DRK/SAM Is Trash - A Safe Place For Unpopular Opinions From The Ffxiah Mob!

At least your not Dragoons...

Best weapon for segment farms by a mile. The SU5 path B. The tp gain is amazing, sometimes you get too 2k tp in 3 attack rounds and everything just melts to 60-80k Cross Reapers. If that doesn't kill it the instant 1k follow up entropy will.

I used to use calad but it was slow and overkill. Switched to liberator but getting aftermath up was a pain. SU5 is full time insane multiattack. You just burn through mobs, love it! Best trash mob weapon for farming. Great for dynamis too.

Sub /drg obviously, don't be a gimp...

I meant Gaol, where you don't have access to subjob, so there is no issue which is better XD

Everyone knows that sub DNC is the best option, so you can cap delay reduction without using Hasso and kneecapping your stun recast times. Are you guys even trying?

Ohh great idea, best benefit is you can still use Naegling!

Yeah, I know. I just saw your comment as a segway for more "controversial" recommendations.

Hasso doesn't cap delay reduction... Do you even DRK bro?

Hasso caps delay reduction when you use the superior sam/drk combination, bro.

I mean neither does Haste Samba. It's almost like my post was a joke. Like this thread.

DRK/WAR best sub though, because 12% DA which can proc on your weapon skills, the OAT from Su5 can't improve your WSD at all. Plus it has 513 delay, SLOW!

A joke thread..... Filled with harsh truths!

Isn't SAM/DRG > SAM/WAR?

The only thing that saddens me is I can't DRG/DRG

DRK/THF y'all done forgot about SATA baby. Party like it's 2003!

There was none of this haste capping, delay capping nonsense back then. You got your Haste 1 and said "thank you, sir." Then proceeded to miss 3 attack rounds in a row while munching on Mithkabobs.

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DRK/COR ftw.

DRK/COR ftw.

DRK/COR ftw.

Just imagining some poor soul starting FFXI for the first time, or a returning player from 2006, wanting to start DRK, asking people in game for guidance, and being directed to this site, encountering this thread.. and not realizing..
poor ***.

"Cut My Life In To Pieces, This Is My (Last Resort)!"

This thread makes my emo soul cry salty tears. Can't we all miss weaponskills at crucial moments and get along, no matter what the sub job? I miss the days when we all pulled together like that weird family at the end of the road nobody wants anything to do with.

LOL at suggesting this forum has actual usable guidance.

95% is absolute rubbish... "DRK/SAM is still a good combination!"

*Barf*

No... /slashes wrists

I consider "Hurt - Johnny Cash" the unofficial DRK theme song.

These new drama threads don't hold a candle to the Vize making a rema thread asking for a pat on the back...

Good *** times...

Now we have people who can't use a calculator

I'm not part of the debate, just an observer. But you're using parses to ascertain than /DRG > /SAM?
again, I'm neutral. I have no opinion. I've been gone too long. just trying to understand why /sam is garbage.

Good lord Vize.....hadn't thought about that idiot avatar of his staring back at me paired with just gems of...something.

Original NIN version destroys that so hard

Good thing he said "unofficial" because errybody knows what the official theme song is!

Ridiculous... Johnny was the real deal. NIN is a corporate product.

you wanna really blow your mind, look up the Eric Whitacre version.

So ole Johnny covered a corporate product

Psh.

Everyone knows that the Kermit version is the definitive one.

This is a safe place friend... No need for disclaimers.

Parsers mainly. Spreadsheet for gearing (10/10 the python dmg calculator if you haven't used it yet).

It's just stupidly obvious, I really don't understand why this is even controversial. Use both subs, see it with your own two eyes. Gear your jumps sets, time your last resort for engagement, it mops the floor with /sam.

Premaster levels, it might of been worth it still. When we're all hitting cap damage eventually then the stp from /sam might become relevant again. Until then /drg is king.

ALL hail the king of DRK subs!!!!!! These nonbelievers don't deserve you!

There was a time when WAR/SAM (post hasso update) and NIN/DRK (HNM days) were ridiculed too. I'll test it out. Just hope gearing for /drg doesn't mean I need another mule to hold my junk. I'm running out of names.
Got a link to that dmg calculator por favor?

I'm not totally insane (debatable). WAR/SAM for two-handed is better imo because WAR lacks any native job ability haste unlike DRK. For naegling WAR, /drg only.

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