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

Yes I'm so happy I got a few pieces of Valor and Odyssean before this Dark Matter campaign. I got a decent accuracy aug on my Ody legs, and I'm using the feet as more of a casting piece due to the amazing Macc, Fast Cast and other things I got on there. Yet to get anything decent on Valor Legs though. So I'm working on it, but it's going to take some time.

I didn't build Ragnarok for no reason. There was a time I knew DRK needed Great Sword to be competitive, so I made one. Guess what happened? Adoulin came out and suddenly it was worthless if you could get Bereaver or a Senbaak Nagan. If I get my GS on Afterglow too, it won't matter which weapon type is better as I'll have a choice of both. Clearly that is the aim in the long run, but til then I need to focus on my newest weapon and ensure I get the best out of it.

Believe it or not, but there's only one guy I know who does BCNMs on a regular basis. And it seems whenever he's doing it I'm busy with a LS event, or I'm off the game entirely. I'm probably just going to wait til the next battlfield campaign and grind it out then. At least then I won't need to farm gil like last time. And it's fine because all I need to do in those fights is two rolls, perhaps a Haste spell if we have a DD which isn't BLU. It's very relaxing and easy, and I know this very well.

No offense to anyone who loves Asura, or moved there .. but I will never, ever go to Asura unless someone paid me a very large amount of real money to do so. Not because I think Asura sucks, but because I love Cerb and my Dad plays here. I wouldn't leave him, and he wouldn't leave his social LS for anything.

After grinding gil so hard for several months just to finish the Alex stage, I was shocked to see the new Afterglow stage be introduced. I was so burnt out I didn't want to play FFXI anymore. At the same time I wanted to finish my Lib. I took a short break, came back, and did just about anything I could to make money (except giving out "jobs" in the streets of Jeuno).

The battlefield campaign started up as well, so I did a mix of Salvage, Dynamis, Battlefields, and other things I don't want to disclose here. When I finished my AG stage I was like .. "phew, that's done, now I can take a month off and only log in for LS events". And that's what I did. I know some people have the patience to grind gil everyday, or do battlefields on a regular basis, but I don't. It's not laziness, I just hate repetitve things in general. I hate grinding. I know that's a really bad thing to say considering I've farmed up a Relic and a Mythic before ... but it's true. There's only so much I can take before I resent logging in. It's when FFXI feels like a third job (I have 2) that I end up leaving it alone and playing something else.

Sandraa, 9 out of 10 times you are utterly clueless as to what you are talking about.

Again here, you have literally no clue what you are talking about. First off, saying someone is lacking experience is your first sign of not knowing both you you are talking about or anything about the people.

I have nearly 7 years of experience running on drk, I have that same amount of experience beating bandwagon jobs on jobs others claimed couldn't keep up. I was the only person my shell let go to delve on drk during the mnk craze, I was the only person my shell would allow to go thf during the koga craze, I am currently keeping up with some blu on my rdm, mostly because I have MB sets and always use a nuke.

One of the number one reasons Saevel wins isn't just because he has more "experience," it is the level of gear. NQ and HQ gear have tier level worth of difference. You have never seen him or myself play. Furthermore you have never seen all three of us run together, finally you haven't seen all three of us with the same gear/buffs. Don't act like you know how we play. You have no clue who is aggressive in their play style, all you know is stuff you see on the forum.

Furthermore I came out and flat out said I had not been out there to test reso, one of the main reasons was because I had 2100 jp and put drk in storage to work on other jobs, I also said I went out to run AG Rag and AG Apoc and hit the same range on reso as Saevel was in doing with spikes of 48k using soul eater, which is something I have done without the use of soul eater and even posted a pic in this very forum. I also was able to prove my original statement, that Apoc can put out solid dmg, and I did prove this by being about to put out 26-32k Cross Reapers, again I didn't run soul eater.

You simply can not say blatantly un-thought ignorant statements when you have never played with anyone of us, and you don't pay attention to all the factors. Idiotic statements like this only make you look bad.

"If you have to ask how much a ZJ is...you can't afford it"

I hear you on Oseem augments though. That asshat just loves to give me the oddest things. The only V pieces I am content with are the body and feet. Mail is +10 STR, ACC +38, ATT +35 and feet are +7 AGI, ACC +34, ATT +32, DA +3. Keep getting really funky stuff on all my ody sets, sadly.

I agree, there's far too much "judging" going on here. Too many assumptions of what someone is or isn't. I have 12 years of experience on DRK. Give me the same gear and buffs as Saeval, and will I do just as well? Perhaps, or perhaps not. I like to think I'm an aggressive DD, and have good timing with skillchains. Perhaps he's better? I don't know. Even if you managed to get two players with the same buffs, same weapon, same gear, there's other factors to bring in too.

It doesn't always mean one DD is going to be better than the other on every fight. The only difference between a great DD and a good DD is a matter of seconds. Pressing the WS macro at the right time is all there is to it. Of course you need the right gear, and equipment changes, but if everyone was on an even playing field it only comes down to who can press a WS macro quicker.

Wowsers, I got accuracy +24 on my legs and thought that was great. I should log in and see if I can improve it.

Again, Wrong. Nobody is going to hold their tp til 300% for every reso they shoot out just to get 40-45k reso. Furthermore Saevel isn't even hitting all 40-45k, he clearly said he spiked 45k without Soul eater and a 48k with soul eater. And again, I have done the very same thing.
Also, if you aren't running sc dmg while putting out that kind of dmg, you should be on whm, you are slowing down the fight. I would rather have someone that closes sc with 30k reso than someone that holds tp to 300% for a 45k reso that doesn't sc.

