The Dark Knight

My trek of DRK to 66 has begun. I have actually knocked out the first 5 levels of this journey already which is pretty nice. This also brings me to realize that most DRKs just don't know how to play the job.

A DRK is more than just a Souleater and bash kind of job. DRK has access to all of these absorb spells that add so much to the job that I never see DRKs use. Something I discovered kind of accidentally was that when you have an attribute down on you, you can do the absorb of that spell and it overwrites that negative effect. Another something that I don't understand why more DRKs don't use it is Abosrb-DEX, STR, and VIT. Now STR and VIT are obvious because it boosts your damage and that of the parties, but you may wonder why DEX. Seeing that DRK is mostly a 2-handed weapon job doing an Absorb-DEX REALLY boosts your ACC. Last night I was doing Absorb-DEX on Lesser Colibri and when it landed I was getting 14 DEX out of it, that's over 10 ACC .... 10 ACC!!!! If you think that is nothing then you try full timing your Parade Gorget instead of a Peacock Charm and tell me if you notice a difference. Then there are also the Drain and Aspir spells which can be really good depending on the mobs that you fight. One of the Colibri last night I drained for 183HP which is more damage than a round of attacks by my party.

Anyways, DRK is way more fun than I expected even though my weapon skill levels are TERRIBLE right now. You should never do what I did last night, go into a level 54 party with a 107 skill level on your weapon you are using. lol But hey, I could use sushi on Lesser Colibri and I was getting skill ups. One of my other friends ... cough Hybrid cough ... was doing the same thing with his Polearm which he got up to about 137 in that party. It was pretty surprising that our party was doing as well as it was considering 2 of us were doing very little damage, well, 3 because the MNK was still using lvl 30 Boreas Cesti.

The next time I go out with my DRK I'm going to have to upgrade my ACC gear a little because for now its pretty painful to whiff as much as I was. Which makes me realize that gear upgrades are something I have to look up this afternoon because some of my gear is pretty crappy.

This week ended 2 of my volleyball leagues so that opens up my Tuesdays and Thursdays and seeing as my gf goes back to school on Sunday I am hoping to crack down on exp and really start moving through these levels. My goal for DRK is a week from this Sunday to have it at 66 so I need to stop being lazy and make my own party if it comes down to it.

Another little update about Disdain. He called me just before I got back from lunch and said he'll be coming back in the next week or 2 and hopefully be bringing a friend or two with him. One of his friends is pretty set on at least trying it out and he is trying to get her bf to join too. This would be pretty cool because then we could have some extra fresh meat to move through the levels and see where we end up with a small group of our own.

Quote of the Day:
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