This Plus 100 more through Souleater. This is such a strong spell and learning to use it correctly is integral to being a useful Dark Knight. It's not a lot of PDT like Sam and Mnk can get, but it might save your life from a 1 shot Eagle Eye Shot or something so I'd recommend having it. cost of some DPS. The How-To Guides are user created guides editable by anyone. You can check your stats under an item level 475 Aeonic Im working on lionheart for my runefencer. There's a lot of accuracy gear to play with in this set. tome pants for savage release requires capping tomes on the week of normal mode Category:Guides | Classic FFXI community | Fandom Some general tips I would recomend for every DD job not just Drk is to always get your affordable major accuracy pieces as soon as they are available, that's Sniper's Ringx2 at 40, Life Belt at 48, and Haubergeon at 59. and Minimum IL options enabled. However, you make up for it by having a decent amount of agility, and the highest vitality in the game, making you by far the most survivable of all Dark Knights. Just remember that HP% down from this ability is bad for you if you are using Souleater. Though not very high, Dark Knight has some skill in Marksmanship. Please feel free to add more if more are added at a later date. Apoc VS Calad: Fenrir.Puciato: 34: 2262: 4 years 1 month. Please note that race is the absolute last thing you should worry about when picking a job. and 120-second cooldowns and should minimize rotational drift. But the biggest thing is that you now have drain attacks you give to yourself and party along with the ability to emergency heal party members, be very careful however do to the fact of increased hate from the monster you are fighting. Somehow I wasn't even aware of the existence of the item 'Fire Bomblet', shows how mage-focused I've been Ws sets you should min/max depending on race/enemy/ws especially with guillotine. melding menu. Trade the cherry to the??? Combine with Shield Break, your Dark Knight will be able to deal significantly more damage (as much as 15% more) over time. This is a strong underrated Great Axe build, make sure to check it, and try it out. High delay means that a missed swing is very detrimental for TP gain, moreso than missing with a lower delay weapon would be. It also has a higher damage cap than drain, so you can hit for 400+ damage in max sets. Shout group ambuscade/dyna/whatever since sakpatas came out. Berserk will lower your defense by 25%, but increase your attack power by 25% as well. updated gear guides for 2020? : r/ffxi - Reddit I don't care about parse, I care more about right equipset to use when I need it. Great Swords are at the lower scale of damage over time and has a lower rate of TP gain over time (i.e. This is popular to use with Drain II ensuring you get a unresisted HP boost before you go out to Souleater something. Except now you can absorb the targets TP every minute. Since I don't have Scourge atm, doing double dark with scythe seems to get me kills faster than using a GS when solo cping. A full team of eighteen Lv.75 Dark Knights using Kraken Clubs can take down even Kirin before he summons his minions. These substitutions are shown on the weapon and earring, respectively, but can On Eden, Dark Knight finds a home as a heavy DPS job that brings moderate amounts of support to the party with things like stun and enhancing the effect of chaos roll. Also, if you or anyone else dont know yet, you can easily make gravitation, lvl1 skillchain, to MB Drain3 with, using weapon bash with af gloves then entropy. Allot no more than 136 points into each substat for optimum Next is your body piece. This is shown on the weapon, but it can be done on any other slot FFXIclopedia is a FANDOM Games Community. Notes: The best weapon a Dark Knight can use until level 50, although it is not practical to do so since Scythe and/or Great Sword are very likely to become underlevelled. Enjoy! Both the 2.45 and 2.50 sets are recommended and have near-identical performance. Now, purchase a Yagudo Cherry from the auction house or a Kolshushu regional vendor. Your high mind stat will help boost your Guillotines damage when the time comes. If you do not have a Bozjan resistance relic weapon, simply use any weapon The Delay:430 will say "TP Damage Machine" when you activate the OdDD aftermath from Caladbolg's Torcleaver. At Lv.10 you get your first Attack Bonus, which puts you into position of damage-dealer right away. However, some other leg wear are better (lv55 ones are great). any slot you prefer, but the latter must be done on the crafted ring as it is By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Hit and one Skill Speed materia in the ring and two Critical Hit materia in the Finally, you begin the arduous task of getting AF and limit breaking quests done. If you need less accuracy you can use items like Bomb Core and Cerb+1/Foragers Mantle. Dark Knight a.k.a. Should probably have one for pulling in case you have to anyway. You badly need to be doing both if you care about this job. release. For those wishing to run 2.50. [click header for High-end Armor Sets (Offensive) section], VI-3. Me, Id be Absorb-DEX all the way, but Im just an accuracy nut. Offensively, Dark Knight gameplay involves building and spending both Mana and Blood while managing a suite of high-value offensive cooldowns. With the introduction of the Haste cap all the information that was in this section became obsolete and a lot of the fun nuance in zerging removed. to receive a