It provides increased acc as a job ability along with a evasion bonus. 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. And thanks! Happy to elaborate, i just need time to type it up. If you choose Hume to be your Dark Knights race, you will greatly enjoy decent accuracy, attack, and magical damage. maximum value on both substats. As with the 2.50 set, you can run a slightly faster speed for comfort at the Torcleaver is a one-hit attack, with a 60% VIT modifier that can actually be geared for, and deals a fair chunk of damage to boot. weapon from the fight, use it with Direct Hit melded in the third slot. 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. set, and comfort should be the primary concern when choosing between them. Replacing two Direct Hit melds with Skill Speed will bring you And though you have low HP, with Drain II later on, you can potentially increase your HP higher than even a Galkas. Other than the gloves, For more detail For those wishing to run 2.45. Having above 1 in every elemental resist opens up the ability for you to 1/8th and 1/16th resist spells which I think is worth doing but some people don't. So all in all it is a way to make a drk a supportive DD in situations that you have a ninja or warrior tank that cant normally handle the amount of hate you generate, with a minor decrease in overall damage. Hit and one Skill Speed materia in the ring and two Critical Hit materia in the This job is a "learn by doing" job for sure, you yourself need to figure out how to fit in a dread spikes between pulls without losing any DPS uptime, or when is appropriate to stun vs just allow things to go off so you can squeeze out more damage. This is exceptionally useful for boosting the damage of Souleater, in party play you could Drain II the mob before popping souleater for extra bonus HP% damage. Contents 1 Notes 2 Dark Knight Equipment Chart Notes this is a nice giude, ty for throwing out all that information, but it looks like your tp sets are /sam based. On this page, you will find the best gear and best-in-slot items for your option adds slightly more HP at the cost of about 0.2% DPS output. Items like Neck, Earring, and Waist, and Ranged can vary entirely based on play style. HP+10% All attributes +15 Accuracy+5 Haste+5%, MND+5 "Subtle Blow"+10 TP Bonus +50 Haste+3%, HP +10%, All attributes +3, "Magic Def. I own Liberator and Ragnarok Afterglows, and will eventually get Apoc when I stop being lazy. Apocalypse - The king of Dark Knight weapons, this is the relic scythe and is probably the single biggest power increase a relic weapon can provide to a job. This is a strange 2-hour ability to be honest, it's pretty weak for normal play just allowing you some cheeky healing every time you hit that is very unlikely to save you from death. Unrestricted Party and Minimum IL options enabled. threshold with the same substats can be substituted at no loss. I dont play enough to have a linkshell right now. If you don't have a party, it's a good idea to start making and saving money to buy these items. You can increase the HP convert from 10% to 12% with one of the three Souleater enhancing items (AF Head, Gloom Breastplate, or Sable Cuisses). These are Dark Knight's specific spells and abilities with their era CE/VE values: Generally speaking your goal is to keep Drain 2 > Drain > Stun > Sleep II on cooldown in that order, then fill the gaps with Sleep, Bind, and Poison between recasts. These three specific GCD speeds are chosen because they align well with 60- This set loses about 1.5% DPS compared to the 2.50 and 2.45 sets, and is and second ring, respectively, but can be done on any other slots that won't No one likes a Dark Knight that sacrifices all damage in order to support, but no one likes a Dark Knight that never supports either, balance is the key to this job. You must log in or register to reply here. Also check the general/widget tips. Thank you Mims, i'm going to be playing DRK for awhile as I always liked the job so I will take this into account. You can only get this quest once you are Lv.30 or higher. A 2.40 GCD set is also provided for those who . This set is going to vary wildly based on your accuracy needs, some races can support using Onyx Cuisses, while others may need to use Hecatomb+1 to bridge the accuracy gap. How do other DRKs handle Sheol C mobs that resist slashing? This is also true of multihit weaponskills, but far less likely. Drain II and Dread Spikes. Then, you restore that 100 HP and also deal all that extra damage. Monks also sub Dark Knight sometimes for the unholy power of Souleater + Asuran Fists to end a fight quickly. You do not have the skill ranks that Warrior does to make this viable. result, indicated by red text in the melding menu. loses around 1.5% total damage output compared to the other sets. 