DRK merit question: Scythe or Great Sword?

[Okan]

Which would be better for end game in general for DRK. Scythe merits or great sword merits.

[sarcasm]Merit Thunder Magic and level a useful job like BLM.[/sarcasm]

I think I'd do STR or something since that'll effect both weapons.

[Totien]

I think I'd do STR or something since that'll effect both weapons.

STR is in a seperate category from combat skills.

[Okan]

I think I'd do STR or something since that'll effect both weapons.

STR is in a seperate category from combat skills.

Still uses merit points that you have to collect.

[Onizuka]

I say go with brd to 75 then get merits for drk, you can get them 2million times faster and you would have a job thats usefull

If not go with GS, seeing it's A-

[Okan]

I say go with brd to 75 then get merits for drk, you can get them 2million times faster and you would have a job thats usefull

If not go with GS, seeing it's A-

Honestly, that is exactly what I'm doing. I have 75WHM and almost 65BLM, but BRD would be easier because all PT types would want a BRD... and I'm kind of enjoying being a BRD.

[Elcura]

Why does everyone think that lvling brd is the answer, play the job you like or lvl the job you'd like to play...

[Aurin]

If you cap your merits in scythe+have abyssal earring+new torque you can have over 300 Scythe skill.

What I am doing is putting 6 in Scythe and 3 in GS.

[Onizuka]

Why does everyone think that lvling brd is the answer, play the job you like or lvl the job you'd like to play...

Would rather lvl a job i dislike than never use the job i love


PS: Aurin you got i nice plan, 300+ scythe skill would fucking pwn

[Raivyn]

or instead of lvlng brd 1-75 just for some merits (hell, even 65-75 just for drk merits is stupid) you could...

Invite a brd

Make friends with a brd and invite them

Screw brd, like you need them to get fast, safe xp/limit points as drk.

Go to ru'avitu and chain the shit out of weapons as drk/nin + war/nin or whatever combination of nin/war or mnk/war/nin and a whm and rdm.

10k/hr GO!

Capping axe was one of the best things I ever did lol.

[killerc4]

I did scythe, GS is significantly lower at 75 so usually I eat sushi to make up for it. With scythe you can have abbyssal earring and justice torque (when and if you can get it) +12 scythe skill with capped merits easily hits 300+ which lets you eat steaks instead of sushi for exp pts and also helps you hit those high evasion HNM easily.

[Onizuka]

or instead of lvlng brd 1-75 just for some merits (hell, even 65-75 just for drk merits is stupid) you could...

Invite a brd

Make friends with a brd and invite them

Screw brd, like you need them to get fast, safe xp/limit points as drk.

Go to ru'avitu and chain the shit out of weapons as drk/nin + war/nin or whatever combination of nin/war or mnk/war/nin and a whm and rdm.

10k/hr GO!

Capping axe was one of the best things I ever did lol.

Lol i would never suggest lvling a job for merits alone, hell if i did i would say mnk cause his a melee. I ment lvl it to 75 and you get the best exp in the game and have a job thats needed for everything. Imo you need 2 or more jobs at 75 atleast well if your a melee you need a tank job or mage to 75 ontop of your melee job unless you like doing nothing^^.

[Quicklet]

If you have/plan to get abyssal earring, anything besides scythe would be silly.

[Sekkite]

Well, I do have abyssal earring cause of the +scythe skill and since +int is a modifier for the good DRK WS(yeah yeah, I'm gonna get a response saying +str is better, but with a 30% int mod on Spinning Slash and a 50% int mod on Spiral Hell and Ground Strike, I felt I might as well try to put a little bit of +int in there over my much larger amounts of +strength.

[Lordwafik]

The abyssal is good, alot of your armor already has STR right? There arent many armors for drk that have +INT , alot of +acc +attk +str etc.

IMO if you wanna make fast parties for merit on drk, do my favourite pt setup :

war/nin war/nin nin/war smn/whm whm/--- rdm/blm in Ulegard on demons, pt's like this never have downtime, it's all damage, the whm is usefull in this party because people will get hit no matter what (/poke Condemnation).

I think you can replace 1 war/nin with a drk/nin, or even the summoner for a drk/nin, aslong as they plan on using Rampage :D I've seen nice dmg from them with souleater up. I havent a clue about dmg over time, because most of it is filtered, but it's nice seeing big chunks of HP drop off the demon at a time.

[Akiro]

Cross Reaper > Spiral Hell

[Onizuka]

Cross Reaper > Spiral Hell

Cross Reaper 30%str 30%mnd
Spiral Hell 50%str 50%int

You probally have drk af hands by now(your the only drk in your ls i think) The +8int+5dex and i think +5drkmgc pwns i would rather have that than the +9str hands, you need some balance of int with your str.

Go with scythe imo it's already alot stronger than your GS with your earring, might as well make it even stronger. If you like drk/nin though merit sword or axe, i would say sword for when you get a Ridill^^

[Elcura]

Cross Reaper has better modifiers at 100%, but Spiral Hell has better mods at 300% (and i'm not talking STR/INT mods either). Same with Spinning Slash and Ground Strike.

[Sekkite]

Nah, no DRK AF2 hands yet. 4 Dynamis-Windurst runs and not a single drop. Yeah, being the only DRK in the LS has its perks. Plus no active warrior and only 2 active BST, 1 which regularly attends events means I don't exactly have much competition on some of the good gear that drops. <3 Hecatomb Harness.

[Sekkite]

The abyssal is good, alot of your armor already has STR right? There arent many armors for drk that have +INT , alot of +acc +attk +str etc.

IMO if you wanna make fast parties for merit on drk, do my favourite pt setup :

war/nin war/nin nin/war smn/whm whm/--- rdm/blm in Ulegard on demons, pt's like this never have downtime, it's all damage, the whm is usefull in this party because people will get hit no matter what (/poke Condemnation).

I think you can replace 1 war/nin with a drk/nin, or even the summoner for a drk/nin, aslong as they plan on using Rampage :D I've seen nice dmg from them with souleater up. I havent a clue about dmg over time, because most of it is filtered, but it's nice seeing big chunks of HP drop off the demon at a time.

Eh, less DoT cause of no berserk and double attack, and souleater is on a 6 minute timer upon use. With 2-3 people with provoke and at least 2 with utsusemi, I'd think DRK/WAR wouldn't do too bad with that kind of setup.

[Okan]

Why does everyone think that lvling brd is the answer, play the job you like or lvl the job you'd like to play...

Well, I don't think it's the answer. Honestly, I'd prefer RDM but I did a search.. RDM out number BRD like 10 to 1... So for speed, BRD is better. I'm going to focus BLM primarily until 75 though.