key item. . The problem is that if you are stacking Last Resort and Souleater togethor, this staggers the timers and can lead to waste. Determination. the exact pieces used are just examples; any gear above the optimal sync Example would be 528 delay and 18% haste at 165 dmg is, 528 x 0.18 = 95.04 so 528-95.04=432.96 then 432.96/60=7.216 so 165 dmg every 7.216 seconds is 165/7.216=22.86 damage per second. You may opt to use an Augmented Classical Ring of Fending instead of its Healers will hate you if you abuse this too much, so please pay attention to their MP and use Souleater when it makes sense to use. Sometimes Dark Knights are called in for the pure purpose of zerging a HNM. and Critical Hit replaced with Determination). In actuality you are better off not casting this spell in most situations because the damage gained from just hitting the mob and generating TP the old fashioned way is just straight up better damage, but in some situations it is worth using. Check the later pages for the guides in the ffxiah forums. FANTASY is a registered trademark of Square Enix Co., Ltd. (Don't) Fear the Reaper: A Dark Knight Guide. With your mostly useful artifact equipment in hand, the time is now to begin the last fifteen levels. I assume the next best thing is judgement? Flamma Ring is a good choice instead of Rajas as well. Required Total Job Points Spent. With a Scythe out you have access to Guillotine, one of the strongest weaponskills in the game. FINAL This set posted has 400 accuracy, so with Hasso up is accuracy capped at the 410 mark we are looking for. To use Dark Knight optimally requires a lot of skill, and the player will have to be very careful of the hate threshold. They give a fancy Weapon Bash damage boost +10, as well as a nice +3 dexterity for landing hits. If not all the way to Lv.75, then at least to Lv.50 or so. Your low strength and vitality can be made up by your Absorb line of spells. Souleater also adds +25 accuracy while its up, which can help offset accuracy loss from Souleater enhancing items. concerned about absolutely maximizing their damage. requirement for the encounter is much easier to meet currently than on release He CE stands for Cumulative Enmity, this is enmity that doesn't degrade over time and you can only lose by taking damage, hate resetting moves, losing shadows, or being enfeebled. Even though youd probably hit for zero damage base, youd still deal 100 damage through Souleater. If you can, picking up a crossbow can really help. with CRIT+DET on it. In theory this puts out good white damage, but white damage alone doesn't make up for the huge lack of WS damage you will have with this weapon. Some of the upsides to DRK tank are low cooldown stuns, pretty decent offensive output with Drain2/Drain/Dread Spikes, and probably the highest enmity generation capability of any job. DRK fills additional roles in an auxiliary fashion such as: An off-tank (with some finagling as a main tank); This set has 407 accuracy with Hasso and Hume DEX. With Souleater up you would usually lose 12% of your HP with every auto attack, but when paired with Blood Weapon you will heal all of that HP back making it do no damage to you (this does not work on WSes). I have been doing RoE stuff and I'm following a guide to get 119 gear. Im kidding, of course. A poorly-played Dark Knight can just die a whole lot or just be a crippled damage dealer. Notable Weaponskills: None, Weapon Grade: E The spell only lasts 1 minute, so it can be frustrating to use, but when timed correctly is exceptionally rewarding. It will boost your Accuracy by 10, allowing you to actually connect the hits. Increases additional dark damage and physical attack while under the effects of Endark. You do not have the skill ranks that Warrior does to make this viable. Third Eye, acquired at Lv.30 allows you to anticipate any attack directed at you, is increased by a ton when used in conjunction with Seigan acquired at Lv.70. When subbing Warrior, get yourself an Axe Belt for higher skill in them than even your Scythes and Great Swords. Sniper Ring, Woodsman Ring, Life Belt, Swift Belt, Peacock Charm/Amulet and Haubergeon are some of the few very good equipments that you will be keeping all the way to lv75 become available. Thats 100x8 = 800 damage. It will then say Additional Effect: 100 HP drained from the Target. It won't actually drain the target's HP, but you will restore your own. It is not the main recommended set as a result, Hit X materia plus one Direct Hit IX with Skill Speed. For how long? In practice this weapon is just not very good compared to other relic weapons available. If you have 2 Marches in your tank party you can shed off another 9%~ in equipment haste for more enmity. Well, some may argue that if you have spent your gil making a Caladbolg 99 instead of Ragnarok 99 chances are that you aren't intelligent enough to compete with a Borealis/OAT GS DRK. Notes: Tempting although it may seem, do not Dual Wield on Dark Knight seriously. This guide is written by A Pile of Cats, a Dark Knight enthusiast Usually you will want to use this on cooldown just for more stats. be done on any other slots that won't overcap on the chosen substat as a result, Also I'd recommend everyone use a parser program like Scoreboard, Kparse, Parse, or Deeps to keep track of their accuracy and a general idea of how you are doing damage wise compared to others. Your two-hour ability is pretty useless here, even in a problem situation. Additionally, one Direct Hit X and one Critical Hit