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Melee Damage: Basic stuff, just swing your weapon around and hit something. But! What matters is hitting your target hard, accurately, and as quickly as possible. You also have two main weapons to choose from: Scythe (A*+ Skill ranking) and Great Sword (A* Skill ranking). You also be factoring values like "Occasionally Attacks X" and Multi-Attack traits (Double Attack, Triple Attack, Quadruple Attack), and Store TP into your TP sets.
- Scythes have the highest Damage and Delay ratings among all the weapons in the game, meaning you will deal harder "white" damage. They're slightly slower to hit with, but you will accumulate more TP in the process & use weapon skills sooner. This makes a great option for Skillchain utility & Dark Magic effectiveness.
- Great Sword is a whole different beast. You will be dealing more white damage and less TP due to their lower delay, offering more DoT as well as raw damage in the process.

Weapon Skills: Whether you like to think outside the box, or just slice-and-dice your way through enemies, it's recommended to use both types of Weapon Skills to your advantage. Whichever is your favorite is a matter of personal preference.
- Scythes While in possession of having the highest damage and delay ratings of any weapon in the game, are less about raw damage and more about utility. Your Key Weapons Skills will be Cross Reaper, Entropy, Catastrophe (for Apocalypse users), & Insurgency (for Liberator users).
- Great Swords are practically built for raw, full-on damage. Sickle Moon, Spinning Slash and Ground Strike were used in a variety of places in EXP and Endgame, allowing DRK to gain some fair amount of respect for certain Endgame Events. Your Key weapon skills will consist of the following: Resolution, Torcleaver, Scourge (for Ragnarok users), and Shockwave (for EXP/CP burning/Crowd Control).

Dark Magic: Your most proficient spell category, in tandem with the job's theme. While Black Mages have equal skill in this category, Dark Knights have the widest selection. However, casting mid-battle will cut your overall damage down, so this must be used situationally. Typically, the most useful spells for melee-heavy battles will be Stun, Endark/Endark II, Absorb- TP. Drain/Drain II can be helpful in emergencies, and Dread Spikes for extra protection. For pure debuffing, you have your Absorb Spells to work with. You will want to build a decent Dark Magic Skill+ set, as many of these spells' potencies rely on your Dark Magic skill. A Fast Cast set will help you cast your spells faster, because the sooner you finish casting, the better.

Tanking/Soloing: Tanking will require some more advanced work, involving just about all of your gear. Dark Knight is a Glass Cannon, and your fragility will result in taking more damage in comparison to Paladins, Rune Fencers and Blue Mages. Depending on your subjob of choice, it will either make all the difference, or it will give you some difficulty. Gear sets that stack on a combination of Haste, Physical Damage Taken-%, Magic Damage Taken-%, or Damage Taken-% (which factors both PDT and MDT), will reduce the amount of damage you take. It's recommended that you have the Relic Weapon, Apocalypse, for maintaining your HP. Otherwise, you'll need a decent healer to make sure you don't soak up too much MP.

Depending on how you plan to play Dark Knight, it's all a matter of preference. However, a dedicated Dark Knight will use anything they have in their arsenal, and you'll have to know which weapons and magic are appropriate for the job.



/SAM: Using this subjob will often help make your 7/6-hits become 6/5-hits with Store TP trait, depending on your current build and your weapon of choice. Some Tanking ability is also provided with Seigan+Third Eye. Hasso is to back you up for when Last Resort disappears, and provides some Extra STR and Accuracy that wouldn't hurt to use. Use this Subjob for more Skillchain utility.

/WAR: The total zergfest Support Job. Berserk, Warcry, Aggressor, and Double Attack (10%) adds top-of-the-line offensive utility for any DD, including Dark Knight. This is the subjob to go to for any kind of zerg. Just make sure you don't get yourself killed.

/DNC: This is one of your best options for soloing. It opens your library of self-healing ability with Waltzes, as well as Sambas- Drain Samba for some extra HP drain, or Haste Samba for some self-hasting capability when no one is around to haste you.

/NIN: Utsusemi and Dual Wield come specifically with this subjob, though it doesn't offer much else. Tonko and Monomi are handy for when you need to save gil on Silent Oils/Prism Powders.

/THF: This used to be well-implemented for stacking Sneak Attack (and now Trick Attack as well) with your Weapon Skills on HNMs in RotZ/CoP content. If you plan on farming a thing or two, keep this on hand just in case. Flee can help you get a move-on with quests, retreat from a sticky solo situation, and...well, what's not to like about zipping through the wilderness at twice the movement speed? However, if you have THF99 with decent gear already... "Chaaange...job! Kupopopooo!" (no offense, of course.)

