I never said anything about dual wield.
And there is nothing wrong with subbing /dnc if you're solo, winds of promy doesn't get rid of silence, paralyze, curse, or virus. Haste Samba isn't too bad either. And sanguine blade doesn't work on everything.
Like I said, it depends what you're doing.
Merely pointing out the post had comments regarding Dual Wield and subbing dancer, and although his post isn't specifically directed at that part, it something that should be taken into account when picking your Sub Jobs, I would also question why he subbed Dancer and had all the DW spells equipped for a trait he already had, but when he questions other spell slots (why Question the haste spell and not the fact you have DW3).
I personally don't agree with picking 1 part of a post to argue with when it was part of a bigger picture.
And with regards to SIlence - Echo Drops, Paralyze and what not I'd agree with you to some degree but if you're fighting something thats silence's alot or paralyzes alot, its normally a mage, and you can stun all those moves.
if you incapable at stunning, or you don't have trusts (area w.e) or you are mid action ~ fine, but that's probably not the environment you'd take a BLU to without some form of support.
And those mobs
probably are single target casts and /nin would be a beter choice ~ arguably.
Haste samba with DW armors won't actually provide that much.
How Haste and Dual Wield Works
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43.75 Haste 25% gear 68.75% haste (or delay reduction) With this in mind, a NIN should be capped with DW5 and any further DW gear will lower overall DPS due to reduced TP per hit, this is because DW is calculated first. You then Multiply DW by the haste So.. DW for example (1-30%)x(1024-256(Equip) - 437.5 (magic haste)) // 1024 = 0.7 x (330.5/1024) 0.7 x 0.32 = 0.225 which delay of 22.5%
Now Granted we won't have capped Magic Haste as BLU if solo (no trusts) so Haste is 30% and Dual Wield options are somewhat higher since this was done.
It is possible to cap your delay now using Dual Wield and Flutter(I believe) which would make the benefit from haste samba somewhat lack luster imo. (as most of your damage is now based on your spells rather than WS damage and any damage bias is more towards white damage anyways this isn't a loss in dps really).
I personally never use DNC as a SJ on BLU and experience no issues on anything I've used it on.