Dragoons have two stuns!!!!! Or do we...Follow

Might feel sluggish because the actual stun effect doesn't proc until you actually land on the enemy and by that point the move has usually gone off and it's.to late for you to get out of the way.

It's extremely sluggish. You won't find many groups assigning stun duty to dragoons for this reason. I'm not entirely sure why they want to give you a stun when it's hard to catch really fast abilities with it, but I have a feeling that it's something like IKickYoDog mentioned: it's to prevent mobs from escaping your melee range more than anything.

Yes jump stun is very sluggish and I use it basically to stop a mob chasing a mage or on the really long special attacks some mobs have ..... but that's no reason to keep a drg out of stun duty... They still have Leg sweep which is I'm told just as strong as a GLP/PLD shield bash and is a fast stun as well

Well, to me there's a really obvious reason for not letting a DRG be on stun duty.

Your stun, as all other stuns are too, is on a global cooldown linked with your other skills. For anything that charges quick, it basicly means that you wont be able to do anything other than keeping an eye out for stun, due to it possibly not being available for 2,5 seconds if you just hit an ability, or hit an ability while it's charging even.

So you have a choice, use a DRG for pure damage, or let him just lounge around and just stun whenever it's appropriate. More often than not, there are other jobs out there that are better suited to be on stun duty unfortunately. Jobs that dont contribute as much with damage. Usually a second tank takes that role since they're only there to either jump in when stuff goes horribly bad, or to assist on spawns.

No, you're right. Leg Sweep is off GCD.

I think he is referring to the between ability cooldown, possibly? Given the "just stand around" comment.

I honestly wish more DRGs would pay attention to the fact that they do have stuns... usually it's a DRG (every now and then a MNK) tossing stun WS's at Ifrit and other bosses messing the resist all up ^.~

Thought I posted in this thread already but: I really hope Dragoon revamp is high on their to-do list.

Stuff like our stun jump honestly just seems useless to me because of how much danger it puts you in (same for the regular jump). Dragoon overall is very sluggish and more trouble than its worth from what I have seen... It's still my favorite class so please don't flame, but I feel that the least amount of work was put into it for 2.0 versus the other classes. Just my opinion.

I wouldn't necessarily mind staying rooted if they would add a stronger buff to power surge. High risk/high reward type of thing. Maybe add a trait bonus.