[dev1113] Job Adjustments: Dancer

Are you implying that 4 EP mobs are difficult? /confused

I prioritize killing over procing.

That's fine, but if I have more than 2 mobs attacking me, it's doing nothing but lowering my efficiency if I don't get rid of one as fast as possible. If it gets proc'd, it gets proc'd. If it doesn't, oh well.

<.< >.>

Regardless, sabre dance is only useful when curing will never be a necessity. This is what warriors are for. Sabre Dance update I love, but it's trash solo. It's like a WHM soloing without white magic.

You have curing with you, (pocket noble tunic wearing taru) it's optimal to have 5/5 sabre dance. Even if you were 5/5 Fance Dance, which would be silly, it's "icing on the cake" is still more effective then 5% more samba duration. 5% of 15 seconds is -_- tho too.

Agree to disagree!

I virtually full-time saber dance and I don't have a pocket mage. Prior to transferring, most of the time I was duoing with a second Dancer. Who was also full-timing saber dance.

Things that are dead don't hit you.

(Neither of us would use shadows, DNC/THF and DNC/RDM (for haste, because oynos is lame).

We were using Haste Samba.

You can use spellcast to automatically cancel Saber Dance if your HP is critical and you try to waltz, you know.

You can click it off manually too.

I just don't consider it legit gameplay unless people actually do the stuff that was designed to do in the game lol. Kinda sad that people have to do it via spellcast lol.

I just don't consider it legit gameplay unless people actually do the stuff that was designed to do in the game lol. Kinda sad that people have to do it via spellcast lol.

Because we all use spellcast.

I don't consider transportation legit unless you're using the same methods cavemen used, like walking. It's kinda sad that some people have to do it via a bus lol.

Saving someone 3 keystrokes is hardly a big deal, the comment about doing it manualy was more about how


You were saying this as though only spellcast uses can manage doing it. For the record I don't use spellcast either, not useing it doesn't make anyone special it just meens they will be either a bit less efficent (like me) or have quick fingers and very organized macros.

If you're using windower and not spellcast, you can download the Cancel plugin and you can make a macro to drop specific buffs.

NO MATTER WHICH ROLE ONE IS PORTRAYING AS A DANCER, YOUR GOAL IS TO MAKE AS FEW OFFENSIVE SACRIFICES AS POSSIBLE WHILE STILL EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY MEETING THE DEMANDS OF YOUR CURRENT POSITION IN THE GROUP.

Allow me to clarify, because it may seem out of place for a main healing dancer, for example, to worry about his or her offenses. As a dancer, you are a front-line class. You must justify your presence on the front line. As a main-healing dancer, if you are not contributing a worthwhile amount of damage to the party, then you are just a gimped white mage who is forced to stay at range, and increases the enemy's rate of TP gain for a less-than-favorable damage tradeoff. Why would you bring a front-line supporter who offers less support than a back-line supporter and contributes poorly to the front line? Well, you wouldn't, and that's the point. Similarly, while soloing, you want to optimize your damage output while keeping it balanced with your survival. In other words, you want to be just defensive enough -- if you're more defensive than you need to be, well, that's just wasted defensive effort that could have been put into offense. It's rather appropriate that dancers are subject to a perpetual balancing act, don't you think?