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

Wouldn't know. I don't usually use schere unless I'm using Foenaria. Unless I'm foing kalunga or something where I don't want to pull hate.

Was there an updated guide for this made?

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Ahhh k then heh.

Then a few quick questions:

-Is it worth getting a Ragnarok if you have a Calad?
- Currently fulltiming Caladbolg. But having GA, GS, sword, and Scythe access... is it better to stick to one weapon during a fight or should you rotate? Like, switching to Apoc to for Catastrophe for HP or entropy MP, or GA for armour/full break? Or to skill chain with another weapon.

Largely no, it can do okay at 1k TP but it quickly falls off after that, its best use is to 3~ step light but its better just to spam torc tbh with another easier to acquire GS.


Situational really but outside of primes, raw DPS favors calad torc spam, not to say scythe can't compete with that and scythe does offer actual SC flexibility whereas gs is very narrow in its options.

Great axe is good to have for its breaks and if you lack a rema the ambu GA is a very solid option and also helps get you into the rhythm of keeping Drain 3s HP boost going where you are able to

To add regarding GA. Fell Cleave Drk is a force of nature. Definitely the best AOE option Dtk has IMO. You'd never want to use it for as an everyday weapon but having a macro for fell cleave and armor break i consider a must.

Hmmm okay, that helps narrow what my next REMA for DRK will be. I had considered Ragnarok since the ACC looked pretty nice on it for certain situations.

Is there a case for swapping weapons midfight to perform SCing as well? Or does Calad dominate that department as well?

I know drg and sam can do this but think it would be a hard sell on Drk and i honestly see zero point of it. Even if possible, youll be nerfing any ws that scales with tp for the sake of a sc that most like will not be better then qhat you could do staying with the best weapon. It's best to stick to one weapon per fight, unless you are opening with armor break and then swapping back to GS or Scythe.

Caladbolg offers simplicity. You get a two step light and all the other percs that come with the weapon (white dmg, a good easy sc, flexibility with other jobs to make good skillchains) at the cost of limiting skillchaing options because GS is among the worst weapon types for skillchain. If you're look8ng for more sc ability, Scythe is the way to go. 4 and 5 step darkness skillchains are very easy to make at the cost of weapon delay and typically weaker ws numbers (cross reaper and origin excluded).

Not sure what you're trying to do but I recommend just stick8ng with one weapon at a time.

Would suggest an apoc for utility purposes tbh


Not too much really, you carry a GA for breaks and the mentioned FC above and otherwise move to your preferred weapon of choice. You might be able to do something just messing around but spammings still probably the way to go

When I was bored, I used to multi step using Raetic Algol+1 and Father Time Path B. Losing TP wasn't much of a penalty when every weapon had follow up attacks.

Resolution > Torcleaver (Distortion) > Insurgency (Fusion) > Entropy (Gravitation) > Torcleaver (Darkness) > Quietus (Darkness [lvl.4])

Torcleaver > Insurgency (Fusion) > Resolution (Light) > Torcleaver (Light)

Resolution > Torcleaver (Distortion) > Insurgency (Fusion) > Resolution (Light) > Torcleaver (Light [lvl.4])

Entropy > Resolution (Fragmentation) > Insurgency (Light) > Torcleaver (Light [lvl.4])

Granted an occasional entropy was needed to keep MP top off, but it was entertaining.

It's just for funsies. It worked with NQ Raetic weapons when I had no REMAs and I was just grinding job points on Apex Pugils.

I don't think you'd want you swap out of Caladbolg anyways, as you lose AM3. DRK really isn't the job for that kind of optimization, or I should say it's unnecessary. You deal so much damage just with Torcleaver alone that it's not much of an advantage. Now Anguta/Redemption might be a different story