(04-13-2015, 10:14 AM)Warren Castille Wrote: I'll spit out the inconvenient caveat:
The dragoons in the trailer are probably life-long soldiers and cream of the crop. They're the ones on the front lines right now killing dragons to protect their country. It's not unreasonable to say "Oh, that's what world-class dragoons are capable of."
That's not to say that every single dragoon out there learns how to do it instantly.
I completely agree, and this is more or less how I look at it. In my opinion, after the Fall of Dalamud the war likely became far more brutal and made those Dragoons that fought and survived all the more formidable. For Flynt, he is, and will always be a Dragoon. He's dedicated his life to the spear and it's really the only weapon he uses if only because the level of dedication I imagine it would take to retain those skills at that level is huge.
Even still, he ddoesn't typically use jumps in fights with people, since even at the speeds it can be done, it usually isn't viable or practical. For me, one of Flynt's biggest growth points for progression is creating his own fighting style that uses Dragoon abilities in a way that works more in traditional combat. To give an example, when Flynt fought another Dragoon from his past they bounded near and past each other attempting to slash one another before Flynt tried to launch/into/ him with a flying knee (not his smartest move…). The result was several broken bones and nearly being knocked out in the process from the sheer speeds and limits of the human body. For me, the ability to not only jump in that manner, but to do it in a way where you don’t kill yourself requires constant practice
This actually leads to what I always thought the points on a Dragoon’s armor were for as well! While I agree that it also was very much useful in preventing being eaten/causing a severe case of indigestion if they succeed, I always thought they would also aid a Dragoon in staying on his foe if he did not totally “Stick†the landing (See what I did there? Anyone? I’ll see myself out…) I actually wrote a combat scene for Flynt where he was falling facing skyward and using his spear to hold off a pursuing Aevis, and used his back points of stabitude to attach himself to an unsuspecting Dravanian (which added a whole new meaning to the term backstab).
...I don’t really have much else to add, I just love talking Dragoon lore
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