im gonna start dark knight soon i have a quick question

[Yagami Kunoichi]

Re: im gonna start dark knight soon i have a quick question

It takes a little time once you're on those Valkurm mobs, but it really does go pretty quickly. They're capped 'fore you know it. Trouble is in the 40s and 50s and keeping it capped then. Fortunately, now that I'm 70, I do have Scythe and Great Sword capped along with Dark Magic. ...And Evasion >.> There's nothing greatly complex about it, just keep going back and forth each level as much as possible.

[zagex]

Re: im gonna start dark knight soon i have a quick question

My plan was to get Pld, Drk, and War through dunes, and some of those past dunes. I have sword well past Dunes levels from Rdm, and Scythe to around 100ish from messing around as Blm.
So having sword, I lvled Pld first, and brought along a greatsword to skillup while seeking or whate not. I think I ended up capping greatsword for a lvl 10 Drk. As a lvl 19 Pld, I could take on a single lizard in dunes using greatsword, but before lvl 19, I stayed in Konschtat(sp?) Highlands and La Theine.
Then, having greatsword and scythe, I lvled Drk and brought along a greataxe to skillup while seeking. I came close to capping Greataxe for a lvl 10 War from killing stuff in Konschtat.

If you have War lvled to 30, then it shouldn't be hard and shouldn't take too long to get any weapon (that they can use) past skill lvl 35ish for Dunes.

[lionx]

Re: im gonna start dark knight soon i have a quick question

I personally do not feel that Scythe WS is useless, Slice is good for ending Distortion if theres no THF and Shadow of Death makes me want to party with a DRK when i invite a WAR with a GAxe for Fragmentation. Both are incredibly good skillchains, i dont see the problem.

[wolfjorg]

Re: im gonna start dark knight soon i have a quick question

Scythe and Great Sword skill are pretty much even till the mid 60's when scythe cap starts to be higher than GS. ( if i am right?) as for Great Axe... mine is hovering around 120-140 area, not really leveled it much.

Just switch from time to time, early in the parties, you can sc off scythe and great sword. It becomes a pain to start keeping them capped in mid 60's , once a DRK gets Spinn Slash, it's a pain to use scythe, cause eveyone and their mother wants a lv 3 light sc...

I know DRKs who personally die in a pt and ask for R-1 at high levels, so they can xp more and have time to try and capp both weapons before next lv >.< .

[Yagami Kunoichi]

Re: im gonna start dark knight soon i have a quick question

It's not that low level weapon spills for DRK are terrible, it's just they lack anything really remarkable. THF can SATA with Fast Blade, Wasp Sting, Viper Bite, Monks have Combo and Raging Fists, and even Backhand Blow. But to be honest, there aren't really a -lot- of really stand out low end WSes, so it's kind of a fake complaint.

[Aeni]

Re: im gonna start dark knight soon i have a quick question

My order of bidness when getting melee up... my experience is my own, others will have varying experiences.

Because I rasied dagger (Capped for level 31 job) and sword (Capped for level 56 job) I have flexibility on other weapon choices for my jobs.


RNG (Axe) -> 10
WAR (Gaxe) -> 10
DRG (Polearm) -> 10
DRK (Scythe) -> 10
THF (Idk ... I find h2h better than a dagger so sub MNK) -> 10
MNK (h2h) -> 10
PLD (GSword) -> 10
BST (Can go with either Scythe, axe, sword, etc. I find this best job to keep things up to par since you're fighting EMs most of the time) -> 10
NIN (Katana) -> 10
SAM (GKatana) -> 10

As much as possible, I subbed RNG for ranged attack. You pull with a ranaged attack because there's a possiblity of doing damage and getting free tp on the pull. You're that much ahead of the mob by the time it hits you. This is how I could take low Ts and EMs w/o problems in TC even at level 10. Yes, at level 10 I was fighting Ts w/o PL. Just rest to full HP if can or use Persikos Au Lait (Hell, even cheapy Selbina Milk will do) and use Dhalmel Pies (STR, HP and Attack boost which are always good for meleeing at low levels)

Get all melee jobs to 10. Then you're ready for dunes. Your skills should be at or near cap. Thus you are ready for your first true PT experience. Having all melee jobs at 10 does many things:

-You got tons of crystals if you were diligent about signet
-You got tons of cp too
-And tons of other items
-Removed need to store up to 3 or 4 equipment sets for pre-level 10 jobs.

LOL I learned this from watching a friend who has all jobs to 40 (Yes, all jobs) with BST and new ToAU jobs being the exception. He has 5 AF sets and that many more jobs at 60+ Makes equipment storing and moving things around a lot easier if all jobs are up to par equally...

I want to add that just getting even 4 melee jobs to 10 I got over 40 stacks of crystals and about 10,000 cp give or take 500 or so.

[Stockyboy]

Re: im gonna start dark knight soon i have a quick question

Good suggestion :D

[Maju]

Re: im gonna start dark knight soon i have a quick question

Get all melee jobs to 10. Then you're ready for dunes. Your skills should be at or near cap. Thus you are ready for your first true PT experience. Having all melee jobs at 10 does many things:

-You got tons of crystals if you were diligent about signet
-You got tons of cp too
-And tons of other items
-Removed need to store up to 3 or 4 equipment sets for pre-level 10 jobs.

The only problem is that levels 1-10 are incredibly boring. I think my brain would explode by the second or third job.

[Aeni]

Re: im gonna start dark knight soon i have a quick question

The only problem is that levels 1-10 are incredibly boring. I think my brain would explode by the second or third job.

Take it in stages or over a course of a month. When you're absolutely bored with your main, go back to your lower level jobs. Eventually, once all jobs are at level 20sh or so, you'll have so much options opened to you for COP it's not funny. Take it even further, say 50sh, and everyone will want you in their LS.