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]. This set is intended for compatibility with the UWU set and does not require I wouldn't use the set pictured as a guide of what exactly to wear, but options to combine into your own set to make one you like. I super appreciate it! A pretty weak ability, if you remember to use it while fighting any arcana-type mob you and your party members will have a chance to intimidate the mob. All FFXI content and images 2002-2023 SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD. Weapon Grade: B- Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! tome pants for savage release requires capping tomes on the week of normal mode For T2 Odin, refer to this page for battle pattern and rewards. I've been wanting to test out loxotic mace on DRK but not exactly sure where to start since we don't have access to black halo. It could also evoke memories of that one Dark Knight you partied with that just couldnt control his Souleater usage and constantly killed himself. Overview of Job Abilities, Traits, and Spells. Nice job. Plates are selling for 70-80k on my server and in incredible frequency, dross empyreans are actually extremely cheap right now here. For how long? This set replaces five Direct Hit X materia with Skill Speed in order to Endark effect. Great Swords are at the lower scale of damage over time and has a lower rate of TP gain over time (i.e. In this guide I cover three typ. Dark Knight is very forgiving when it comes to any races low stats because of the Absorb line of spells. Tredecim Scythe - This scythe is bad..currently. Dark Knight a.k.a. GCDs over the whole fight vs 2.45. Macro the Dexterity rings for melee then swap for Strength during a weaponskill. RuberCaput 2 yr. ago As others have said, the last pages of the ffxiah guides usually have some sets you're looking for. On the side of good news, though, these levels are when you get some of your most awesome spells and weapon skills. The last- and second-to-last steps of The main piece would be Ares's Cuirass which gives the max amount of STR/Attack a piece an get, good for single hit WSes like Catastrophe or Spinning Slash, and also is a great idle piece with the refresh built into it. with CRIT+DET on it. The reason being, it doesnt add anything to your overall damage over time or anything else for that matter. Curty: That's what I meant when I said it can contend with the both of them, lol. This is possibly one of the most trivial quests of all times. Nasomi Community FFXI Server Board index International Jobs Dark Knight, Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 0 guests. compatibility with the sets for other tank jobs. Its a pretty decent Scythe. If you do not have a Bozjan resistance relic weapon, simply use any weapon Bind (20) & Sleep (30): If you have Enfeebling skilled up this can be useful to cast in weird situations, like a mob link or over pull. a 2.45 GCD rather than 2.50. The choice is up to the player. 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. Examples of fights you would use this on are Tiamat, KS99 Wyrm, and Bahamut. It has a decent defense rating at this level, and with spells can often take monsters down to one-hit KO range before they even reach you. The last- and second-to-last steps of the Bozjan resistance relic offer FFXIclopedia is a FANDOM Games Community. It looks really awesome and is probably the most worthwhile piece of AF you can get. Dark Knights have a small MP pool, so your use of spells is quite strategic. Though if you have decent gear, you can probably tank Lv.10-15. You can 4-step (and more), and it will always beat a Liberator if you're geared/have enough buffs to do it consistently; which is most of the time. won't overcap on the chosen substat as a result, indicated by red text in the 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. Adding a little bit of finesse to the powerful brute that is Dark Knight, a Mithra Dark Knight plays Dark Knight very well. This includes daggers, swords, axes, great swords, great axes and scythes. Thank you in advance and again sorry if its been discussed before. Thanks. seems the one on ffxiah seems to be super old. Spiral Hell is very potent when using the Thief subjob. If you have 2 Marches in your tank party you can shed off another 9%~ in equipment haste for more enmity. You