The Last Dance III: A Dancer's Guide *New*

Twash is still good but prime is very good and gives light option for dnc. Even aeonic is good enough for most things dnc just depends how serious of a dnc you are.
That said prime is my fav weapon on DNC but prime grind isn't for everyone.

What / if any reasons are people using the Su5 dagger for Aminon? Just better step management?

Edit: Ahlen answered this pretty well about switching in and out of this dagger for climactic.

I know DNC isn't a popular segment farm job but for those who have done it have you found more success with MNK or WAR sub?

Hi, working on mastering DNC, and have been living off Kaja Knife for now with malignance gear mostly.

I enjoy leveling and playing around with jobs for solo w/ trust content and seeing how far I can push myself without a party.

What would you say are the pros/cons of a DNC against other jobs like RDM or (well I use MNK a lot for soloing too).

Atm I have BLU at ML5, MNK at ML15 and RDM at ML10, and aiming to have DNC join the club of jobs I like to play, though can't see right now how it's any more useful than a RDM for example that can also use malignance, Nyame, but has spells, self haste 2, and I'd think more utility overall. The factor making me focus on DNC atm is just the 'fun' factor and aesthetics since it's very busy, and I love SCs.

What would DNC be better at over the other hybrid jobs or DDs?

Dealing very large quantity of damage over a short amount of time (under 1 min).
This is done by preparing before engaging the target and having all the necessary cooldown and resources ready, prepared in advance.

This allow DNC to reach incredibly high burst of damage, supposing the target isn't strong against Piercing damage (or the SC damage, which for DNC can be very various but tipically will be Lv3 Darkness damage).


I guess this is probably the key difference I'd mention compared to the other jobs you mentioned, imagining average gear for all and a low amount of specific gearsets.

My previous post might give the (wrong?) idea that DNC is always much faster than any other DD in every circumstance etc.

That's not the case so allow me to further elaborate. In general DNC is imho characterized by the ability to deal large quantity of damage over a very very short amount of time, this is what I said before and I stand by it.

But, let me emphasize this, you need to "prepare" for it. It's not like you can do it every time you engage a target without doing nothing in advance.
I'm not just talking about the obvious storing 3k TP before engaging, but you also need a DNC exclusive resource called "Finishing Moves".
You can store them engaging random stuff before the "serious" target, or you can store them on the target itself before starting the "real" cycle of damage.
Regardless of the method, you need these things as a "requirement", so to say.

Once you have these requirements and the cooldowns ready, then DNC can perform a series of JA in a specific combination/order/synergy and this brings you to the result of an incredibly high amount of damage over a short time.


This means two things to me, mosty:
1) It's a slightly different style compared to the usual style of most physical melee
2) It potentially allows you to kill some targets very very fast from the moment you engage, hence minimizing possible dangers which may occur if you let the fight continue more than a certain amount of time, as you "normally" would with many other DDs.