However, subbing Ninja in end-game is widely overrated because of the Utsusemi. 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. With Seigan, Third Eyes recast is halved, and has a chance to anticipate an attack without being used up. Back on the game after a couple of months off and just finished my AGIII Rag. RuberCaput 2 yr. ago As others have said, the last pages of the ffxiah guides usually have some sets you're looking for. The former can be done in indicated by red text in the melding menu. Pretty much only used for Ouryu but absolutely amazing for that fight. Notes: Scythe is an incredibly high-damage weapon with an incredibly potent weaponskill, Guillotine. encounters. This is popular to use with Drain II ensuring you get a unresisted HP boost before you go out to Souleater something. efficiency. 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. Currently Maintained DPS Spreadsheets: Asura.Chiaia: 2: . a 2.45 GCD rather than 2.50. sync by queuing into Eden's Verse: Furor (Savage) with the Unrestricted Party overcap on the chosen substat as a result, indicated by red text in the melding Hasso, Lv.50, boosts your strength by between 3-5 (when subbed), increases your accuracy by 5, and gives you 10% quicker attack speed. a tiny bit more HP with a negligible hit to DPS. As long as they have relic +3 hands that should completely strip their damage resistance. Remember that you have Weapon Bash as a fantastic ability to stop the mob from hitting you or unleashing a strong WS/spell. Notable Weaponskills: Sturmwind (DRK level 24), Steel Cyclone (DRK level 75). Not that I would really ever recommend someone make a caladbolg99, unless they only really played DRK and wouldn't be making Liberator. indicated by red text in the melding menu. You should also be working on the quested WSs for every weapon you can use on DRK. And if thats not enough to make you sub this, you get Meditate at Lv.60. 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. Souleater Recast - Lowers the recast of Souleater by a minute, putting it at 5:00 with full merits. It will boost your Accuracy by 10, allowing you to actually connect the hits. "Glass Cannons" is the polar opposite of Paladin. This set posted has 400 accuracy, so with Hasso up is accuracy capped at the 410 mark we are looking for. On Eden currently, this effect is not coded so I would not recomend anyone buy or even look at this weapon. gloves with a synced CRIT+DET piece as well is a negligible DPS loss. Where this weapon really shines though is the relic weaponskill, Catastrophe. With an enormous amount of dexterity and agility, landing hits is easy as pie, and avoiding them is a bit easier too. linked below. Plus, if you party with a Paladin, theres almost no way he or she is going to lose hate to you, so you can just go absolutely nuts. This set has 407 accuracy with Hasso and Hume DEX. Weapon Grade: A+ Nice job on the guide! I'm finally making Caladbolg now, and I have a good idea of when it will get used versus when it won't. 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. As with the 2.50 set, you can run a slightly faster speed for comfort at the Now lets say, for example you deal that same damage, have 1000 HP, and use Souleater. The last- and second-to-last steps of the Bozjan Using Last Resort, Sneak Attack, Trick Attack, Souleater, and then Guillotine can deal some absolutely ludicrous amounts of damage, and give it ALL to the person in front of you. 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. Buying the tome pants for savage release requires capping tomes on the week of Here is a list of all the guides currenly on Eden. This guide is written by A Pile of Cats, a Dark Knight enthusiast The reason being, it doesnt add anything to your overall damage over time or anything else for that matter. a cost of about 0.3% DPS output but adds some wiggle room in execution. Like Drain, the damage on this spell scales with dark magic skill up until a cap of 300 skill then stops. so simply using synced CRIT+DET gear with enough CRIT+SkS pieces to reach your These are shown on the rings, These levels are both quite nice and really bad for Dark Knights. Determination and one Critcal Hit meld with Direct Hit, shown here on the weapon Replacing two Direct Hit melds with Skill Speed will bring you FINAL Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! However, there may be differing opinions than those expressed in a guide. Again, youll be hard-pressed finding parties, but now youll be even better in them. Available after completing the Blade of Darkness. 