The "OFFICIAL" Dark Knight DING! Thread.Follow

Loser.

Lets keep the eel-gets to the DRK lounge, this is ding thread, lets not ruin it please D: I derailed it enough through aspect ratio.

Chaos Hands +1 mine tomorrow :P (DRK 52 atm ^^) Which puts me 2/3 on Af+1(hands and feet done, just need parts for helm) :P

=D

and Turin I was jus messin with ya, but eels on ding thread just isn't as awesome as eels in the lounge =D . . . especially if you need to make more then 2 posts in a row to get it XD

And I haven't done anything PotM worthy lately anyway XD


Though I think I should get DRK of the month for drinking some vodka and getting WG so riled up that I got suspended for almost 48 hours =D
EDIT WTF IT HAS BEEN ALMOST 48 HOURS AND I CAN'T GET ON STILL . . . IF IM BANNED IMMA KILL SOME @#%^S.

Edited, Aug 2nd 2009 2:09am by SillyXSara

NVM think i figured it out . . .got 45min till i can geet on -_- @#%^ing 45 hour suspension for their "24 hour suspension" @#%^s.

Edited, Aug 2nd 2009 2:17am by SillyXSara

Except he can't wear the +1 until level 74, meaning he's missing out on 20 levels of wearing AF in parties.

You can redo the AF quests.

Meh, I used helm till o-hat. And I was proud damnit!

GIMP

Seriously though, that's really good :( wonderful to see a well-geared DRK levelling.

Fough Maat for the first time... Fail. Forgot to eat my food and I jacked up my Hi-Potion macro. I deserved the beating he gave me. But I did get a 0.1 skill up on my scythe first swing. I though it was funny.

Aye, maat is you . . . but with capped skills, better abilities, and a subjob(mnk). Least you can do is cap your skills! also strat is discussed for this fight in another thread right here on the 1st page o.o

another ding of sorts:

yet another emptyhanded SSR run. flawless execution, LAC killed. freelot crap drops, but hey at least the mega-boss drops...something. i was totaling up our SSR runs and it's @#%^ing depressing. 2 years+ running slavage now. for the last year, we've done at least 1 SSR run as we have 4 people needing 35's to complete pieces. the first year, we hit it two if not three times a week, when we weren't farming frogs or arapewego for dem's cuirass/macha's coat. so, just being conservative, our group has passed 200 runs without a drop from gyroscopic gears now, all with TH3/4, depending on who was in the group at the time. @#%^ing fail.

/rantoff

GOGOLOLMASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! @#%^ SALVAGE

From here.

Faramir, I used to bring my scythe to Kirin just to see what sort of superbuffed epeen Guillotine damage I could pop off. (Hell, Kirin died in 30 seconds anyway, not like a proper zerg weapon would have been worthwhile for me...and I still out-damaged every DRK that wasn't using M.Kris or K.Club, anyway, including the Fort. Axe ones...) I am not the person to be asking about how to zerg properly, lol...I'm gonna guess (CORRECTLY, I'M ALWAYS RIGHT) that because the multihit cap doesn't come into play that dual wielding republican daggers is more beneficial than one-handing them and getting 2 some-odd damage from Januwiyaah's HP assuming your acc is close to capped. I'll see if I can dig up an old post I saw on Ridill/M.Kris that talks about dual wielding with non-KC/OC weapons.

Edit: Nvm, forgot KI is down. Post I'm thinking of is down with it.

Edited, Aug 15th 2009 10:56pm by firefeng

15% reduction with Dual Wield II, 20% with Suppa (but then what kind of DRK are you?). One dagger would be 2.5 seconds a round, two would be 4.25 seconds a round, 2.125 seconds a dagger. With 50% haste base I have:

50% haste Single 150 delay - 24 swings
55% haste single 250 delay (Wyvern) - 26 swings
50% haste Dual 150 delay without suppa - 28 swings
50% haste dual 150 delay with suppa - 30 swings

however:

60% haste single 150 delay (wyvern) - 30 swings
55% dual 150 delay without suppa - 31 swings
55% dual 150 delay with suppa - 33 swings

The gap closes the more haste you have, though these are extreme amounts (Three Homam pieces, Turban, and Wyvern Earring with capped magical would be 62%) without Hasso/DB, while /DRG would gain you a few hits from Jumps and some hate reduction as opposed to Utsusemi.

So: Unless you have a Suppa or don't have at least 12% haste in other gear or aren't getting full magical haste, /DRG's jumps, Wyvern earring, Accuracy Trait, and Hate Reduction will make up the difference and rectify other benefits.

Edited, Aug 18th 2009 12:12pm by Raelix

Same general breakdown, I noticed that afterwards but you got the point - high haste makes Wyvern Earring catch up with Dual wield.

DRK 54-56 in one nice party :P Off with the Luisant and on with Akinji goodness ^^
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/profile.xml?154870

I do swap in +5 acc hands and life belt(+10 acc) for WS and some RACC equip(rings,akinji legs,thunderer's mantle and +5 racc feet(lvl 40)) when I feel like trying to land some acid bolts on mobs ;)

Edited, Aug 24th 2009 12:31am by hyunkyl

Ding Abyss Flanchard. Now to make an entireley new spellcast xml ballshiz to differentiate between Drain/II/Aspir and Absorbs to leave the black on for the latter.

Howso? :O Plastron has less STR and ATK and Byrnie has less STR and ATK! Ebody is accuracy +22.5!

EDIT: Byrnie +1 has -marginally- higher attack but this is completely offset by the loss of Hecatomb Cap and the fact it's still 5str below Ebody, where 5str > 6.25atk.

Edited, Aug 27th 2009 12:18pm by RaenRyong

Cheers :) I consider Adaman Hauberk way too powerful for its own good; I wouldn't consider using Ares over it for weaponskill on Guillotine ever practically, 9atk 2str for 22.5accuracy is just awful honestly.

Not criticising what you're saying at all, just saying; I think if you're attempting to balance a weaponskill set, the Adaberk should definitely stay on >:3

DRK 58 in a crappy party with a NIN with underleveled sub that wouldn't voke xd

{Askar zuchetto} the nazi motorcycle helm is mine!

FINALLY after a long hard road...ding 75 DRK

Homam hands: O.


4/5 now!