/RDM: Consider this for Fast Cast if you're thinking of exploiting your Dark magic while soloing some way using Scythe. While it doesn't offer as much offensive utility, you'll get Cures, an extra bit of MP, plus refresh, for tanking with Dread Spikes. Using the Weapon Skill Entropy refills your MP for you, so convert won't be necessary.

/DRG: This was once a situational sub, for its ability to deal some extra damage and TP with Jumps, but in learning that /SAM and /WAR provide better overall TP damage over the amount of time you wait on jumps to recharge, this subjob's efficiency dwindles.

/RUN: Rune Fencer has some interesting tanking tools to play with, if you're willing to experiment with it. Runes can exploit an enemy's elemental weaknesses and bolster against its elemental strengths. Wards can enhance resistance against elemental damage and debuffs, and Effusions can offer some damage-dealing potential to manage hate. You can even boost your accuracy and evasion somewhat with Swordplay. However, you will have a maximum of two runes active at a time, and most of RUN's game-changing spells & abilities are only available from level 50 to level 99.

/MNK: Specifically an Abyssea-based build for low-man tanking and developed by Gradd, this build relies on Counterstance as your means of Tanking- instead of Utsusemi or Seigan/Third Eye. HP Boost increases your chance of survival, and Boost is a nice tool for your Weapon Skill when you need the damage increase.



Job Abilities

Lv.1 - Blood Weapon [Recast: 1:00:00, Duration: 00:00:30]
This ability is taken from the Blood equipment set of previous Final Fantasy games, notably from the recurring Blood Sword and Blood Lance weapons. For 30 seconds, every melee hit will drain your target's HP. For emergency purposes such as going into Red HP when your healer's down, this is often unreliable- you run the risk of being pummeled into the ground as well due to your weapon's delay holding this ability back. This example doesn't render the ability useless, though. It makes a perfect icing on the cake for zergs when you're expecting to take damage. Unfortunately though, it doesn't work on undead. Because how do you kill that which has no life?!

Lv.5 - Arcane Circle
Nice to have on hand when you're fighting Arcana, and like the other "Circle" abilities, your party members will gain arcana killer, and a +15% resistance/damage bonus against Arcana. Helps if you do events like Sky, where many Arcana-type enemies wander about, and it'll work even on Khimaira-type or Caturae-Type enemies.

Lv.15 - Last Resort [Recast: 00:05:00, Duration: 00:03:00] (Recast Merits can push it down to 00:04:10)
The bread and butter of a Dark Knight's attack potential. The base effect will increase your total attack will be increased by 15%, and your defense will decrease by 15% as well. 5/5 Last Resort Effect Merits will increase the effect of this ability by an additional 10% on both sides. This Job Ability is especially important to keep on at all times, due to the Desperate Blows trait, a meritable job trait that will give you +25% job ability haste. At that point, you can watch your damage potential fly through the roof. In the past, the duration was previously 30 seconds, which made Dark Knight very limited in its damage potential. Thankfully, raising the duration to 3 minutes was perhaps the smartest thing Square Enix ever did for this job.

Lv.20 - Weapon Bash [Recast: 00:03:00]
Your first "Stun" ability. Since it's an instant ability, it's very effective for stunning dangerous TP moves, and has a near-100% chance of doing so. It'll even go through shadows, so do not hesitate to use this JA when things are rough.

Lv.30 - Souleater [Recast: 00:06:00, Duration: 00:01:00]
Souleater is very potent for dealing extra damage that stacks on top of TP Damage & Weapon Skills, for the price of 10% of your current HP. It even gives an Accuracy+25 bonus, helping you land more hits per round. However, only a select few NMs will end up resisting Souleater, due to zergs using Souleater+Blood Weapon in the past using Kraken Clubs. It pissed off SE pretty good, too. And it'll especially piss off the target with the increased damage you'll be doing!

Lv.55 - Consume Mana [Recast: 00:00:00, Duration: 00:01:00 ]
A Job Ability that will make use of your spare MP for your next attack. It will add 1 base damage to the attack for every 10mp consumed, so if you have a decent MP pool and you're not doing anything with your magic, go nuts. If you have Entropy as a Merited Weapon Skill, you can easily recover your MP after using this ability.

