(Don't) Fear The Reaper: A Dark Knight Guide

I'm late on this.

But good find on the DS 5/5, Relic head, and gear sets.

I guess since I don't have Misanthropy, I'll use Dacnomania for Drain3. Glad I can finally drop DE, its pretty worthless. I only merited it (1) for the safety blanket, but the -%HP is actually more harmful than the accuracy is.

Adjusting my sets accordingly.

Side note: Why are we not using empyrean legs for Nether Void? Is that only enhanced macc?

We are, just use it for Nether Void, then your magic set for spells.

Ok so DSNV = relic head/empy legs for activation and cast, or just the head for casting?

Most of the time, I'm not trying to use spells on anything that would matter because it will miss. Though I should probably remove all that silly black gadling gear set and just use macc.

I've been spamming the regular ambuscade on my own and got Sulevia sollerets. I'd love to do Ambuscade (intense) on higher levels with other people and grab Gallantry to get the +1 set but seems like they have their own parties and I don't see anyone recruiting. Might have to stick to the NQ.

I'm on rhapsody of vanadiel final boss atm and I just can't kill it as DRK. My trusts are getting killed way too fast and boss tend to one shot me too. I'll probably have to gear my NIN too if I want to clear this content.

Thanks for the tip tho !

Legs just for JA, Head needs to be on for the duration boost.

DSNV activation macro -> emp legs only

then you put relic head in your Drain or Absorb spell set.

What server are you on?

We are on Asura!

no SS, But its not to hard to imagine that at capped haste you are swinging at 1.43 sec / round. Then add in all your multi-hit gear and you should avg close to 1.5 attack a round for an avg drk. You can start to see you approach really close to 1 attack a second (actually more). Thats good enough for this paper math. Did teles yesterday and was 1100-1200 base hits, so lets take low end 1100+3300 = 4400/2 = avg of 2200 per hit per second :D

I would post the video but I died so fast haha, normally dont die to fast but had a pld whos been mia for months tank it, little rusty it seems. Anyhow In that video I get some cool 9k dmg rounds and 50k+ torcs, (avg was 30k over fight). calad is a powerhouse.


1. They are side grades really, Caro will produce a better avg, fotia will 1% of the time be great :D The bigger question is do you need fotias acc? If so use it, if not decide which of the above is better for you.

2. Thats just a wall of excuses, make groups and get it done. If none are really doing it, that means all want/need it. Be a leader. You have geo, so go that and burn some trees down, you will want 2 valo bodies, one for DA one for STP, and then get Omen body which solo you could do in a week probably. Quicker now with omen update coming. Argosy is a GS thing not scythe really. The af+3 stuff all is scythe oriented.

3. The ring is BiS, but not many (myself included) are willing to have minimal gains for ws, when there other rings offer so much more, so its normally not added. If you have the means to +1, then its a different story as the +1 is amazing.

Bleh im an idiot. I quoted the wrong person. I know you guys are on Asura. My question was for the new guy. Mistake my bad.

Thanks for the information though. Appreciated.

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What server are you on, cubia***

Yeah.... you and the rune kept healing it. And someone was lacking on cure spells in the pt... You two and your damn light sc...

edit: calad exceeded my original expectations from months ago when we were talking about it's validity on drk. I am hoping to get enough hmp to wrap up calad and redemption. Almost time for me to start working on drk again, fn aza beating me in dps.... not cool yo...


I know everyone tends to flip ***when this word shows up but.... "merc"
Gil is stupid easy to make and if you aren't finding the group you run with quite ready for t3, just drop the gil for a merc. I did it plenty of times, I still do it when I am too lazy to farm pop items, or flat sick of the nm.

Do what it takes. Sometimes it isn't the most pleasing route.

Not sure if the message was for me but I am on Carbuncle.

Ah :(

I was gonna say if you were on Asura we could do some of that tonight.

I'm sure you could shout during peak hours to see if someone would be nice enough to help you get some HQ gear. You could also try posting in the carbuncle forums to alert someone that you need assistance.

I could give it a shot yes. I've worked on it today and I have a full ignominy set +1. Managed to solo the last boss of rhapsody of vanadiel (as DRK and 5 trusts). I'll try to get more gear/ask for help etc.

And of course, I'll keep my eyes on this thread. :)

Aza you can share the video to my inbox! I wont laugh I swear =) The tough spot for me is all my close friends are here on Sylph but they don't play much so I find myself doing stuff alone A LOT. So I do die fast, more often than I would like to admit. lol If it wasn't for them I would just server jump and come chill with you guys and see all this stuff first hand. Plus since you guys would destroy me in DPS I would LIVE LONGER! ;)

1. Ok, understood.

2. I want to know what is good to wear to go get that stuff. "Get er done" is what I want to do, but I want a good equip set to do it. The whole reason I'm gearing up is to have a good enough set to fight the mobs that drop these bodies.

3. +1 seems like a lot of annoying questing.

That's the catch 22- you don't have the gear to farm some of the stuff, solo at least. But you can certainly team up and get an omen buddy or two to get cards for body. You can certainly form a shout group for duke vepar for argosy body. That's totally within your control. Though you won't be able to do much to him on drk in your current state, you have other jobs that can make the challenge worthwhile. You don't need to do the content in Drk to get the gear.