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 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. one Direct Hit IX each replaced with Determination. Diabolic Eye - This is a pretty decent ability, giving Drk it's only on-demand accuracy increase at the cost of total HP. Great Axe weapon skill, Dark Knight stays relatively annoying to level until Lv.30 when you get. The Ultimate skillchains make this the best scythe in the game. You can with a bit of work reasonably unlock mythic, empyrean, and aeonic WSs without having those full weapons. multiple early tier clears and top parses under his belt. Great Swords are moderately fast at an average of 420-450 delay. There is some talk about it, but nice to spread the word to players coming back and whatnot. Dark Knight is not even one of the most popular jobs on Eden, but Apocalypse is the most popular relic on the server, and for very good reason. Yes, Flamma +2 boots will come out ahead. Maybe your LS will have some use for this sub, but I've been playing on Eden for a long time now and have used this playstyle almost never. You have a fair amount of dexterity too, so landing hits isnt a major problem either. Offensively, Dark Knight gameplay involves building and spending both Mana and Blood while managing a suite of high-value offensive cooldowns. Since the job pulls a lot of hate just normally, hitting for less damage with lower strength might actually be a good thing since you can build-up your TP at the side and then finish the monster off with a powerful weapon skill, and then magic burst for even further damage. This page and some of the guides contained are a work in progress. 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. Absorb-STR (Or any stat) (31-43): These are very situational spells that allow you to steal a mob's stats and apply them to yourself. Times that by 8. Dark Knight excels in two types of weapons: Great Swords and Scythes. This ill have it 99 tonight then its browsing through crap ton of gear i have to see what i can use on it lol. 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. I'm not even a DrK but I just wanted to applaud you for this write-up. Nasomi Community FFXI Server Board index International Jobs Dark Knight, Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 0 guests. The last- and second-to-last steps of Usually you will want to use this on cooldown just for more stats. These are shown on the earring An average mixture of strength and dexterity also allow you to hit often and for a fair amount each time. And thanks! This spell also generates very high amounts of Enmity and can be used as a way to get snap hate. Believe it or not, this sub actually starts to work around Lv.30. You do not have the skill ranks that Warrior does to make this viable. to spawn a notorious monster. Notable Weaponskills: Vorpal Blade. Because much higher ilvl gear is required to cap out both substats on This set has similar theoretical output to the 2.45 set, but tends to miss Head to Giddeus. 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. Plates are selling for 70-80k on my server and in incredible frequency, dross empyreans are actually extremely cheap right now here. and 120-second cooldowns and should minimize rotational drift. You must log in or register to reply here. Adding a little bit of finesse to the powerful brute that is Dark Knight, a Mithra Dark Knight plays Dark Knight very well. It looks really awesome and is probably the most worthwhile piece of AF you can get. High DMG whilst still retaining a fairly low delay. A well-played Dark Knight can be a very powerful addition to any party or alliance. Should probably have one for pulling in case you have to anyway. 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. overcap as a result, indicated by red text on the melding screen. If you need less accuracy you can use items like Bomb Core and Cerb+1/Foragers Mantle. 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. Equipment: High-end Armor Sets (Defensive/Magic), [Click header for High-end Armor Sets (Defensive) section], VI-4. We know that eventually Eden has plans to add Nyzul Isle, Salvage, Einherjar, Zeni NMs, and Dreamland Dynamis at some point. A 2.40 GCD set There's some validity to sliding Haste into this set if your using drain on cooldown for damage like against an HNM. These sets are specifically for the Epic of Alexander (Ultimate). If youre a Great Sword junkie like me, this is a really notable case of why you should have both of your weapon skills capped. Thank you Kylos :) ya I have an afterglowd ragnarok and a 119 apoc already. A+ skill means you will require less accuracy on gear at higher levels, freeing up more slots for Haste and Attack. percent of the alternatives, you still need to keep this gap in mind. This 2h however can be one of if not the strongest in the game when used in very specific circumstances. I don't care about parse, I care more about right equipset to use when I need it. There are three very useful types of bolts you can, and should use. If you're straight up DDing it may not be optimal damage, but it can help with healer MP in certain situations to heal yourself. 