badly need to be doing both if you care about this job. That's the inevitable direction that comment turns it, though. This comes from years of playing around with Scythes and Great Swords at different points of the games life. optimum efficiency. Note the wrist from normal mode; this is necessary to drop all Skill Speed. The NQ is super affordable, and the HQ is a little pricy but is not impossibly expensive. Alternatively, simply replace one Critical Hit with Determination in In Sky, the Dark Knight will be focusing more on stunning things like Meltdown, that can deal heavy damage to the party if not stunned in time. This set has similar theoretical output to the 2.45 set, but tends to miss Unfortunately, youd be better off with the Scorpion Harness at that level, and at Lv.59, you'll be wearing the Haubergeon body piece. For every HP drain II returns over your max HP, it will temporarily increase your max HP for 1 minute. Absorb-TP (45): This is a a fun spell, it allows you to steal TP from the enemy and give it to yourself. The Head has some use as a WS piece if you lack other options, and the body is mostly not good for Drk but can see use if you absolutely don't need accuracy in your body slot. One cool thing most people don't know about this ability is that with 5/5 you don't need to use Hasso while it's up (because job ability haste caps at 25%) so you can use Seigan+Third Eye for defense. Notable Weaponskills: None, Weapon Grade: E Weapon Grade: C This can be merited in a few different ways to transform the ability which will be covered in the merits section. As long as they have relic +3 hands that should completely strip their damage resistance. ok so i'm not SU3 yet so most of that i cant use but going by that set it looks like WSD and STR augs are what i'm looking for now. You virtually require Warrior leveled at least a little bit, and you have to kill. 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. do -10% PDT on cape instead of -dt you can drop defending ring for another moonlight. with CRIT+DET on it. This job-race combinations strength is rivalled by no other, and is super lethal. available. Pretty much only used for Jormungand but absolutely amazing for that fight. These sets are specifically for The Weapon's Refrain (Ultimate), abbreviated Just use a Kraken Club and Haste/HP gear. The only downside is that it doubles your recasting time for all spells, so turn it off before using any spell. Two sets, only piece of JSE being +2 neck: How do other DRKs handle Sheol C mobs that resist slashing? Can you imagine why? Dark Knight has a very low Marksmanship skill (E), but honestly skill levels don't matter too much until the 50s or 60s. Instead, Dark Knight tank is played in the same way that RDM/NIN or NIN/DRK is played at end game: you spam high hate generation spells to keep the mob's attention on you. Very expensive and very good, this food pairs super well with Apocalypse when spamming the attack hungry Catastrophe but also does great with Guillotine and basically anything. Dread Spikes is 100% based on your total HP so macroing in a ton of HP is the play. Having some trouble with my Entropy set atm. one Direct Hit IX each replaced with Determination. Even though youd probably hit for zero damage base, youd still deal 100 damage through Souleater. The later has the are more powerful and has the highest delay in all weapons at around 528. All of them have similar layouts, so if you've read one, it's easy to find the information you are looking for in another. Apoc VS Calad: Fenrir.Puciato: 34: 2262: 4 years 1 month. Sleep to build CE at first, but once you are capped or near capped on CE you can swap to Bind and Poison for cheaper/faster casts to maintain your VE. UCOB syncs to item level 345, and synced gear must be item level 470 or If you can't get an item with Fire Resist, equip whatever your best item is from the MDT set. 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. He will then send you to a Galka named Mighty Fist in the Darksteel Forge. Good luck sir! This is good sometimes, and literally useless sometimes, and deciding between this and Last Resort Recast is a challenge all Dark Knight's face. A guide for the content can be found links below. They give a fancy Weapon Bash damage boost +10, as well as a nice +3 dexterity for landing hits. It reads like a seasoned veteran gently mentoring you. Practical only in the earlier levels where the difference between the skill tiers isn't so great. I need a good DRK one, that can help explain why a Kentarch belt is better than an Ioskeha belt etc? and Minimum IL options enabled. Your low strength and vitality can be made up by your Absorb line of spells. BiS sets do; the damage difference in this case is only about 0.4%. Flexibility is the key to Dark Knights usefulness, in general the job struggles to keep up with the best DD jobs like Samurai or Warrior, but people still love to have them around just for the mixture of support and damage. 