And since you brought up paying someone to merc....spare yourself the excuse that you can't afford something. Ambuscade exists every month and has 80~ million gil worth of rewards. Salvage, dynamis, also exists. If you can pay someone to merc argosy you can pay someone to merc valorous, but you don't have to.

Geomancer is an excuse to join content. If you're stubborn and want to join solely on Drk, then you'll need to work your easy through the ranks of gear progression before you can tackle yakshi spam. But don't fool yourself in thinking there's an honor system for Drk, our any job. You don't have to be in the job to do said content. That's just being dense. You can be a corsair and farm white mage gear.

So..... The set bonus's are nice for the acc. But overall what a dry update for drk lol...


ALL NEW DRKS CAN GET FULL FLAMMA AND SULVEIA THIS MONTH

Damn I purchased the full sulevia's set right before the update (NQ). But I'm only doing Ambuscade on my own and getting enough Hallmarks for HQ might be difficult.

Thanks for telling us tho !

Edit : they're asking undead kills to spam the Intense Ambu. Any tips as to do it as fast as possible ? Undead / Elementals located right next to a survival guide for example.

Edit 2 : damn, I gave the new intense ambuscade a shot and thought it'd be the same mob but they're 3 and bravura just literally one shotted my PLD and I was next, haha. Guess I'll have to do VE run for 50 hallmarks each. ^^;

There' a proto-waypoint which ports you to the West Ronfaure entrance to Bostaunieux Oubilette. Tons of undead in there.

Ru Aun Gardens is infested with elementals. There are 5 homepoints there

Sometimes it takes a day or two to figure out best strategy on new Ambuscades.

So Buukki pretty much summed it up right about.... here

Nobody, and I repeat NOBODY, likes playing a job they are forced on, just to work on a job they prefer. However if you can find some small enjoyment on other jobs, you will progress fast enough it won't matter.

I highly suggest leveling whm or sch, I hate both of them, but I am a terrible example, I hate most jobs in the game. That being said, I tell you whm or sch because there is always a shortage of them in the game, seems like everyone and their grandma has idris geo now, so it isn't as invite friendly as it used to be. When I swap off my preferred jobs it is mostly to blm for events, otherwise I sch or rune for pick up groups because it is a fast invite. Even then we are still looking for a whm half the time.

Now that story time is over, unless you have a massive amount of game time to play and feel like doing things the hard way, you need to level/gear sch, whm, and blm. That is the fastest possible route to gearing what you enjoy.

Unfortunately it isn't the best idea to try and go drk in a group without all the gear for it. The dps on drk is terrible until really geared up, better off doing support or running up a blm really quick to make sure they are quick and easy kills.

Bit disappointed because I've soloed 18x Ambuscade (Regular) on Normal 18 times today just to get my feet +1 Sulevia and to my surprise, the set is not available this month... Flamma is though.

Should I grab all +1 tickets and wait till Sulevia set +1 is avaiable or is Flamma set+1 better ?

Edit : nevermind, just checked the feet +1 ticket and it only grants access to this month's sets, meaning I'm screwed and have no hope of getting Sulevia set+1. Damn....

You can still get Sulevia +1 from buying Ambuscade Vouchers +1 with Gallantry. It will just take longer than obtaining Flamma +1.

Aim for both sets.

Sadly I am soloing Ambuscade. I was planning to do 145 runs of Ambuscade (Regular, Normal) on my own to get full Sulevia +1 but if that's really with gallantry, I won't be able to do it. I tried Intense Ambuscade on very easy on my own and there are 3 mobs now instead of one previously and I cannot solo it anymore. Guess I'll only be able to get Flamma +1 set once I've done the 130 runs left...

Edit : and just figured that even if I do duo regular Ambu on normal, you get 10 gallantry... I am not even going to count how many runs I'd need to get the +1 set or I'm going to cry haha.

I'll try to get Flamma +1 and deal with it. Nothing much I can do.

Are all parts of Flamma +1 that great or do I only need specific parts ?

I would say Head, Body and Legs are rather invaluable. Hands you'll want Emicho/Emicho+1 for Store TP and High-Acc Builds. I don't think Flamma Feet can overtake the potential that Valorous Feet and Carmine/Carmine+1 serve. However, it may help to get those other pieces if you're strictly going solo, especially until you find success in obtaining Emicho/Valorous/Carmine.

I would still encourage trying to find a party to farm Gallantry, even if it's a pick-up group. The opportunity to obtain both sets might not be for long, and this month's Volume 2 is stupidly easy.

@ cubia59 and others in his position ~

You are never forced to be a drk, if atm you have such a low quality drk you cannot do a PUG and spam N with other newer players to get decent gallanrty etc on V1, this is my suggestion.

Level another job, one that caters to a group. This can be atm GEO, ***** WHM ***** or even PLD (low lv of gear to tank decent). All 3 of these are always in demand, take little gear to start, and will allow you into fights where drk cant be anyhow (manaburn etc).

The sets are just to good to pass up, and a player in ffxi in 2017 cant be a "1 job" person, you wont enjoy the game and will quit.

Unless you're Jimothy. Then Rdm is all you need.

even jim has run and cor!

*** that, I went PUP to almost everything. I think I tanked once on my half geared RUN (at the time) when a PLD disconnected.

Unless you're me.
=P