(Don't) Fear The Reaper: A Dark Knight Guide

In that case are the fetters only going to hit the RUN if spawned? What WS are the WAR and BLU using?

WAR was using Calamity. BLU was using Expiacion. We positioned him in this little notch to both prevent knockback and the people behind would avoid the Fetters. Reviewing the footage we actually had 8.5 minutes left on the clock when he died. Cranked.

First I've heard of Lahar being inaccessible during aura. Goes counter to how it's "supposed to" work

It's lovely to see all us DRKs getting along so well. Some of us are even confirming our friendships in DMs and strengthening our bonds.




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As for Kalunga, we found WAR with Farsha pushed out a little more dmg and used that instead, but we also did the skillchains with each other. If we ever have to go back and unlock it again for someone, we might try not doing the aura, it just seemed risky and didn't cross our minds.

Pissy because you got pissy about a guide you don't understand or a job you don't understand.

Keep trying what the fact you don't understand how trust buffs work and gear? A full page ago you said you had acc issues and listed trust as you buffs..

Direct quote from one of your post so it just screams I pay for my clears. No understanding how drk can do kalunga but saying this gearsets are bad seems super stupid.

Oh look, justthetip having a mental breakdown over being unable to read English as usual. I have never paid for any Ody clears, and have multiple chars up to V25 T3s now. I am sorry your jealousy makes you so enraged.

Regarding Kalunga, my post was nothing about "if DRK can do Kalunga" but about the idea of pushing through without planning to break aura, which other posters here that are also better and better geared than you have also questioned.

Please keep trying.

Know what you right I'm just jealous of your use of anchor and not understanding gear while having better gear then me. I don't have a single ody clear and you got them all I'm just jealous clearly. Your mental breakdown is clearly right and everyone who quoted what you said is wrong clearly.

Please tell us how you translated this as "Can DRK kill Kalunga?" in your brain.

The question is clearly about the strategy - zerging without a plan to break the aura, and not about whether or not "DRK can Kalunga".

Link me

Bottom of the discussion page but nvm - it does mention SC right at the end, that's usually mentioned higher up near the job roles.

we used for v25 kalunga ; drk, war (farsha), cor, whm, brd, run. took a few months to get but very simple once we got synergy of group down and mechanics of fetter, well the cadence.

I'm more surprised the tank kept hate with that much dps in such a small window and constant full dispels.

Is there any use for Dark Harvest or Shadow Of Death anywhere? For some reason, I recall some using them for some reason, or perhaps I am remembering wrong.

SoD is the strongest magic ws drk has, though not too many instances where thats useful, flan fight comes to mind

Cool. I was wondering if there was any reason to create sets for these two weaponskills, but if they are never used.

What are you guys currently using for TP sets for sortie or T3 V20/25 clears? I have been looking at this guide and high end sets one too but not sure if they're still current sets or there is newer ones. Thanks.

I would keep it simple:
Sakpata 5/5
Belt: Sailfi+1 R15
Ear: Shere
Ear: Brutal/Dedition
Ring: Niqmaddu
Ring: Chirich+1/Moonlight
Cape: PDT/DA/ACC/DEX
Ammo: Coiste
Neck: JSE+1/2

Agree with Mr. Knowitall mostly. May not want schere earring though. For Mboze v20, some atrats have drk tanking and doing tp denile so loosing hate and mp might not be a good idea. Also, v20 kalunga, some strats have add bouncing around on the dds so again, might not want to be loosing enmity and having the add attack your healer.

Another consideration would be your sakpatas augments. Want to make sure you have enough SB and may need another chirch ring +1.

Eh...draining your mp could be a problem if you need to cast, but the enmity is not going to be a problem in any mboze strat I'm aware of. DRK being primary/only DD will never lose hate and drk hitting add and tanking mboze (in multi KI), schere will be reducing hate on add, not Mboze. It's also only for melee swings which aren't the majority of your threat generation either.

