Is it wrong to play Dancer as more of a support class?Follow

I know a lot of people seem to play Dancer as more of a DD class, but for some reason, I tend to play it as more of a healer/support class. Is that bad? I know people will tell me that I can play however I like and the way I play is fun, but am I missing out on the full potential? It's not like I don't use weapon skills or anything, but I mainly use my TP, flourishes, and steps for healing, buffing, and debuffing. I have haste samba capped, No Foot Rise is at 3, reverse flourish is at 4/5, and I macro in a fair amount of things for my waltzes for better healing of myself and my members. I also tend to gear more for buffs and debuffs rather than damage.

I apologize if this is a dumb topic, but I just wanted to know if anyone else leaned more towards support rather than DD, even though DNC can do both fairly well.

In Abyssea I'm almost strictly DD. I sub /nin so I don't die, use my RR atma and whatever other DD atma seems good and go to town. With the output potential of Evisceration supercharged by RR, I feel it's just a waste to not be focused on destroying things as dnc, maybe even full-timing saber dance.

Outside Abyssea I try to support as much as possible because mages won't have their permanent refresh for unlimited curing, I won't be annihilating things as much. I sub /war since I won't be pulling hate as much, though waltzes sometimes complicate that, but that's what defender and fan dance are for. So I keep the haste samba going and only throw in the occasional Dancing Edge.

So my opinion is, DNC as a support class is great but it makes it hard to properly abuse RR if you have it.

DNC is one of those jobs that can be whatever a party needs it to be. In abyssea, though I enjoy DD most often, i've also done DD/support healing, main assist, puller, and main healer. Dnc can do a whole lot of different things well, expecially if you've got good atma. Even when I'm not main assist I end up dealing such a ridiculous amount of dmg with RR/VV/alpha&omega that the mob is pretty much on me the whole time anyway. If you're not needed for healing, which you usually aren't because of the disgustingly awesome refresh atmas, then you can really wail on mobs if you've got RR at the very least. With a multi-hit weapon RR is just plain ridiculous, I've got a 2-4x parazonium+2 off hand, and spamming supercharged eviscerations almost as fast as you can mash the macros is aaaaaawesome, especially when your normal melee strikes are critting for ridicuous dmg on top of it. Basically, it's just a matter of paying attention to what your alliance needs most, and doing that. DNC is very versatile, and a versatile player can bring the most out of it in every situation. You don't have to stick to just one role, learn to do everything and you'll be more valuable to an alliance and have more fun doing it.

Fan Dance is only exceptional in that it facilitates having high eva and moderate PDT simultaneously. The situations where you need both at the exact same time are fairly uncommon and frequently overlap with situations where Scherzo or Migawari would be applicable. For everything else, you should be mashing that PDT macro when you see a big physical TP move coming anyway.

Where have you been the past 3 years? Hate caps. Outpacing your backline's hate gain on the way up should be a joke and tbh your WHM shouldn't be capping VE ever.

Again, Scherzo and Migawari say hi. No server lag there. If you really lag bad enough that you can't even get your PDT gear up in time, I'd question the decision to have you tanking to begin with because you may not be able to even roll shadows reliably.

DNC is a very versitle job. You can debuff,stun,cure,buff,haste, and DD. However, if you do all these really well, plan on tanking <<. Thats been my experience.


Edited, Dec 29th 2010 5:42pm by doctorugh