5. . 2.45 should feel more familiar to those experienced with Dark so i'ma try Drk out. TP set or any WS's ? But it's easy to find out what people think about it .. it's a glorified skillchain machine. Dark knight beginner's guide finally out! At Lv.20 Ranger becomes an acceptable sub job due its +10 accuracy bonus. Flamma Ring is a good choice instead of Rajas as well. The DPS I know weapons have been discussed again and again but I was just curious on thoughts for all of them. so is argosy +1 set used for anything still these days? 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. Gift. Equipment: High-end Armor Sets (Offensive). These substitutions are shown on the weapon and earring, respectively, but can Last Resort (15) 5:00 Recast - Increases your attack by 15% and lowers your defense by 15%. Does anyone have a set for these club WS's? Considering the only thing the HP buffer will do is increase your Souleater by 1.5 damage, its not that worth it. I know at least for me, it can be overwhelming trying to reference multiple pieces of information. Im kidding, of course. Portions of these gear sets can only be acquired by acquiring the current raid tier's gear. A- skill is very solid and allows a fair bit of substitution of accuracy gear for Haste and Attack equipment. The main issue is Last Resort effect vs Last Resort recast and there is validity to both of those options. Anything that raises your HP can be very useful for Soul Eater. helm. You might be asking why?, and the answer is Guillotine damage. the feet. boosts to your damage. that won't overcap on Determination as a result, indicated by red text in the Your main support job. Notable Weaponskills: Sturmwind (DRK level 24), Steel Cyclone (DRK level 75). This is such a strong spell and learning to use it correctly is integral to being a useful Dark Knight. This section will lay out specific best-in-slot gear configurations for Dark With weaponskills this will trigger on every hit of a WS, so if you use a 6 hit WS you will drain 60% of your entire HP pool, so be careful. (Only pulling without generating magic aggro). Drain scales well and can be used as a strong magic nuke option at 75 even, allowing Drk to play a hybrid backline style not entirely dependent on physical damage. And if thats not enough to make you sub this, you get Meditate at Lv.60. With Haste on, you can attack a lot too. FINAL FANTASY is a . So you can use the gear suggested for a Torcleaver/Greatsword build(Resolution builds use another set thou)For Ambuscade GreatSword Nandaka Ground strike build.for Savage blade build with Naegling, for Ambuscade Scythe(Drepanum) Spiral Hell buildfor Apoclypse Relic scythe Catastrophe buildfor Anguta and cross reaper spam(entropy is another ws set)All the scythe builds for ws use ratri gear 4/5 or 3/5, but these sets also work just fine.So use whichever weapon you prefer, but this is mainly for the Great Axe build and it's a strong one!0:00 Intro1:38 Ranting3:23 Intro continues7:26 Drain 3 set13:44 Drain3 Example Self SC14:20 Drain3 Weaponbash+Keen Edge14:47 Drain3 \"Free nuke\"15:27 Drain3 In Dynamis-Divergence talk and tips16:20 TP Set22:43 Hybrid Set24:21 Armor Break WS SET26:23 Steel Cyclone, Upheaval \u0026 Fell Cleave WS Set30:45 Dread Spike Set31:18 Endark Set34:22 Self Skillchain Opener34:50 Self Skillchain Other35:15 OutroWeapon bash+Ignominy Gauntlets Skillchains for different weapons to use drain III Magic burst easy on: https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/53584/catastrophe-weapon-bash-ignominy-gauntlets23Link to more DRK gearsets that you can aim for after this: https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/50426/high-end-sets-advicesuggestionsideaslua/Pretty outdated, has some good info and some gear still relevant of course:https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/35174/dont-fear-the-reaper-a-dark-knight-guideOther helpful beginner linkshttps://www.bg-wiki.com/bg/Quickstart_1-119_GuideRuaumokos DRK guide!