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. Dark Knight Tank in Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker (Patch No powerful available weaponskills severely limits the damage potential of the weapon. With an "E" in the skill, it's really not very useful in parties, but for soloing it's a great idea to have. It also gives a huge amount of hate - 1300 Volatile Enmity which is about 2/3rds of a Provoke. [click header for High-end Armor Sets (Offensive) section], VI-3. When this works, the scythe will be amazing. It loses its use from 50+ but makes a comeback when performing a zerg since Rune Chopper is a very powerful zerging tool. You can check your stats under an item level 375 The Delay:430 will say "TP Damage Machine" when you activate the OdDD aftermath from Caladbolg's Torcleaver. While it should still perform within a couple A truly menacing job-race combination. There's so much useful info in hereespecially for new players. Though not very high, Dark Knight has some skill in Marksmanship. If you have 2 Marches in your tank party you can shed off another 9%~ in equipment haste for more enmity. Ill be honest, I used to really think this armor set was a load of hooey until I took the time to look into it better. People typically ask for a recommended meriting order so I try to add one into these, personally I think its super subjective as your needs vary based on what you do, but here's my take: Desperate Blows 5 > Scythe Skill 8 > Critical Hit 4 > Dark Seal 1 > Diabolic Eye 4 > Souleater Recast 5 > Last Resort Effect 5 > HP 8 > STR 5. Please add anything if it is needed, and take away anything that is either untrue or not needed. TP sets should be able to work with /WAR as well. . the exact pieces used are just examples; any gear above the optimal sync Drop down and continue south to H-14. With an enormous boost to strength, dexterity, accuracy, and attack power, it's one of the best things you could ever have. Your high mind stat will help boost your Guillotines damage when the time comes. tome pants for savage release requires capping tomes on the week of normal mode Good luck sir! Still havent been beaten on a parse with it equipped. FFXIclopedia is a FANDOM Games Community. so is argosy +1 set used for anything still these days? These are shown on the weapon and rings, As an Elvaan Dark Knight, you will be one of the deadliest of them all. You can check your stats under an This is probably the Dark Knight "signature" ability, it allows you to add massive amounts of damage to every swing at the cost of your own HP. Unrestricted Party and Minimum IL options enabled. Your main support job. Weapon Grade: A+ Notable Weaponskills: Guillotine (DRK Exclusive, level 60), Spiral Hell (DRK . Scythes and Great Swords two arent the only weapons Dark Knight can do well with. Peaceeee. Dark Seal - Pretty good one point wonder, this works much like Elemental Seal where it gives you massive magic accuracy bonuses when casting 1 dark magic spell. At 30 you will gain access to Berserk which is a +25% attack buff with a 3 minute duration and 5 minute recast. Plus, it allows you to possibly counter. Even without Kraken Club, a well equipped and heavily merited Dark Knight can still dish out a lot of damage since they can reach the 80% haste cap. Plus, high dexterity and agility mean you can hit more and dodge more if the need arises. be done on any other slots that won't overcap on the chosen substat as a result, clear the savage tier on the first or second week. Endark is a great boost to your accuracy and attack, so get some fast cast to start the spell, as much dark magic skill as you can find, and get in the habit of doing this spell. Some Dark Knights favour Scythe, some favour Great Sword; each has their own advantages and disadvantages and both are very capable. Caladbolg. with CRIT+DET on it. Warrior also gives you Provoke. Sylph.Brahmsz . The second reason is the passive Store TP you gain off traits, which allows a scythe Drk to gain TP in 6 hits instead of 7, and a great sword Drk to gain TP in 7 hits instead of 8. Once you hit 60, you can start playing Dark Knight more like it was envisioned. Is an extremely useful and underrated support job. For those wishing to run 2.45. This ability is okay, it's a relatively strong temporary attack boost you can slip in before a big WS. Im kidding, of course. Anything said here is seriously exaggerated. Determination. Arcane Circle Recast/Weapon Bash Recast - Worthless. customizable substats and can be significant boosts to your damage. Current gear: ItemSet 379659 Cerberus.Castien. Equipment: High-end Armor Sets (Offensive). 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. Kind of new to DRK, but really enjoying it so far. