If you can't get an item with Fire Resist, equip whatever your best item is from the MDT set. Absorb-TP (45): This is a a fun spell, it allows you to steal TP from the enemy and give it to yourself. Kind of new to DRK, but really enjoying it so far. It basically trades-in a small portion of your damage over time for survivability and hate control, but only works well Lv.60 and higher. Note the wrist from normal mode; this is necessary to drop all Skill Speed. How do other DRKs handle Sheol C mobs that resist slashing? Two sets, only piece of JSE being +2 neck: How do other DRKs handle Sheol C mobs that resist slashing? I would recommend you stop shooting your Crossbow at this point and focus on swinging with your Scythe and dropping massive weaponskills. Oh and I didn't even mention that Catastrophe heals you for a percent of damage done which makes you very hard to kill with this weapon and allows for some very aggressive Souleatering. so i'ma try Drk out. slot won't overcap on Skill Speed as a result, indicated by red text in the Diabolic Eye - This is a pretty decent ability, giving Drk it's only on-demand accuracy increase at the cost of total HP. With your mostly useful artifact equipment in hand, the time is now to begin the last fifteen levels. A single piece of gear can often make up for a race's negligible lack in a stat. Haste is by far the most important stat in the game, especially if you are stacking it on top of other haste gear and buffs, so the DPS increase from +10% alone is absurd. Flamma Ring is a good choice instead of Rajas as well. Summary - The Gear Here is the best defense-wise for your level, the Courage and Balance rings are interchangeable and moreso since DEX+1 = ACC+1 since a previous update. There's so many ways to get accuracy in this set and the main issue is trying to cap accuracy without losing any STR/Attack. Dark Knights have a small MP pool, so your use of spells is quite strategic. Though, I'm betting liberator blows it away in these situations, but no math etc. This spells damage scales with Dark Magic Skill up until a cap of 300 and then stops, after that just gear for magic accuracy via INT, skill, and raw magic accuracy items. If you want to lower the recast you can use items like Homam and Dusk which have combination high HP and haste, plus save you a bit of inventory. There's so much useful info in hereespecially for new players. melding menu. Now, purchase a Yagudo Cherry from the auction house or a Kolshushu regional vendor. I personally think this is a good choice for a category 1 merit, allowing you to get to your next big souleater WS a minute earlier, or if your lucky enough with enough backline you can ride the whole souleater duration. Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/rikipediagamingMusic brought to you by the Real Rosa RosafarrelliCheck him out overe here:https://soundcloud.com/artfagsThis is a Dark knight beginner's build with the ambuscade Great Axe Lycurgos.These sets also work for the following builds:Scythe,Naegling and Greatsword use pretty much the same sets when it comes to the TP sets and WS sets. Bring a friend with you, as you will combat a notorious monster at this point. The DPS requirement for the encounter is much easier to gloves with a synced CRIT+DET piece as well is a negligible DPS loss. Now, since Dark Knight is about as frail as a Black Mage but with metal armor, I dont suggest you use this after about Lv.15 unless its really necessary. Support basically. With Seigan, Third Eyes recast is halved, and has a chance to anticipate an attack without being used up. General substat priority is followed with the exception of two Direct Hit melds Check the later pages for the guides in the ffxiah forums. It also has a higher damage cap than drain, so you can hit for 400+ damage in max sets. I own Liberator and Ragnarok Afterglows, and will eventually get Apoc when I stop being lazy. Samurai sub also offers defensively utility in Seigan, which allows you to mitigate most incoming single target attacks. Now I think its actually somewhat decent. Relatively few people play Dark Knight tank (we call it Slurp Mage in the discord) but it is an exceptionally good end game tank. The NQ is super affordable, and the HQ is a little pricy but is not impossibly expensive. Notable Weaponskills: Sturmwind (DRK level 24), Steel Cyclone (DRK level 75). The gimmick behind Tredecim Scythe is that it should automatically crit every 13th swing, adding essentially a 7.69% crit rate ontop of the weapon. Thank you in advance and again sorry if its been discussed before. Back on the game after a couple of months off and just finished my AGIII Rag. Warrior also gives you Provoke. Well, it's possible for Dark Knight to solo Neak (half bragging, half just wanting to tell someone because I'm so pumped): Well, it's possible for Dark Knight to solo Neak (half bragging, half just wanting to tell someone because I'm so pumped). Dark Knight is a greatsword-swinging tank job with a focus on resource management, burst damage, and proper application of frequent, short-duration defensive cooldowns. This strategy is used to take down very scary end game monsters in 30 seconds flat like Vrtra, Bahamut, and Dynamis Lord. The only downside is their low vitality. This helps alleviate Elvaans low dexterity, and therefore low accuracy. Offline. Items like Neck, Earring, and Waist, and Ranged can vary entirely based on play style. IX are replaced with Determination. This spell also generates very high amounts of Enmity and can be used as a way to get snap hate. option adds slightly more HP at the cost of about 0.2% DPS output. Here is a list of all the guides currenly on Eden. Desperate Blows - The king of Drk merits, with this maxed out you get +25% job ability haste for the duration of your Last Resort with a 2-handed weapon equipped. DRK fills additional roles in an auxiliary fashion such as: An off-tank (with some finagling as a main tank); Once you find a target, I wouldnt expect anything less than a swift victory. Thanks. result, indicated by red text in the melding menu. and Critical Hit replaced with Determination). max-level content as well as suggestions for older ultimate-difficulty linked