By Valefor.Bunsies 2014-04-01 08:55:40
I struggled to hit 500+ in Adoulin with eminent dagger and espial gear when I first came back. What are you trying to achieve? If you're looking to farm easy sparks then abyssea is most likely your best option, provided you have crit atmas. You wont get credit for xp kill trials, but the increase to your crit rate and damage will more than make up for that, and should push you well into the 500+ crit range. I was able to farm enough sparks there to get me started pretty quickly on DNC, using cruor buffs, Razed Ruin, Gnarled Horn and Voracious Violet (for +50STR, DA and regain), and occasional Aeolian Edges against groups of mobs.
Improving your dagger will help too. As long as people on your server run Wildskeeper Reives fairly often Atoyac is fairly easy to get compared to other high ilevel daggers (unless you're unlucky with drops - both my characters and my friend got one each within 3 kills so I doubt it's terribly rare), is soloable (you can't fight it alone, but you can just join in the event if you see a shout and have the entry item, no need to join a party), and it deals a fair chunk more damage per hit that the eminent dagger. Having a high damage dagger in each hand will also increase the number of big crits you land vs small, naturally.