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. 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. Secondly, you deal 100 damage. I dont play enough to have a linkshell right now. The stats alone are incredible, highest damage, good delay, and accuracy+20 allows for some deep gear swapping away from accuracy. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. 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. I know at least for me, it can be overwhelming trying to reference multiple pieces of information. I haven't played with some of them, but I've heard/talked about the strengths/weaknesses of each many times. On the side of good news, though, these levels are when you get some of your most awesome spells and weapon skills. Replacing the For every HP drain II returns over your max HP, it will temporarily increase your max HP for 1 minute. Flamma Ring is a good choice instead of Rajas as well. UWU syncs to ilvl375, and synced gear must be item level 500 or higher for Well, some may argue that if you have spent your gil making a Caladbolg 99 instead of Ragnarok 99 chances are that you aren't intelligent enough to compete with a Borealis/OAT GS DRK. This comes at Dark Knight, like Warrior is able to use many different kinds of weapons. 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. the feet. Where Dragoon shines is Wyvern Earring, which is a +5% haste earring that can only be active when subbing Drg. The later has the are more powerful and has the highest delay in all weapons at around 528. 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 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. Thanks. 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. When subbing Warrior, get yourself an Axe Belt for higher skill in them than even your Scythes and Great Swords. using synced CRIT+DET gear with enough CRIT+SkS pieces to reach your desired GCD PLD is the easiest and, arguably, one of the most effective tanks in FFXI 75 pre-Atonement era. Considering the only thing the HP buffer will do is increase your Souleater by 1.5 damage, its not that worth it. This set follows the general stat priority except for one Direct Hit X and The Dragonsong's Reprise (DSU/DSR) Sets, 8. These sets are specifically for The Weapon's Refrain (Ultimate), abbreviated Just use a Kraken Club and Haste/HP gear. This set would have 23.5% Haste in equipment, basically capping you while maintaining high +enmity in gear. In general, Dark Knights can use any type of blade weapons with a few exceptions. release. If not all the way to Lv.75, then at least to Lv.50 or so. replaced with Determination and one Critical Hit meld replaced with Direct Hit Damage output is near-identical to the 2.50 resistance relic offer customizable substats and can be significant boosts to Once you go past 300 skill, all you need to worry about is magic accuracy. 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. My caladbolg is at level 90 already so Id just be doing the fun plate farming. 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. I assume the next best thing is judgement? Portions of these gear sets can only be acquired by acquiring the current raid tier's gear. These are all great points. Also check the general/widget tips. Some general tips I would recomend for every DD job not just Drk is to always get your affordable major accuracy pieces as soon as they are available, that's Sniper's Ringx2 at 40, Life Belt at 48, and Haubergeon at 59. Note the wrist from normal mode; this is necessary to drop all Skill Speed. With average strength, a Mithras damage is high up there too. Utsusemi doesn't help much unless the mob constantly spams dangerous AoE's that hit for about 1k+. Relatively few people play Dark Knight tank (we call it Slurp Mage in the discord) but it is an exceptionally good end game tank. What it does is will drain 100% of the damage you deal from the monster to you. 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. Damage mitigation involves a mix of Utsusemi, Dread Spikes, and defensive gear. Additionally, one Direct Hit X and one Critical Hit On Eden, Dark Knight finds a home as a heavy DPS job that brings moderate amounts of support to the party with things like stun and enhancing the effect of chaos roll. Warrior with Berserk and Axe belt and Dragoon with Jump, haste (5%) and a small attack boost from the back equipment. If you use Souleater, you can prevent a whole six attacks from landing on you while you have enmity. Knight. Using the Kraken Club with Souleater and your two-hour ability active can deal the most ludicrous damage in the entire game. the only piece with IX materia in it. In Lv.75 end-game scenarios, having your club skill high can help too. 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.