Dark Knight Guides and Useful LinksFollow

With the recent threads deserving a sticky, i would like to construct a thread filled with many guides and useful links to keep things accessible without the flood of sticky's on the front page of our forum.

before i get into the copy/paste. i would like to make my own small guide within this page. reason is, we're lacking general DRK guides.

Intro-
Dark Knight is an advanced job. Meaning you must have a level 30 job or higher in order to do the quest in order to be a DRK.

I suggest you get a good feel about the role of a DRK before you actually be one with the beginning jobs such as warrior, thief, and black mage.

We use long delay weapons and deal damage like a Warrior.
We unleash powerful weapon skills in a short period of time with sneak attack+WS like a Thief.
We use black magic to deal extra damage and debuff like a Black mage.

You can say DRK is all 3 jobs in 1. level atleast 1 of those jobs to atleast 30, and your knowledge on DRK's role in a PT will be greater so you wont feel too much of a newb, and becoming a very successful DRK.

Preparation-
If you have warrior up to atleast 30, PLEASE try and level Scythe, Great Sword, and Great Axe in your spare time. You'll prepare your DRK and offering party more skillchain possibilities. this will no doubt improves your PT invites and performance.

Great Sword: Power Slash opens Distortion for Thieves a lot earlier than Vorpal Scythe.
Great Axe: Sturmwind owns. if you're a WAR using Great Axe, you know what i mean!
Scythe: Our A+ Weapon. scythe WS isnt the best compared to the 2 weapons mentioned above for damage in early levels but the WS from 60+ is very rewarding.

Magic-
Use Drain and Aspir frequently. Drain does good damage and you can get back MP with aspir if you use it on a target that have MP. crabs and worms are excellent examples. you'll be fighting these a lot, and you even fight them in popular XP spots early on such as Valkurm Dunes,Korroloka Tunnle(sp?), and Qufim Island.

By using them as early as much as possible, you're keeping your Dark Magic capped before you actually get absorb spells. absorb spells is what makes DRK unique. no other melee job can help the entire party work more effectively by absorbing the enemy's stats.

Crafts-
Cooking is a great craft to pick up for DRK. it is a very cheap craft to skill up, yet very very helpful. you can make juice for your party, cook your own meat dishes, and save money just by making your own food/drink!

ok i think thats all i got to say, on with the links!!!

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General Guides
1. Dark Knight Guide covering many aspects of this job by Orikenus Quick Hands.
2. Useful Dark Knight macros.
3. DRK mentors on server by Mozyr.

Other Guides
1. Guide to solo rank 3 Dragon as a Dark Knight by Kelve.
2. A Guide to Dark Knight soloing by Deadsider.
3. Charging Shield guide by Ilean.
4. AF+1 Guide by xXMalevolentXx. NEW!

Equipment
1. Dark Knight Artifact Armor Guide by Dracosavarian.
2. Dark Knight equipment guide from level 1-75 by Spicynoodle.
3. Crossbows, good or bad?
4. Dark Knight Weapon Skill Damage Modifiers by Caj.
5. New DRK equipment from October patch by Spicynoodle.

Subjobs
1. Subjob FAQ by SirLavitzgamer.
2. The ultimate DRK subjob guide by Lordus.

Food
1. The power of Sole sushi!
2. Tips on helpful foods/drinks for DRK by Errors.

Job Abilities
1. Enhance Souleater research by Shihli.
2. Souleater 101 by emilyia.
3. SATA+WS questions and answers.

Magic
1. Aspir scroll, how do i get enough fame?
2. FAQ regarding Absorb Spells.
3. Saboruto's guide to getting fast, cheap, easy fame. By Saboruto.
4. DRK/BLM spells by shetanta. NEW!

Skill up
1. Wondering where to skill up? Look here!
2. Skill up guide by Freewindbahamut.
3. Skill cap chart. Tells you the cap of each skill of every job.

Quest
1. Spiral hell walkthrough by Spicynoodle.
2. Ground Strike walkthrough by Spicynoodle.

Genkai 5
1. Genkai 5. Guide to defeat the old man.
2. Is defeating Maat at level 66 possible?
3. Ilean's video of his Maat fight NEW!