SB can be a factor but it depends highly on your strategy (whether you have a WHM) and is way too fight and strategy specific to be covered under a general "what should I wear for events" question like this. The vast majority of the time, SB is not a factor.

I stopped using Schere Earring on DRK but I really don't have any reason to. I could easily switch to Apoc or Anguta and do an Entropy/Drain 3/Dread Spikes/EndarkII. Most MP is used before a fight even starts anyways (unless you're watching for Stun), so you're not particularly going to be missing that MP during any pertinent battles.

Trying to remember: in Sortie/V20 or 25s, is there any situation on DRK where you'd need MP mid fight for anything? DSNV is usually prefight and it's not usually worth doing it mid fight. Even in Segs it's once in a while right? Think Schere is fine to use.

I just use a toggle.

state.OffenseMode:options('Normal', 'Scythe', 'MaxAcc')

The only difference between Normal and Scythe now is Schere, makes it easy to toggle on and off depending on MP needs.

Any practical uses for Anguta, for a DRK who already has Apocalypse R15, Caladbolg R15, and Father Time B R25? (aside from just swapping to it for a quick Entropy MP refill if using not-scythe)

Just trying to decide which Malformed KI to make next, I'm down to a small handful of not particularly impactful Aeonics remaining. Anguta's competition is Lionheart (for my RUN that already has R15 Epeo and I generally just use for pure tanking situations) and Sequence (lol).

Very strong SoD option, kind of an all-rounder dmg scythe since just about all of the go-to dmg ones have heavy TP scaling on WS, helps entropy suck a bit less, that INT mod hurts it more than anything, itd be pretty solid otherwise

It's a fantastic cross reaper weapon.

First off, please don't take any of my below comments as sarcastic. DRK is not one of my most prioritized jobs, and while I have pretty good gear on it I haven't played with it much in the past couple years so I'm a little rusty. I'm genuinely asking out of a bit of ignorance lol.


1) Is it better than Father Time B for Cross Reaper? I would have thought that the FUA for better TP generation might outweigh the stronger WS from Anguta's TP bonus. Particularly since Anguta's associated WS isn't a great DPS option - sure would be nice if Anguta gave Cross Reaper a bonus (similar to thoughts I've been having about Tri-Edge)!

2) What kinds of practical situations these days even call for Cross Reaper as a better choice than Caladbolg/Torcleaver spam?


Basically same question for SoD. I get that Anguta is a good weapon for it, but what situations are you regularly finding yourself in, in 2024, where you really want to use SoD?

I'm wondering if this is kind of like Fail-Not being great for Flaming Arrow. Which is absolutely true! But it's still usually better overall to use some other weapon/WS combo.

None of the Aeonics you listed are seeing any use these days. Anguta is probably about the same or worse than Father Time, and Liberator pulls ahead of Anguta as well. When I complete Aeonics now it is merely to collect trophy pieces. You're at that stage as well.

If you didn't have Father Time, Anguta would be useful, although Scythes are only seeing use when you 1) need to reliably multi-step skillchain with yourself or others, and 2) you can't use Distortion on something like Dhartok.

No idea about SoD. I had this same question two months ago and nobody could give me an answer on where and why it would see any use. Infernal Scythe "could" see some use on NMs like the Yagudo in Dynamis to lower its attack, but that's only if the group is struggling to survive it. This is situational stuff.

Id personally value TP bonus more, just for sake of reliability, and if paired with warcry you run less risk of overflow too. As far as situations that call for it there aint much tbh, torc spams going to be at worst competitive and just plain better a vast majority of the time unless you're trying to not SC with yourself, same for SoD where its only real utility is in dynamis for fun.

Id still presume more value out of it than LH and sequence though, as those just dont have much useability at all these days, once nyame got put in dimi(or prime if you have that) has just been the go to WS on RUN, and you know what sits at the top of the sword tree