(Don't) Fear The Reaper: A Dark Knight Guide

Sakpata doesn't matter if it's R0 or R30. There is sick stuff on the augments, like the hands getting STP, but the main reason to use Sakpata is for the massive MEVA and the DT. If you play Ody and Sortie, you need to survive, using Sakpata is better than any glass cannon busllhit. It's still great DPS pieces even at R0, it's not gonna beat your Relic legs, but you also won't die as much in them.

As for Nyame, yeah, the WSD is on the augments, so if it's sub R25, you still need to use the AF, Relic and Empy pieces with 10%/12% WSD instead, and fill in your weaker Nyame in the other slots. If you are literally R0, you may have to build some Reisenjima gear with WSD rolls on them, but none of this invalidates or makes guides useless, you just don't know how to *** read them...

If you don't have said piece, look at why that piece is good and find a suitable replacement for it with similar stats. Or, crazy idea, go try to build/earn/buy it. Guides are to be used as a base, and then you build around them until you can get the gear. The WSD Calculator is great and you can use that to help you, but it's also VERY BAD if you use it wrong. If you enter the wrong buffs or the wrong mob stats, you are going to get recommended really shitty gear choices. It will bring your acc/atk up to cap if you gave the mob too much eva/def, and put on shitty acc/atk gear that you didn't actually need in-game instead of WSD or PDL stuff that would be ideal for that mob and so on.

If you can't even use a guide properly online, I wouldn't trust you with a WSD Calculator at all.

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Unrelated side tip, find an Ody group and build other REMAs. If you aren't gonna make Foenaria, make an Anguta or Mythic. You need a scythe and using only Calad isn't gonna work, especially in Sortie. It may not be easy to find a group, but this is a team-based game and you aren't gonna get any of the good gear without one. Idk how you have spent 2 years in the game without finding an Ody group and at least doing V5 or V10's. The game is, imo, not worth playing without a group. By all means, do what you want to do, you just sound ridiculous when you complain about guides not being catered to a R0, one-weapon DRK that is too lazy to get the gear you need.

Random, mostly meaningless ***.

Fwiw "community guide" means it's open to edits by everyone and it's a collaborative effort.

In effect, you're all equally responsible for its current state if you think it's bad.

Disclaimer: The sets posted herein are a bridge gap for new & returning players. This isn't a true end-to-end High-End sets guide.

Yeah that'll be my last post on the matter too, nothing else to say. If they're that passionate about it they have the tools to fix it themselves.

Maybe im missing something but valor body as a purely offensive TP building piece is slightly better than sak body provided you get some good rolls, its either 7 DA and 3 STP or 10 STP and 2 DA with 40~45 acc, there's also DM rolls but good luck there.

Would i suggest it over sakpata? Not really but its not much diff from af legs vs sakpata legs, with AF being slightly better for TP gain but losing all of the defensive benefit

Greetings y'all,

This conversation again eh? Yeah, this pops up every 4-6 months or so. As Proth has mentioned, if folx feel that that know better and can do a better job, it is a Community Guide and it is free to edit.

As mentioned about the disclaimer, it is meant to help New & Returning players out, and as I've done with multiple other Community Job Guides, have tried diligently to craft tiers of sets that are accessible and reasonable to build up/through.

Sure, someone could just be shortcutted to Nyame & Sakpata, but that isn't always the case and (in my humble opinion) isn't the responsible thing to tell people to do...

On a side note to Kylos, the "Don't be a R15 Calal/R0 Sakpata DRK" line is a bit of an inside joke. I apologize about that one, but... my personal experience of the last 3+ years now have been of DRK's that dump a bunch of detritus into their Caladbolg but run around in R0 Sakpata and complain about their damage being bad...

Anywho.. I've made several edits in the past and honestly, I'm content with where it's at and what I was able to do in there. And in more than one place I've mentioned that people can just visit the High-End Sets Guide here. Again, others can edit it if they feel they know better or do a better job.

Have a good one y'all.
Kthxbai.

Ok, let's change the subject. I see on wiki someone claims they just Torc'd Kalunga V25 to death with no mention of making SC. Is this really a viable strat? Just try and melee burn it and not plan for breaking aura etc?

Well... this guide opens with "Please don't be a R15 Calad / R0 Sakpata DRK..."
So the gear you guys are saying the gear hss no plsce in 2024 it hss no place for you guys but thatd not for everyone. Most of the people on this forun run damage spread sheets and ***but most cant play the job. Damn near all the spreadsheets on here don't factor in none perfect setups. Or mob type its just oh this is perfect best dps. Like last post said if you cant understand a guide and how to take pieces from it then i dont want dps numbers from you or hate if you cant understand gearing in a 20 year old game(not for you but for people who ***on guides and blah blah)

I have been exactly this for about two years now, and only because I have focused more so on Sortie and other content than Odyssey (I also took a year break). It baffles me how being a R15 Calad / R0 Sakpata DRK is a bad thing.

I had a look at the guide, and while I admire how plentiful they are, some of the sets are puzzling. You're right about random Geas Fete equipment which has no place in 2024, especially if a player has a full set of R0 Sakpata. It is old gear severely lacking in defensive stats. I've had a better time making my own sets from the damage calculator, and it feels like I should share some of those soon.

WAY too many "guides" show you what the best sets are assuming you have Nyame/Sakpata maxed, which is absolutely ridiculous for anyone looking for a guide. Nobody with gear this maxed should be needing help from anyone else (although a few might). Would anyone be interested in my sets from the damage calculator? I'd only take the time to share if there is decent interest for DRK sets.

I suppose "guides" like this make no actual sense without reference to specific content.

The only way they would be useful would be if there were TP and WS sets classified for Sheol C, V20 NMs, V25NMs, and Sortie.

You mentioned your gear is the best on the comments above. So you go test it out and come back to tell us.

Or if you understood how to play the job at all and not think trust buffs are maxing you out on stats..

Ok, let's change the subject. I see on wiki someone claims they just Torc'd Kalunga V25 to death with no mention of making SC. Is this really a viable strat? Just try and melee burn it and not plan for breaking aura etc?

Doesn't light heal it though? In which case you can't just spam torc anyway for risk of healing it?