Once you read ***like this...


You take whatever else he says with a grain of salt. /shrug

Pel. Stones dude!

Exactly, there's a lot more to it than some assume. Reso may be pumping out nice numbers, but skillchain damage is a thing too.

But at the end of the day numbers are numbers. You can smash these numbers out all day, but if the NM is too strong you could take hate and die. We should remember survivability is more important than killing weak stuff 1-2 minutes quicker. That's why I was considering making survival sets for my Lib DRK to give me an edge in dangerous situations over other DD.

Yeah I was really tempted to ignore him, but some people need to be flat out told they are clueless.

Yeah I think I'll wait til the campaigns over for that. This is my first time random augmenting things so it would be nice to see what I end up with.

And that Tenzen doesn't drop that damn necklace...ever.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

Huh what... I tank every fight I'm involved in now. I don't try, it's just what happens when you are in a super buffed fight.

Right now we are spamming the Reisenjima T2's Old Shuck and Gajasimha with an alliance (don't ask). Each fight is over with in 45s with our longest being a 55s fight. Everyone should have a -DT set, its absolutely standard in every tool kit. With one of those and a WHM you should be fine to just turtle up and ride out the danger.

Hey now, we use a full alliance for almost all clears! >.>

We tend to do the ninja/blu route for those guys, fights lasting about the same.

Never even introduced the GS vs Scythe debate. Go back and read, it wasn't me. I just wanted to hear what both sides have to offer.

No, what I did was argue Apoc and Lib held value as a DD

I highly doubt you are mixing Sulv+1 and Argosy +1, nobody in their right mind would mix hq abj gear with sulv, you would nerf your own dmg. Then again.... This is you we are talking about. Furthermore you are NOT hitting 30-35k Reso at 100% tp, not a chance in hell. Nobody is hitting 30-35k reso on 100% tp. Not you, not me, not Saevel, nobody. W. Ron bunnies don't have that much hp.
Again you don't listen nor pay attention, please stop wasting people's time with your useless crap being posted. I said flat out I was the only person in my shell that was allowed to come the underdog DD to events, that was because I was capable of still becoming the top DD even on underdog jobs. Oh and get this, when you actually can start dealing real damage on jobs like thf and drk, your friends don't want you to come geo, or cor, or anything else but that job. They want those fast wins.

On a final note, if I wasn't a team player, I woundn't have started a thread on SE forums about ways to make rdm offer more pt buffs. Cor wouldn't have been my first job leveled on this acnt, I wouldn't have leveled sch on this acnt. I wouldn't have a mule with both geo and cor leveled on it. I have many times offered to come another job and been told "no, come drk, we need your DD." Tell me how dumping more than 300 mil into a job, still offering to come a different job and showing up on the job requested is being selfish.

It is clear as day that you have no respect for anyone in the forums, much less have any clue about what you are talking about. Just stop.

FYI, we all remember this from the other day.


Shows you go rage/emo mode, also shows you don't go the job people tell you to go. Quit being a hypocrite.

Would also love to know how you are pulling those reso off with, what did you call it?
You told us point blank you are on the bad player group.

Anytime us big kids are talking you need to go outside and play with your toys. Now go eat your crayons and have some juice.

Sigh.

Should go back page and read what I've been saying, junior.

Also, outside of stroking a few resident DRK's off, your posts are as useless as coke *** on a Friday night at Dan Bilzerian's house.

You need to be respectful to people, stop making inaccurate judgments about people, that is the very problem I ran into with me not taking the time to go actually test reso. You simply can not state things without properly testing them or having the facts to back them up.

I don't think you have a clear idea of what was actually going on in the past 4 pages. I never once, nor did anyone else, once say Rag wasn't a great weapon and Reso wasn't a powerful ws. The entire convo was about the validity of Apoc/Lib as a DD weapon. Which obviously they are.

Do not talk about people, period. You don't have the facts to back anything up.

Definitely don't go comparing people because someone is JP or not, I have met plenty of good and bad JP players. In fact I have met less great JP players across 6 different servers than I have met great ones. That is stereotyping and blatant disrespectful.

You clearly don't listen, you are either trolling or just flat out dense.

Going to lay this out for you one final time, then I am done with you.

First off, I brought up your past post because it shows you have issues doing the same thing you are claiming other people to do.

Secondly, I said there was a high chance saevel would beat me to begin with, but I didn't claim it was due to "experience." I also said there is literally no way to know who is the best without everyone being on equal terms, gear/buffs not only that but you would have to run more than a few simple runs based off some nms are just straight ***.

Third, just because I show up a DD job and a lower DD can't come on DD because I am a stronger DD, does not mean I am not a team player. That means I am filling up a needed DD slot with a much stronger DD. If you or any other person gets bumped as a DD, that is yours or their fault for not stepping it up, not mine. That means if you can't step it up and aren't willing to come something else, you are not the team player, not me.

Fourth, I also said that I leveled cor and sch both on this acnt to fill support roles when needed. I also have a mule with support roles to fill when needed. I don't ALWAYS go drk, like you seem to have this delusion in your head.

Fifth, I repeat, you never hit 30-35k reso at 100% tp, even when you get to go on those 60 second zergs, nobody hits those numbers. Scarlet Deliruim only works for the next time you take dmg, not til the next time you recast it, in fact in most instances it is a wasted buff because you actually lose time in animation lock that you could be dealing dmg. Especially with Sulv, that is weaker than NQ Argosy.

Sixth, for the love of God and all things Holy. DO NOT COME TO ASURA, WE HAVE ENOUGH TROLLS ALREADY!