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You got it for the most part

1)Gaxe till guillo is the way to go if you can skill up outside of parties. For guillo your main focus should be capping ACC, then just pump in str. Generally drk has enough atk to not worry about it between 2 handed bonus and traits. If your less buffed though and fighting harder targets since you wont have the merits it will be hard to get atk and acc high enough to really get good numbers with guillo and you might just want to switch to gsword for SS which has similar acc/atk bonuses as your SAM ws's so you can just load on the str.

2)It depends, most of the time in xp parties as long as your keeping it capped you will be fine, if your taking drk to harder events it's definitely something worth looking into, most of the dark magic gear is cheap anyway.

3)That's what I did, but you don't use DE in your souleater/BW zerg btw . . . a nice bit for after SE wears off so you can get that 20ACC though.

4) Best option for drk only imo, if you don't have anything better to do with it for other jobs that's the way to go, plus you can use it for shadow recast on war and sam as well.

5) That is what I recommend to people that can't afford to put in any combat merits and / or only want to get 1 scythe and gsword. Kind of depends on what your bringing drk to though, if your fighting weak stuff your capping ACC on then moli will start to pull ahead, but you will only be able to tell when parseing.

6) You got it, at 66 when you get spinning slash if you find your taking too much hate /war then /thf is a good way to avoid aggro and still get some damage increase unlike /nin. (btw don't bother with sata, just if you have tp early in the fight TA SS on the tank and solo SA, if you have tp later SA SS for pretty numbers.) Other than that, just go all out and kick some ass!

7) AF + 1 hands/feet for guillo . . . other than that the obvious stuff like adaberk, heca cap, etc.

EDIT: typo's, grammorz n what-not


Edited, May 7th 2009 10:14am by SillyXSara

I have nothing to add to this. I am posting only to look cool, Sara pretty much covered it all...

Snow covers Guilly and Spiral Hell, Insurgency is fire/light/dark, groundstrike is ice/water/thunder/wind, and spinning slash is thunder/wind.

Some Zerg info (I think that covers most of what you asked)

Meh I post a lot in the morning and uber late when im not 100% conscious . . .

If I had their numbers I'd have won PotM by a long shot lol

Black Cuisses. Expensive, but the #2 thing a DRK should wear, where #1 is Homam.

I'll try to get the black legs when the times comes, they're cheap anyway on my server(240k) ;)

Reading comprehension, GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Tbh I would TP in Askar and WS in black cuisses before Homam just because of the 8 acc askar gives out ;) Unless ppl have Barbbarossa legs that is ;) Go Bonanza :P

Guess i`ll shoot for a rank 3 prize at bonanza for homam legs xd or just plain wait it out to drop for me in limbus...In any case, I want 5 on 5 askar so I can use the HP bonus with the full set for a Diabolic Eye macro ^^


Edited, May 19th 2009 10:03am by hyunkyl

You may have heard that in terms of Black Mage merits or something, where Magic Accuracy would then apply to all magic.

We have a lot more Dark Magic+ gear than MAcc+, and on top of this Dark Magic will help your Drain/DrainII/Aspir for more effect.

Dark Magic+ translates directly to Magic Accuracy (but naturally, only for dark magic), you can add either to increase accuracy, but only adding Dark Magic+ will increase the effect of some spells while Magical Accuracy will affect all spells cast (not like we have anything non-Dark worth casting, see?). Drain/DrainII/Aspir are totally unaffected by INT or other stats, and are entirely reliant on Dark Magic skill. Dread Spikes is also rolled for resists every time a mob hits you, based on your Dark Magic skill for sure but I don't know if +MAcc will help (can only assume).

Edited, Jun 10th 2009 9:09am by Raelix

that's fairly excellent. barring pat's helm for tp and toreador's rings i think you're pretty well set for the low 60's.

Well the enhancement will make them more potent I suppose dark skill would ensure that they land, so if it's something you're having trouble landing it on then dark skill gear, if not, enhancement . . . but really until homam black legs should be glued on.

Also, bigger question: WHich abs spells are you using and why?

Never cast Bio II unless you're DRK/NIN DoT soloing nms.

If you're casting Drains/Aspirs on anything that's not magic resistant or IT+, use haste over skill.

Don't waste MP on Absorbs if they don't end with "-TP", unless you're e-peening.

Drain/Drain II, Absorb-TP, Aspir, Stun, and Dread Spikes are the only spells DRK should be casting outside of e-peen numbers and obscure situations.