Lv.78 - Nether Void [Recast: 00:05:00, Duration: 00:01:00/until Dark Magic spell is casted]
A nifty tool to have on hand for Absorb-Spells and Drains/Aspirs. This JA Increases the potency of the next Absorb or Drain Dark Magic by 50%, so stacking this with any of your Absorb Spells (except for Absorb-TP) makes your debuffing abilities a little more potent.

Lv.87 - Arcane Crest [Recast: 00:05:00, Duration: 00:03:00]
Like Arcane Circle, but instead it's a direct debuff towards Arcana-type monsters- It Lowers accuracy, evasion, magic accuracy, magic evasion and TP gain for arcana, all in one job ability.

Lv.95 - Scarlet Delirium [Recast: 00:03:00, Duration: 00:03:00]
This job ability will absorb the amount of damage taken and turn it into attack/magic attack, and the boost lasts for 90 seconds. The catch to this job ability is that it only absorbs one hit of damage taken. It's best reserved for AoE/high-damage TP moves that mobs will occasionally fire off.

Lv.96 - Soul Enslavement [Recast: 01:00:00, Duration: 00:00:30]
This beastly 1-Hour ability will drain any TP accumulated by the target, making it an ideal ability to use for Zerging. Depending on your weapon, you'll drain between 45-55 per hit. Enjoy your Weapon Skill frenzy!

Job Traits

Attack Bonus - Increases Attack/Ranged Attack.
Lv10 - Tier 1 (+10) / Lv30 - Tier 2 (+22)
Lv50 - Tier 3 (+35) / Lv70 - Tier 4 (+48)
Lv76 - Tier 5 (+60) / Lv83 - Tier 6 (+72)
Lv91 - Tier 7 (+84) / Lv99 - Tier 8 (+96)

Critical Attack Bonus - Increases Critical Attack Damage.
Lv.85 - Tier 1 (+5%) / Lv.99 - Tier 2 (+8%)

Smite - Increases Power of Physical Attacks when using a Two-Handed Weapon (or Hand-to-Hand).
Lv15 - Tier 1 (+9.7%) / Lv35 - Tier 2 (+14.8%)
Lv.55 - Tier 3 (+19.9%) / Lv75 - Tier 4 (+25.0%)
Lv.95 - Tier 5 (++29.6%)

Desperate Blows - Reduces delay for two-handed weapons while under the effect of Last Resort.
Lv15 - Tier 1 (-5%) / Lv30 - Tier 2 (-10%)
Lv45 - Tier 3 (-15%)

Stalwart Soul - Reduces HP consumption with Souleater active. It's great for... *sunshades* ...fleshing it out.
Lv45 - Tier 1 (-20%) / Lv75 - Tier 2 (-40%) / Lv90 - Tier 3 (-50%)

Occult Acumen - Grants TP based on MP consumed while dealing damage with Dark/Elemental Magic.
Lv45 - Tier 1 (+2.5% MP) / Lv58 - Tier 2 (+5% MP) / Lv71 - Tier 3 (+7.5% MP)
Lv84 - Tier 4 (+10% MP) / Lv97 - Tier 5 (+12.5% MP)

Resist Paralyze - Self-Explanatory, lol
Lv20 - Tier 1 / Lv40 - Tier 2
Lv60 - Tier 3 / Lv75 - Tier 4

Tactical Parry - Gives TP when an attack is Parried
Lv88 - Tier 1 (2TP/parry)
Lv98 - TIer 2 (3TP/parry)

Arcana Killer - Occasionally Intimidates Arcana-type monsters
Lv25 - Tier 1

Muted Soul (Merit) - Reduces Enmity when using Souleater. 1 Merit = -10 Enmity

Magic

Casting spells requires precise timing and situational awareness to make the most out of them. Here's your repertoire:

Dark Magic (A-)
Drain/Drain II/Drain III*
Bio/Bio II
Aspir/Aspir II
Endark/Endark II*
Dread Spikes
Stun/Absorb-TP
Absorb-STR/Absorb-DEX/Absorb-ACC
Absorb-AGI/Absorb-VIT/Absorb-Attri
Absorb-INT/Absorb-MND/Absorb-CHR
Tractor

*Earned as Gifts from Job Points.

Drain/Drain II/Drain III & Aspir/Aspir II are your go-to spells if you need a quick boost in HP/MP recovery. Drain II is especially important for when you want to buff your Maximum HP, because Nether Void increases its potency to a degree where you want to combo them when necessary. Combine Nether Void with Dark Seal for less-resisted Drain II/III.