Skillchain
1. Alvehyanna's skillchain chart
2. Aden's skillchain chart 3.2
3. DranoK's skillchain calculator

Other useful links
1. Maps of every zone in Vana'Diel
2. Info on every WS quests
3. Pictures of every race/gender with RSE and AF1-2
4. Mystery Tour. Sorta the japanese Allakhazam without the forums and rate down trolls.
5. You wanna learn japanese? Go here for some simple phrases^^
6. Treasure Map to make your coffer/chest finding a lot easier!
7. FFXI-Atlas.

Fun
1. FFXI shooting game. try it out when you have nothing to do while seeking PT^^
2. DRK drawings :P

feel free to correct any mistakes or if you would like to request a link to be in this list. big thanks for all the people who contributed useful information for this forum!

edit: changed some titles of links.
edit: added Ground Strike guide and FFXI atlas to links.
edit: added DRK mentors on server, and Charging Shield guide.
edit: added Ilean's maat video.
edit: added AF+1 guide.
edit: added drk/blm spells~

Edited, Thu Mar 17 12:31:04 2005 by SpicyNoodle

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Nice job Spicy.
Thanks for putting my Sub Job guide on their too ^^

Edited, Mon Oct 31 18:14:13 2005 by SirLavitzgamer

great post, rate up

nice post, bump

sweet. this thread definitely needs to be stickied.

One thing though. Power Slash opens Distortion, not Hard Slash. Hard Slash can close it though.

Can someone please please please sticky this, this is great.

Frosty the Snowman
Was a jolly happy soul
With a corncob pipe and a button nose
And two eyes made out of coal

Frosty the Snowman
Is a fairytale they say
He was made of snow
But the children know
How he came to life one day

There must have been some magic
In that old silk hat they found
For when they placed it on his head
He began to dance around

Frosty the Snowman
Was alive as he could be
And the children say
He could laugh and play
Just the same as you and me

Frosty the Snowman
Knew the sun was hot that day
So he said let's run
And we'll have some fun
Now before I melt away

Down to the village
With a broomstick in his hand
Running here and there all around the square
Saying catch me if you can

He led them down the streets of town
Right to the traffic cop
And he only paused a moment when
He heard him holler stop

Frosty the Snowman
Had to hurry on his way
But he waved goodbye
Saying don't you cry
I'll be back again some day

Bumpety Bump Bump
Bumpety Bump Bump
Look at Frosty go
Bumpety Bump Bump
Bumpety Bump Bump
Over the hills of snow

Edited, Sat Apr 23 14:18:35 2005 by Grimmsfeld

Emphasis on...

Please Sticky this so we can stop
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Kudos to teh L33t sPiCy R^

Why is it people decide to bump this AFTER I bump it back onto the front page...?
Ok, how about this...if you're gonna bump this thread while it's still on the front page, make it intereseting, at least(see "Frosty the Snowman.")

Edited, Sat Apr 30 02:09:50 2005 by Grimmsfeld

nice guide, thanks.

Bump. Was looking for weapon mods and I remember you started this thread...surprisingly it hasn't been stuck yet :/

A week goes by...
BUMP

Sticky please?

I requested this be stickied HERE. Some of you may want to chime in on that thread to make sure it happens.

Nice compilation spicy, here are a couple of my own contributions that i think are good enough to be listed in the OP:

1-Charging shield guide: covers all from getting the pop item to killing the NM.
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/jobs.html?fjob=6&mid=1112674974654051594&num=7

2-Maat fight video: i totally and easily kicked maat's ass, worth a watch for those who still need to do it.
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/jobs.html?fjob=6&mid=1111868065620229622&num=19

3-Updated WS modifiers: i sugest you replace your current WS modifiers post with this one, it is updated with no more ??? modifiers and provides insight on other factors that affect WS damage.
http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/db/jobs.html?fjob=6&mid=1115900016242764873&num=23

That always happens when i have to leave the house.

its finally sticky'd^^ thanks admin and the people who have shown support and find this thread useful.

im quitting ffxi for a while and been busy lately, but i'll manage to edit this thread whenever i have the time and with that stupid error gone :)

So my CoP guide isn't useful enough? Awww ._.

Ah, lazy. Perfectly understandable. *salute*

Take care spicy, sorry to see you go. I'm far too lazy to take over though.

Just so you know, there is an excellent guide on skill ups and weapon skill level on the WAR forums.

send me a PM or post here about what links u want me to add and i'll get to work =]

check the new thread i added in equipment. tell me whatcha think.

Hey very good links thats for the help.


I just started DRK a few weeks ago so i'll be back to see more

i noticed you're posting again. girlfriend dump you?