I feel like a failure soloing in dyna on thf. Help?Follow

I was in a similar situation recently trying to get my thf af hands and soloing dyna tav as I didn't have access to dyna xarc. The first piece of advice I will give you is if you already have dyan beau access, try there, as the city/northland zones are typically easier than the cop zones as a general rule.

Second, if that is not an option, here is my advice. First, if you are solo, sub /dnc and get a relatively decent evasion set that keeps capped haste. You could go /nin if you didn't care about procing currency all the time AND if bloody bolts work on your prey. Shadows probably wouldn't though, although it seems that dyna mobs are a different classification of mob, so it is a possibility. Mine was nothing to brag about, but it was enough to solo Demons for the full two hours if I was on top of my game.

Here it is:
Thockha STR (I don't have an eva one)
Thief Knife or Triplus (couldn't decide, I ended up getting better currency drops without Thief Knife it seemed [unparsed])
Raider's Boomerang if bloody bolts dont work on shadows, otherwise swap to xbow as needed
Raider's Bonnet +2
Evasion Torque
Suppanomimi
Brutal Earring
Raider's Vest +2
Brego Gloves
Rajas Ring
Heed Ring
Blithe Mantle
Twilight Belt
Ocelot Trousers
Raider's Poulaines +2

I could have used a bit more eva in the set, but that one worked pretty well for demons. For dagger, I just picked up the one that can give you a 3 minute haste buff, I will probably start using that one on the runs that I do. 15% more haste is quite nice.

If you are going to be duo in, I strongly recommend that whichever person will do most of the tanking goes as /nin rather than /dnc. If your friend is a bst, go /nin as you will probably split tanking time 50/50 with the pet on a good bst, a not so good one and you will tank about 80%. That way, you also have access to magic procs on rdm, smn, whm, blm, brd mobs if you happen to pull them. I wouldn't pull any of those except maybe brds or whm solo, maybe expand that to rdms if you are duo.

For TEs, I was never able to successfully solo the Eye TE, so when I was soloing, I only did 4. The one past the tauri is the hardest one, but you can do one tauri at a time to get down there, it isn't too bad.

My advice for playing as /dnc would be to keep haste samba up at all times. The extra attack speed will help you stay alive more than not expending the 35 tp to have it up. Alternatively, if drain samba works, you can try that, but I have had better survivability results with haste samba. Boxstep for finishing moves for refverse flourish and violent flourish. I didn't use referse flourish all that often unless I needed an emergency cure or something, but I was able to stun a lot of tp moves on demons with violent flourish. Substitute quickstep for evasive mobs. Lastly, do not let HP drain effects stay on your char for long. Healing waltz those as fast as possible. Prioritize Curing Waltz III over healing waltz though.

good luck

If you want bst af2 boots, why not use your BST? your survivability will be much higher. While you will only have TH1, more mobs killed is probably just as good as more TH (currency from average BST vs average THF seems to confirm that)

I use THF/DNC nowadays for dynamis, here's my setup:

TP set:

Aluh/Eva dagger(that I had before)
Ziska's xbow + acid bolts/blood bolts
AF3+2 helm
Love torque
Brutal/Suppa
Thaumas body
AF3+2 hands
Epona/Rajas
Atheling mantle
Twilight belt(still no luck on phasmida)
Thaumas legs
AF2+2 feet

Macro in AF2+2 hands and AF3+2 feet in steps and flourishes, a solid racc set to pull, reraise/food(Bison steak/RCB)

Pulling in more then 150 coins with competition :) compared to around 130 on BST...did pull 169 today, and 189 monday ^^

Thank you Hy. You're not the only one that VW hates; VW tends to hate me as well. Maybe one day it'll quit hating me. ^^ I'll see what I can do, and with the NNI changes, I hope I can get some of that gear. ^^

Earlier this week, 202 and 204 coins, and just came out with 219 coins a few minutes ago :) Did try 5/5 Thaumas on WS, works nicely ;)

Though it's a bit late for me to comment to this, the Kudzu Aketon will definitely do better than Loki's when not stacking Exenterator with Sneak Attack. Stacking Exenterator with Sneak Attack, the DEX from and the Critical Hit Damage should pull ahead unless you are absolutely starved for Attack, which you shouldn't be given that Dynamis mobs are EP/DC. If you have them (since I'm sure you have access to them given your other gear), Thaumas Gloves are the best to WS in when not-stacked as well (unless you have Myrmex Mittens).

I don't know if you're saving your weaponskills till you can always stack them with Sneak Attack, but it might be good for you to have multiple WS sets, depending on what situation it is.

Edited, Jan 21st 2013 8:13am by Vlorsutes

212 and 222 coins(1 death too!) today, i'm getting the hang of it even without Coruscanti/Twashtar/Mandau :P

238 solo all run in dyna-Qufim with 1 death, which is now my personnal best without any help for TE ^^ Can't wait to try it out with Twashtar once I get it ;)

For -PDT builds (for those situations where you're fighting something where Evasion really isn't going to matter), the feet are really nice, since they don't require you to give up haste in the slot.