Absorb spells were updated several updates ago to have their casting times decreased, allowing for the player to possess a larger incentive to utilize them more often.
Endark's attack increase is based on your Dark Magic skill (Starting D=(Dark magic skill/20)*2.5+12.5, every 20 points in skill adds 2.5 to starting value rounded down). Cast this at any opportunity you can get to boost your damage output.

Dread Spikes will protect you from incoming damage by converting damage dealt from the enemy into absorbing its HP. It's a useful defensive measure, whether if you're off-tanking, soloing, or just putting the cards on your table in case you snag enmity.

Absorb-TP requires some timing to use well. You want to anticipate for when the enemy is about to fire off its TP Moves. If you don't cast it before the enemy uses its TP moves, it will not absorb much or any TP at all.

Stun: It stuns the enemy. Just swap in your Dark Magic set for it. Because it fires off incredibly fast. Like the AO-63 your Russian relative's uncle keeps in the basement as an heirloom to his service with the Spetznaz.

Elemental Magic (B+)
Stone/Stone II/Stone III
Water/Water II/Water III
Aero/Aero II/Aero III
Fire/Fire II/Fire III
Blizzard/Blizzard II/Blizzard III
Thunder/Thunder II/Thunder III

I won't be sugar-coating this when I say that you won't be nuking like a Black Magic with these spells, given the lack of magic attack bonus gear and traits to support it. The least you can do with them, situationally, is by using them to gain TP by means of Occult Acumen.

Enfeebling (C)
Poison/Poison II/Poisonga
Sleep/Sleep II
Bind/Break

If you want to be taking advantage of Sleeps, Bind and Break for soloing and add control, I would suggest either obtaining an enfeebling set for less resists or putting in merits (especially if you have enfeebling merits carried over from RDM). Poison, if it lands, can be stacked with Bio II if the mob needs to be DoT-Debuffed.



Group 1:
Last Resort Recast 5/5
Last Resort Effect 5/5
Weapon Bash Recast 0/5
Souleater Recast 0/5
Arcane Circle Recast 0/5

- Last Resort Recast and Last Resort Effect will help improve the overall damage you do with Last Resort up, so it is imperative that you increase these two options to full. Souleater Recast will not do much for you, as it lasts for only a minute compared to Last Resort's 3-minute duration. While Weapon Bash is certainly useful, 3 minutes is fair to leave it at. Arcane Circle Recast is simply not worth meriting for overall usage.

Group 2:
Desperate Blows Effect 5/5
Diabolic Eye 4/5 or 0/5*
Dark Seal 1/5 or 5/5*
Muted Soul 0/5

- Desperate Blows Effect is a MUST! 1 Merit point equals an additional 2% Delay Reduction. All five points add up to an additional 10%, which brings your total delay reduction to -25% when using a two-handed weapon. It will give you a HUGE advantage in Melee Damage, and in the speed in which you deal it. Stack it with Haste, Marches and Embrava for maximum performance.
- Diabolic Eye is great to have when you're having trouble landing consistent hits on your target- For -15% of your health, you will get +20 Accuracy, and +5 to any further merit points you upgrade the Ability with. Simply put, 5/5 will put you at +40 Melee Accuracy.
-Dark Seal is a nifty tool for when your Dark Magic is resisting, or if you want a spell to land for sure. It functions pretty much like Elemental Seal for Dark Magic, so depending on how you play, taking an extra point out of Diabolic Eye for Dark Seal isn't a bad idea at all.
-Muted Soul, However, is unimportant to merit. At any point when you use Souleater, the distribution of enmity being shared between DDs and Tanks will make this trait pointless.

*Consider the option of 0/5 Diabolic Eye and 5/5 Dark Seal if you can cap or nearly cap your physical accuracy. This will not only apply a fast-cast effect to your non-absorb Dark Magic, but the lack of an ability with a -15% Health Penalty is welcome.


Capacity Points and Job Points are a relatively new group of parameters you can increase specifically for your job. You gain Capacity Points to earn Job Points, which you can spend to increase the Categories you are offered to increase. You will be able to increase each parameter up to a maximum of twenty times.