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuETOQ_uXwYDark knight Gearswap Lua filehttps://github.com/Selindrile/GearSwapIf you want to see me play live I stream over on Twitch multiple times a week, make sure to check me out over there at: https://www.twitch.tv/rikipediagamingOr you can catch me Live here on YouTube!Social mediahttps://www.instagram.com/rikipedias/https://twitter.com/Rikipedia1https://www.facebook.com/Rikipediagaming--------------------------------------Join our discord channel!https://discord.gg/FcZANkMarz----------------------------------------Support and donate------------------------------------Paypalhttps://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_donations\u0026business=JDAVLD4NPV5YW\u0026currency_code=SEK\u0026source=url----------------------------------------Patreonhttps://www.patreon.com/rikipediagamingIf you enjoyed this video and found it helpful, smash that like and subscribe button and leave a comment. a tiny bit more HP with a negligible hit to DPS. FANTASY is a registered trademark of Square Enix Co., Ltd. (Don't) Fear the Reaper: A Dark Knight Guide. Dark Knight abilities generate a lot of hate when used. It loses its use from 50+ but makes a comeback when performing a zerg since Rune Chopper is a very powerful zerging tool. Also like Warrior, many are simply not practical for general usage. meet currently than on release due to potency and system changes, so simply See the Zerging section for more information on this playstyle. It also allows you to upgrade your relic armor to +1 versions which gives additional dark magic skill and stats. Again, youll be hard-pressed finding parties, but now youll be even better in them. Last Resort Recast - This lowers Last Resort's recast down to 4:10 with max merits, which sounds great, more Last Resort who could be mad at that. 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. multiple early tier clears and top parses under his belt. CRIT+SKS piece if you wish to run a 2.45 GCD rather than 2.50. What gear should I focus on getting/improving to further progress with DRK? Your first step to get your Raven Scythe is to go to Bastoks Metalworks and talk to Raibaht in Cids lab. As an Elvaan Dark Knight, you will be one of the deadliest of them all. Ambu/Escha/+2 AF is the general area of gear I'm working with atm. Souleater and Last Resort are great abilities to spike your hate at the start of a fight, after a hate reset, or when you need to rip the mob off someone - just remember to cancel them. Additionally replace the chest or pants with a synced Just check the set I posted a while back. And how well exactly does afterglow calad hold up? haha well i'm at work atm and i've yet to unlock it i'm sure i have a decent amount of gear for it from other jobs or can get it atleast. Expect a lot of foes to fall at your hands when that occurs. Warrior gives a nice boost to strength and dexterity, plus a trait for defense boost, and one of the most useful damage-dealing job abilities in the game: Berserk. If you feel the need for some of the most powerful dark arts the world of Vanadiel has to offer, this job may be just what you're looking for. Usually you will want to use this on cooldown just for more stats. Just one criticism 99calad should be the best or second best weapon on things that would start with 300tp(namely voidwatch, but a few other situations may apply). This set is used against mobs you specifically know will use fire spells/abilities, with this set and some buffs like Barfire/Fire Carol you can reduce the incoming damage to nearly 0. This power comes from the spell Utsusemi, both versions of it, which puts a buff on you that absorbs incoming damage. For more information, please see our If you need less accuracy you can use items like Bomb Core and Cerb+1/Foragers Mantle. As mentioned in the Blood Weapon paragraph, this can be combined with that ability for some crazy shit. or is that just from using Drain 3? Samurai is Drk's highest DPS sub job for normal play as a melee DPS. Speaking of Souleater, the next piece is your AF headpiece. This is also the sub job you will use for any tanking. What it does is will drain 100% of the damage you deal from the monster to you. These are shown on the weapon and rings, B- skill means that you will have to sacrifice some Haste and Attack for Accuracy gear, producing less DoT in the long run. Scythes are split into two types: Zaghnal and Scythe. 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. In Lv.75 end-game scenarios, having your club skill high can help too. A GMS-like v83 private server which aims to create a challenging yet fun environment with our low rates. 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. Combine with the fact that they have higher.