Dragoon (job)

The Dragoon, sometimes referred to as a Dragon Knight or a Lancer, is a Job that appears in several games in the series. Dragoons are special knights that equip spears to attack. Their stats are weighted physically, and they can equip heavy armor that is modified to look like a dragon. Their special ability is to Jump, which allows them to do an arial attack which does more damage than a normal attack. The drawback to this attack is that it takes longer due to the Dragoon having to Jump and then fall on his or her opponent. The advantage to this, however, is that Dragoons do not take damage while airborne. Another ability, called DragonSword (sometimes called Lancer or Lancet), allows Dragoons to absorb HP and MP from their opponents.

Notable Dragoons include Kain Highwind of Final Fantasy IV, Cid Highwind of Final Fantasy VII, Ward Zabac of Final Fantasy VIII, Freya Crescent of Final Fantasy IX, and Kimahri Ronso of Final Fantasy X. In Final Fantasy VI, the DragoonBoots allowed a character to Jump, and Edgar Roni Figaro and Mog could equip spears, and thus deal double damage on a Jump (normally, Jump would to 1.5 damage in this game).