Category	Description	Effect
Blood Weapon Effect	Increases the amount of HP absorbed under the effects of Blood Weapon.	Increases the amount of HP absorbed by 2 percent.
Soul Enslavement Effect	Increases the amount of TP absorbed under the effects of Soul Enslavement.	Increase amount of TP absorbed by 1 percent.
Arcane Circle Effect	Reduces the amount of damage taken from arcana under the effects of Arcane Circle.	Reduces damage taken by 1.
Last Resort Effect	Increases physical attack under the effects of Last Resort.	Increases physical attack by 2.
Souleater Duration	Increases the effect duration of Souleater.	Increase effect duration by 1 second.
Weapon Bash Effect	Increases damage dealt with Weapon Bash.	Increase damage dealt by 10.
Nether Void Effect	Increase the amount absorbed by dark magic spells under the effects of Nether Void.	Increases amount by 2%. Increases number of statuses absorbed by Absorb-Attri by 1 per 10 points.
Arcane Crest Duration	Increases effect duration of Arcane Crest.	Increase effect duration by 1 second.
Scarlet Delirium Duration	Increases effect duration of Scarlet Delirium.	Increases effect duration by 1 second.
Endark effect	Increases add. dark damage & phys. attack under the effects of Endark. Hidden Bonus: Increases phys. accuracy.	Increases damage, physical attack & physical accuracy by 1.

• credits to Stani for this segment below

The trademark characteristic of Dark Knight is that with Desperate Blows merits, Last Resort will add 25% (likely around 253/1024) Haste in the Job Ability (JA) category. This is hugely important because with that much JA haste, and a few magic haste buffs from your support, you will be able to cap your delay reduction with less than 26% in gear haste. This means that you will be able to:

* Pile on more sTP to lower your x-hit
* Stack more multi-attack to boost your swings per round
* Swap in more Accuracy or Attack gear
* Be one of the more effective DDs in a Hybrid TP+Damage Taken- set
* Wear whatever else you wanted to, but couldn't because you had to wear Haste pieces.

How much gear haste you need to wear to cap delay reduction with LR/DB will depend on the magic haste buffs you're getting. Generally speaking, it will take a combination of Haste, March(es), and/or Embrava to cap your delay reduction with less than 26% gear haste. With LR and capped magic haste, you'll be able to wear as little as 12% gear haste while maintaining capped delay reduction. Keep in mind that when LR wears off, DB becomes inactive and you'll have to switch back to wearing the full 26% gear haste.

That's the general idea, now on to the specific amounts of gear haste that are to be worn with various magic haste amounts:


The gear haste values were left in x/1024 because the exact haste value for different pieces of equipment can varry by how much haste it provides. Pieces with 1-4% haste are 10/1024 haste per 1% listed. This means that you get a little less than what you might think, 10/1024 is actually .9765% haste. On pieces with 5% or more haste, however, Square has taken to adding an extra 1/1024, to keep the haste contribution on the x/1024 scale closer to the percent listed. 50/1024 = .488, 51/1025 = .498.

Because of this, if you were to put on 10 pieces of 2% haste, you'd be at 200/1024 haste, but if you put on 4 pieces of 5% haste, you'd be at 204/1024. Keep this in mind if you're shooting for a target ending in 2 or 4/1024 haste, you may be able to hit that target without overshooting.

Luckily, most of those 40 or so haste situations are unlikely and only included for completeness' sake. The four sets that I would recommend to anyone looking to get the most out of Last Resort would be:

1) Uncapped delay reduction: 26% gear haste. No marches or embrava, this is your standard TP set. You might gain from wearing 5*5% pieces for 255/256 gear haste here, but 26% is fine too.
2) Marches: 16% gear haste if you ever expect Marches +3, 13% if you can gurantee Marches +4 (BRD AF3 hands and Langleik or Gjallarhorn95), 12% if you can gurantee Marches +5 (BRD AF3 hands and Gjallarhorn99). x/1024 not a factor here, listed %s are fine.
3) Embrava+Haste: 21% gear haste if there's a chance that the SCH is a naked alt or someone who just doesn't care, 17% if it's capped potency. I'd go with 21 to accept all levels of Embrava, and move on with life. You can get away with 4*5% haste pieces = 204/206 gear haste here.
4) Capped magic haste: 12% gear haste, listed % values are fine. Go nuts.
*) Keep in mind that Apocalypse AM haste is counted as gear haste(75-119 II)/job ability haste(119 III).



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Delve

If you're in the market for Naakual Crafting Ingredients, some iLvl.119 gear, and hot loads of Mweya Plasm to speed up the process, then Delve is the event for you! For now, I'll be covering boss strategies in the Delve Fractures, since they are some of the most extremely hard bosses in the game.

