Galka's job combinationsFollow

What does everybody think about galka's support job being thieves at lvl 18. I am still not sure what i think would be a good suppport job for a galka due to their lack of mp. Then later on down the road i was thinking 70 paladin/35 warrior for the ultimate tank. Paladins look good b/c they pretty much just cast protect protect and cure.

So what do you guys think would be good job combo's and why.

Artesian Lvl 13 Galka Warrior(Phoenix)

The guide recommends Monk/Warrior instead. Says a monk as a sub job does not do as well. Gals are the best monks around and with Warrior as your subjob you get provoke and added HP.

This makes you a very viable light tank with higher DPS. This is the route I intend to take me Galka in.

The guide recommends Monk/Warrior instead. Says a monk as a sub job does not do as well. Gals are the best monks around and with Warrior as your subjob you get provoke and added HP.

This makes you a very viable light tank with higher DPS. This is the route I intend to take me Galka in.

I say go with a Paladin/Warrior for galka. If you haven't noticed there are a bunch of items that convert HP to MP. This seems like a great deal from a class combo that have an excessive ammount of HP. I have grouped with Galka Paladin/Warriors and they are the ultimate in defensive tanking. If you want to be a Monk(my class) please do realize that you wear some crappy armor!!! You are designed to be a damage dealer not a full tank. I say why be good at offense and augment your defense when youd be better served to be excellent at one? Since armor is worn based upon your main class you would be ******** yourself out of a lot of money! Warrior/paladin armor is much much cheaper and more effective! More warriors with different combinations of weapons also widen the market a bit vs hand-to-hand weapons.

Also lvl 30 takes a while so you can decide slowly!

Thanks,

Toshimoko lvl 16 Monk Pandemonium

The reason it says that is because the majority of the monk's abilities just increase hand to hand proficiency, which no jobs except monk and ninja specialize in. The only jobs I've found that monks make decent subs for are samurai and ninja. Subbing a monk for samurai is really good, because boosting before using a weapon skill can double or sometimes even triple the damage. Subbing monk for ninja helps if you want to make a hand to hand ninja that uses katars.

I agree! I've created a Galka WAR to make the perfect tank. For the moment, I'm 24 WAR / 12 MNK and already an amazingly effective tank. I'm trying to get gears that boost my VIT as much as possible making it so IT ennemies often make less than 20 dmg to me (and I've got a little more than 500 hp) so a little WHM in the group and with provoke everyone's safe... well usually! A backup taunter is often needed.
But this is not the case as a PAL / WAR. First, taunt, usual aggro keeper. WHat's new and so usefull if healing abilites, very few you'll say thanks to Galka's sucky MP, but a cure II here an there can make a true difference in keeping ennemies's attention and saving other's @ss in your party! Moreover, with so much HP its easy to buy stuff like -25hp,+25mp to cast more spells.
Main thing about PALs being better thanks than WAR/MNK or MNK/WAR is their defense up abilities. When you've got Defense Up III, taunt, a few healing possibilities (to keep aggro since overall, healing yourself is the WHM's job), galka's high HP and VIT and if over that you manage to boost either your VIT to get less dmg, STR to make a little more and keep aggro even mroe effectively, AGI to dodge more hits or DEX to miss less often (okay VIT and STR are a lot better), well you're one hell of a tank baby! Try it and try not to be overwhelmed by the tons of invitations you'll receive as this PAL / WAR and by the recognition you'll get from your party members. :)

Uhm, Anonymous, there's a simple reason why that's a bad idea. You take the low MP of a Galka, combine it with the low MP of a Dark Knight, and then you decrease it even further by subbing it - and what you end up with is a rather useless DRK sub, because you can't drain/debuff more than twice in a row, and your spells won't last long either.


But anyhow, Galkas are great in any melee class, even the non-tank ones. Monk/War, Pal/War, Drg/Sam, Nin/Thf - you name it, they can do it. No matter which combination you pick, they're either good at it, or they're great at it.


Oh, and Monk makes a nice sub for any melee/tank class. You get nice stats, massive HP, counter, dodge, boost, concentrate, and so on.

Edited, Sat Dec 20 15:07:23 2003 by Urakh

For those people saying monks suck as a sub because the strat guide says so are wrong. If you notice the strat guide also says that the ranger accuracy auras are for melee attacks instead of ranged. The strat guide is not perfect and the people who made it did not try out of of the combos. The crap about wasted skills cause of hth boosts don't also notice...boost, dodge aura, focus, and the HP bonuses. The HP bonuses can't be ignored because if you are a damage dealer or a tank you will need this to survive aggro!

just my 2 cents,

Toshimoko lvl 20MNK/10WAR
<Pandemonium>

I know what your all going to say. Im insane, but I took Red Mage to 30 on a galka, it was fantastic. Yes I dont have the MP of a taru but I rarely died. I could get cure 2's and 3's off on myslef because I had damn near 600 HP by the time I was 30. Now Im Dark Knight/Red Mage and its working wonderfully. I /FLEW/ through levels 1-13 in a day because I could take things out and then could cure myself. Its not the best option but I wouldnt do anything differently if I had to start over again.

Ok, i took my monk to 31, war to 10. Got all the monk's abilities, and had provoke and def. bonus. even with crappy armor, im the main tank EVERY party. at that lvl, 709 hp, nearly the same defense of a war/mnk, but still had almost 200 more hp than any other race. Each attack, i hit for MAYBE 1-4 less than a warrior does, but i hit 2x for each of thier attacks.
I think the longest i had to wait for a party was 5 minutes, in kazham, and thats cause there were only 12 people in the area besides myself. dont underestimate the value of hitting 2x every attack just because the damage is barely lower than a sword's.

anon, just a post above the last one.. I was your twin!

I was mnk 30/ war 10 too.. And main tank till lvl 25. At 25 I started partying with more hardcore and capable warriors. I still out HP'd them like you did.. 709 at 30th with items. :)

I switched to brd/whm and I am having a blast.


As for the last question about thf/sam - you need to go sam as primary to wear the armor. And they do indeed look cool.

As for sub.. or your first class.. You do whatever you like. I was planning to go dragoon.. but decided that melee was boring after 30 lvls.. so I went brd/whm.. now I have too much to do during battle.. I still manage to get my dagger in the monster a few times though! :)

I started all over again.. having to level both jobs because I never dreamed of going whm when I hit 30. It's been fun leveling that too.. Do whatever combo you want.. just have fun!