B- Parry, adding gear to augment will show improvement, but unnecessary due to easy access to refresh.
 * Decent Challenge/Even Match - Balance attack gear with defense gear
 * Tough/Very Tough
 * Incredibly Tough
 * Notorious Monsters