Ceizak Battlegrounds:

Muyingwa (Fracture Boss):

Morimar Basalt Fields:

Tojil (Fracture Boss):

• Blistering Roar is first used right at full health. It will use it again each 25% HP threshold- second time at 75%, third at 50%, and fourth at 25%. It will also gain a Flame Cloak effect, which enables him to use a specific set of TP Abilities: Pyroclastic Surge, Batholithic Shell, and Incinerating Lahar.

• You can dispel the Flame Cloak Aura by dealing elemental damage through one of the elements of level 2 skillchain properties: Wind/Thunder @ 100%, Dark/Earth @ 75%, Light/Fire @ 50%, Water/Ice @ 25%. Try setting up light/darkness skillchains that will help your mages deal more damage through magic bursts.

• Incinerating Lahar has the potential to totally wipe out your party, as it deals a severe amount of AoE damage to your party or alliance. If you have decent Dark Magic accuracy, be on the lookout for Incinerating Lahar and help your mages by casting Stun when Tojil is about to use it. Volcanic Stasis is another ability to watch out for- it will Terrorize your entire group long enough for him to go through a buff cycle. However, if your mages are on point with stuns, you may not need to worry about it as much as Incinerating Lahar.

• Tojil also has certain points in time where he becomes resistant to certain types of physical damage. Between 100%~75% HP, He will take half damage, but non-elemental damage such as Formless Strikes will deal 100% damage to him. Since you don't have anything like Formless Strikes in your repertoire, you'll want to have Endark up to help you make up for the cut on damage dealt. By 74%-50% HP, he will take increased piercing damage. Keep up your attacks as usual. By 49%~25%, he will take increased Slashing damage- this is your time to shine. Make use of this vulnerability by popping everything you've got from Blood Weapon/Soul Enslavement/Souleater/etc to slice and dice your way through towards the 25% mark. After that, he will take increased Blunt damage from less than 24% to the end of the fight- A perfect time for your group's MNK(s) to finish him off.

(Remember when learning to take down Tojil used to take up to at least a week? Pepperidge Farm Remembers.)

Foret de Hennetiel:

Daquwaka (Fracture Boss):

Marjami Ravine:

Cailimh (Fracture Boss):

Yorcia Weald:

Wopket (Fracture Boss):

Kamihr Drifts:

Utkux (Fracture Boss):

Dynamis
Dark Knight in Dynamis is best paired with a THF when low-man farming, both subbing /DNC for Job Ability-based Staggers. Usually this will involve spamming Steps and Tier 1 Flourishes together, since they have the lowest recast timers of all the jobs in the game. Alternatively, if you're soloing, you can chance it by setting up some Trust NPCs to fight with you, but you may end up with a lower currency count by the end of the run. Instead, make use of your Trusts when taking down Time Extension NMs.

For WS Staggering, if you have a low-damage multi-hit weapon, use low-tier WS that won't take a chunk off the target. AoE WS such as Spinning Scythe/Shockwave may have a chance to stagger any WS-Weakness Target. If you're going against a more formidable NM in Dynamis, trying to proc with your high-damage WS will perhaps do the trick just as well.

Magic Staggers are mostly not recommended, as they require an entire library of magic to use in order to stagger a target with magic.

Dynamis Lord & Arch-Dynamis Lord

Dynamis Lord this day and age will be a cinch, but Arch-Dynamis will require some finesse. Here's a battle strategy of how the fight works:

<100%HP: Will use a combination of Oblivion Smash, Tera Slash, Violent Rupture, Dynamic Implosion, Transfusion, Mana Storm, and/or Dynamic Assault.
~50%HP: Shadow Clone, immediately disengages you. /assist the group's designated assist in engaging the target. This is a 50/50 chance at targeting the real ADL, so be on guard if your assist ends up getting the clone.
<49%HP: With either the Clone or ADL engaged, best go full throttle here
<15%HP: Stunners (including yourself if needed) watch for his Terror attack, not getting this stunned will flat-out kill your chances of a victory.


General Help:
FFXICalc: for Calculating ACC, Store TP, Haste, Skillchains and Such

Damage and DPS Calculation:
Motenten's DPS Spreadsheets for TP and WS Comparison (Perfectly usable with a Google Account using Google Docs to copy your own, edit, and save into GDrive)

Formulae & Mechanics:
Calcuating Weapon Skill Damage
TP Bonus

OAX/MultiAttack Calculation:
Sylow's OAX/Multi-Attack Guide
OAX/Multi-Attack spreadsheet for easy calculation.

Gearswap:

Gear Credits:
Quetzacoatl, Thorva, Ruaumoko, Bloodlusty, Ganno.

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