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

Nice body/leg augments you got there. As it is you are in a 3hit build with 4 hits of insurgency landing, maxing your neck will let you keep a 3hit with 3 hits landed. Swapping the back out will let you change out body hand and legs for higher accuracy gear. I'd make a new mantle when you can, but what you have definitely works.

/Edit
As shorthand, you can think of Double attack in gear being 60% effective and triple attack being 80% effective compared to their listed values during AM3. Its not precise, but it works in a pinch.

Will you provide alternative sets for those who can't afford/find Ratri +1s on their server?

nq

Sulevia leggings +2 over Ratri NQ though

So hypothetical situation..

Let's say I have Apoc and Anguta. How far will this take in content before I, or others, feel I should be using Caladbolg or Liberator? Is it something that ends up being required, or can Apoc/Anguta take me through Dyna-D?

Right now I have Apoc, and my next goal for weapons was Anguta, but I planned to stop there. I see a LOT of talk about Calad/Lib being the go-to for most content though so just curious how detrimental I will be without them.

(I know I asked a similar question before, but I am looking for a more elaborated/detailed answer)

Apoc is a utility/acc scythe, as it has been for a good while.

Anguta's a perfectly good weapon for damage. Best Cross Reaper weapon. I'd say best Entropy weapon, but the AM3 from Lib might make it better now that WS gearing is primarily WSDMG.

You can use Apoc/Anguta and clear all waves of new dyna with no problems. R15 on both just pushes them further. So I wouldn't be too stressed out about not having Calad or Lib. I have personally used all but Lib/Redemp with zero issues on all levels of content.

Good to hear. What are the best utility uses for Apoc? I know soloing content it's useful, but what else if anything? I legit made Apoc based on always wanting to play DRK and own Apoc since like 2005 era, but never did it.

Also what determines whether I should use Apoc over Anguta and vice versa aside from the acc bonus on Apoc, if anything? I have never really played a melee job that had more than one set weapon option/combo haha.

Allows you to cap haste via Cata's additional effect, without locking yourself into /SAM (or without needing to be under Last Resort, but as /SAM). And the obvious benefits of HP drain attached to a pretty okay weaponskill.

Edit: Also access to a Gravitation/Darkness weaponskill. 3 step double Darkness skillchain is possible.

That TP set (mostly) was here
for more than several months now. You just need to search more :)

Unless im missing something your TP set isnt capping haste and is sitting at 23%.

TP set doesn't need capped haste during Last Resort. Could get away with 11.25 gear haste and still cap so long as magic haste is cspped.

When last resort is down. you can pop in the Igno flanchard +3 to make the haste back up as those have 5%. Personally I would rock those full time as I am too lazy to make different sets for that kinda thing.

Would anyone know how to write a conditional in GearSwap to call a different TP gearset when Mythic AM3 is up? Since I'm using Liberator much more often now, I should probably unlazy-fy my lua. I tried writing it myself, and didn't have success.

I'm rockin a version of Bokura's someone posted a few pages back and really like it. I had to create another ACC set in mine and have to manually switch when AM is up. I'm not very good with code but was able to figure that much out anyway. But having it auto would be nice.

I'll take a look a few pages back. Thanks! I was also looking for automation, but worst case, I'll make a manual switch.

Remembered it was from another thread, here's a link to mine anyway.

My DRK Lua

That math isn't right. Relic/Mythic WS boosts are not additive with WSD. Moonshade and overflow TP are not exclusive to Anguta- and in fact you're likely to get more overflow with Liberator.

Liberator:
(1.1875*1.15*1.3*1.6)+(1*1.15*1.3*1.6*3) = 10.0165

Anguta:
(2.5625*1.6)+(1*1.6*3) = 8.9

Libs going to be multi attacking during Insurgency more often and very likely to be overflowing more often.

This was with a +30-40% damage Scarlet Delirium, but still, haha.

I know I'm slacking on my Lib guide, but its coming I swear.

Here's a little calculator I threw together for determining the Store TP needed for a 3hit build with Liberator. Its pretty basic but I *think* it should be adequate.

Liberator 3hit build calculator
I'd appreciate some feedback on it. Most calculators out there seem to ignore WS phase store TP, but that is pretty necessary for Lib when building around things like Abyssal Beads/+1/+2, Ratri Cuisses/+1 and /Sam.

Have you completed your Augments on Liberator?
Just curious as that would give another 15% to your Insurgency damage.

This guy needs to come back and do some insane ***with Lib and make more videos
Good time to come back Primex.

Yo, that dat mod is suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper gay doe.

This is the DRK thread, I'm sure he would take that as a compliment.

Don't abandon your emo roots my dear DRK community. Be #proud.

So I bought a Nicander's Necklace by accident fooling around on the Auction House, so I decided to test out damage taken with it on for Scarlet Delirium.

Went into Dynamis Valkurm and fought a Sabotender and got an odd result... 5/5 NQ Ratri set + Eluder's Satchet = +47% Damage Taken. Nicander's +10% Phys. Damage Taken should naturally bring you to +57% PDT.

I faintly remember asking the question on here years ago if PDT+/DT+ went over the 50% ceiling and being told yes.

Anywho, 2,000 Needles did 3171 damage; 4,000 Needles did 6343 damage. Both moves ending in an odd number threw me off immediately. I'm no math wiz but I whittled it down to * 1.5857 ~ 1.5858.

-Went back into Dynamis - Valkurm, and repeated the test with just Nicander's on; 4,000 Needles came out to 4,406 damage. So * 1.1015

-Ran third test with just NQ Ratri 5/5, listed number is +45%. 4,000 Needles did 5,883 damage for * 1.47075