My Nyzul static is going to hit 60+ this Friday, and I'm going to start going as NIN/DRK for boss floors. Curious what the normal routine is for a NIN/DRK tanking. Thanks.
My Nyzul static is going to hit 60+ this Friday, and I'm going to start going as NIN/DRK for boss floors. Curious what the normal routine is for a NIN/DRK tanking. Thanks.
sub war
For this you get
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/25/54...ee1455.jpg?v=0
I know you asked about NIN/DRK info and got that link, but I must say in Nyzul Isle there's no need ever to not sub /WAR as a Ninja.
My group has been doing 4 runs a week since the beginning of the year and I've been NIN/WAR for 90% of those runs and never thought to myself, "oh shit, I really need to cast Stun!". Maybe, maybe, maaaaybe if a Flan or Flayer is casting -aga III, but that's no reason to pass up Provoke, Berserk, etc. for the other 99% of the time.
Grab yourself a couple of these and /WAR it: Mamushito +1... you'll be just fine. :D
That NIN guide is excellent - never seen it before and it's very detailed. Thanks for the link.
We've started going tankless to Nyzul - the guy who normally goes NIN has started going MNK/NIN, WAR/NIN or PLD/NIN and he cotanks with our other MNK/NIN. Backline is RDM+BRD and the other party members are a TH4 THF and a BLU/NIN. With fanatic's drink and body boost it's really been fine, although we've been doing Nyzul a long time and kind of know what to expect so ymmv.
Hope this helps and best of luck.
Just NIN/WAR with DD gear, I can tank all Boss floors on WAR so you should be able to on NIN.
I used to do the NIN/DRK thing for 80 and 100 floors just for a little added safety since we had no stuns. Just use your DD gear if you are going to sub DRK for bosses.
NIN is actually a good job for Nyzul outside of the boss floors (They are very good DDs still vs. the DC/EM mobs and are a versatile tank for the harder Enemy Leader floors), but NIN/WAR is definitely better than NIN/DRK for the bosses. I tried it many times, and there is simply no difference in how well you hold hate between NIN/WAR and NIN/DRK, so go with the subjob that gives you better offensive and defensive capabilities, which is WAR.
And yeah, if every melee brings a Fanatic's Drink the bosses are all pushovers with any 4 melee setup.
My Group was Floor 1->100 Tankless as well
For non-boss floors
2 war/sam, 1 rdm, 1 whm, 1 brd, 1 w/e is available (typically either a Sam another War/Sam or a BLM)
For Boss Floors we went 1 War/Sam, 1 Drk/sam, 1 rdm, 1whm, 1brd and then same floater.
After we cleared 1-100 we now swap a thf in somewhere for TH.
There's really no need at all for a traditional tank of any kind.
Any job with a Fanatic's and balls can tank the bosses.
Then you don't need the Fanatic's.