below. We know that eventually Eden has plans to add Nyzul Isle, Salvage, Einherjar, Zeni NMs, and Dreamland Dynamis at some point. indicated by red text in the melding menu. Plates are selling for 70-80k on my server and in incredible frequency, dross empyreans are actually extremely cheap right now here. This page and some of the guides contained are a work in progress. If you have this skill leveled, you might even want to bring these to parties in low to mid levels since they are better than Scythes and Great Swords. High DMG whilst still retaining a fairly low delay. and our Speaking of Souleater, the next piece is your AF headpiece. weapon from the fight, use it with Direct Hit melded in the third slot. It can also be played as a tank at end game levels, relying on spells to generate aggro and mitigating damage with dread spikes, drains, and utsusemi. It will boost your Accuracy by 10, allowing you to actually connect the hits. Weapon Grade: B- release. Dreamland Dynamis will add Abyss Cape, which is insanely good for accuracy in your TP set, WS set, and even Magic sets. enjoys progging, optimizing, and instructing others on the job, and has This guide will cover basic endgame PLD/NIN gameplay for most encounters. These builds are current as of patch 6.3 and include sets for Dark Knight is iconic for 75 cap, sometimes for its great utility and sometimes for its borderline troll players. Souleater Recast - Lowers the recast of Souleater by a minute, putting it at 5:00 with full merits. Also like Warrior, many are simply not practical for general usage. FFXIclopedia is a FANDOM Games Community. and 120-second cooldowns and should minimize rotational drift. The last- and second-to-last steps of the Bozjan resistance relic offer Not sure how many people have done this, but I wanted to master DRK on an alt, to have a new job to play with. Imaginary situation was used to illustrate a method to min/max dps. This set has 407 accuracy with Hasso and Hume DEX. Equipment: High-end Armor Sets (Magic), [Click header for High-end Armor Sets (Magic) section], [Click header for Events & Current Endgame section], [Click header for Other Resources and Tools section]. A 2.40 GCD set is also provided for those who . This spell has a high level of skill expression, as the more TP the mob has the more TP you can take from it, so if you learn to read battle pacing and mob TP generation you can get some really nice Absorb TPs off. You may opt to use an Augmented Classical Ring of Fending instead of its TP set or any WS's ? Congratulations! Back Piece. Me, Id be Absorb-DEX all the way, but Im just an accuracy nut. 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). or is that just from using Drain 3? Dread Spikes is 100% based on your total HP so macroing in a ton of HP is the play. Ranger is the sub job of choice before Warrior! Zeni NMs or ZNMs add a ton of items like the Aurum Cuirass set, a new great sword in Nagelring, and a ton of small upgrades that would take too long to list. Enmity from gear caps at +100 but you don't really have to worry about that, it's impossible for Dark Knight in era. Recomended: 5 Desperate Blows, 1 Dark Seal, 4 Diabolic Eye. FFXIclopedia is a FANDOM Games Community. Youve acquired your first piece of AF. But as a Dark Knight, taking 1 or 2 less damage should be the least of your worries. multiple early tier clears and top parses under his belt. Please note: This is only a guide. it takes longer for a Great Sword to reach 100%+ TP than using a Scythe). (Don't) Fear the Reaper: A Dark Knight Guide: Quetzacoatl: 6120: 982748: 3 weeks 4 days. Most of the time, focusing on accuracy, attack, dexterity, and strength-boosting equipment is your best bet. Strategies and information in guides may not work for everyone. Take the item to Mighty Fist and then talk to Raibaht. NEVER go absolutely nuts in a party. This set is going to be the set you sit in when you are going to get hit, or just a standing around set for defensive purposes. This post introduced me to your YouTube channel! Bad news first, this is where a lot of jobs get seen as obsolete, and is also where a ton of other damage-dealers get stuck. Gift. Also most of the time Souleater is either deleting the mob or the mob is unable to act when being attacked via stuns so it doesn't matter if it's facing you. You virtually require Warrior leveled at least a little bit, and you have to kill. With a Scythe out you have access to Guillotine, one of the strongest weaponskills in the game. This is possibly one of the most trivial quests of all times. Overview of Job Abilities, Traits, and Spells. Namely Lv.60 when you finally get Guillotine. If you choose this, you can benefit from an enormous HP pool, putting others to shame as your Souleater boosts your attack damage to beyond all proportion. However, there may be differing opinions than those expressed in a guide. 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. Absorb-STR, DEX, and TP are great spells that can help boost either stat where you need it most. Also check the general/widget tips. with CRIT+DET on it. These are shown on the earring replaced with Skill Speed. Hidden Bonus: Increases physical accuracy too. Every race also gets "Race Specific Equipment", or "RSE", that will boost a race's stats to equal, or possibly even surpass other races. Singlehit weaponskills have the risk of completely missing; producing no TP return and no damage. Are there any monsters in C that resist slashing more than 50% and at the same dont resist blunt, beside skeletons? You will at least need to have a Haubergeon, a pair of Sniper or Woodsman ring and a life belt by level 60. one Direct Hit IX each replaced with Determination. Now lets say, for example you deal that same damage, have 1000 HP, and use Souleater. and second ring, respectively, but can be done on any other slots that won't set, and comfort should be the primary concern when choosing between them. Samurai is Drk's highest DPS sub job for normal play as a melee DPS. Also make sure to look me up on twitter and other social media for other final fantasy 11 related stuff.Thanks again and Ill see you guys in Vana'diel!Peace out Riki/Datsik Really comprehensive guide!