Wednesday, December 12, 2007
A second dancing around
Here is the third or second post in a series of dancer and dancer related posts.
Where does dancer fall as a subjob? As a subjob dancer can do the basic waltzes, first two steps and two flourishes. The usefulness of the low level waltzes are questionable. The sambas only work on low level or low damage mobs. The steps and animated flourish are what might make the job great for tanking.
My experience with dancer is still pretty limited. I have taken it into Salvage as monk/dancer and farming in Tu'lia as dark knight/dancer. We were zoning seemingly after every five mobs or so while in Tu'lia so I never really had a chance to put the subjob to use there. On top of not actually fighting much I still consider my dark knight's equipment to be subpar, so my TP gain was pretty slow.
Salvage provided a much more positive experience for mnk/dnc. We did Bhaflau Remnants focusing on the second and third ramparts. I had received abilities and subjob first to make use of dancer. While the first floor of Bhaflau is normally pretty easy the red mage had almost nothing to do while I kept drain samba II on. I never had a real opportunity to use any steps. We didn't fight anything difficult. Dancer sub in Salvage is fun if I have a large number of melee. I can see it being put to better use as a subjob for thief seeing as how they do not normally make great use out of their sub.
Is ninja/dancer a capable tank job? I am choosing ninja as the main job because of how reliant we all are on utsusemi for tanking. Traditionally, warrior was the subjob of choice since then the thirty second provoke has proven to be inferior to other jobs such as dark knight for holding hate on any difficult mobs. I do not believe dancer will turn out to be an alternate job for these situations. Animated flourish every twenty seconds does not compare to a barrage of stuns, sleeps, binds and whatever else nin/drks cast to hold hate. I see it as a possibility for merit parties or other events where healing is limited, but that applies to any job.
Acquiring one finishing move as /dnc can quickly become a problem when relying on animated flourish for hate. If the mob being fought has high evasion and the ninja using the step misses it just wasted ten TP and must wait another ten seconds before attempting again. A bad round of missed steps can make animated flourish to unreliable. Of course, a ninja should be using ninjitsu to help hold hate in situations like this. Would the occasional kurayami be enough to compensate losing an animated flourish?
I find the most important thing to have while using dancer as a subjob is to have a fast source of TP. If you cannot hit a mob or swing very slowly than you will never be able to use any of the dancing abilities. Because of the fast TP requirement I believe monk, thief, ninja, samurai are likely the best suited to use this subjob. Of course, other jobs can also sub dancer, but always look at the party structure and see where a specific job would be best placed.
Where does dancer fall as a subjob? As a subjob dancer can do the basic waltzes, first two steps and two flourishes. The usefulness of the low level waltzes are questionable. The sambas only work on low level or low damage mobs. The steps and animated flourish are what might make the job great for tanking.
My experience with dancer is still pretty limited. I have taken it into Salvage as monk/dancer and farming in Tu'lia as dark knight/dancer. We were zoning seemingly after every five mobs or so while in Tu'lia so I never really had a chance to put the subjob to use there. On top of not actually fighting much I still consider my dark knight's equipment to be subpar, so my TP gain was pretty slow.
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Look at how high I can jump in Homam. |
Salvage provided a much more positive experience for mnk/dnc. We did Bhaflau Remnants focusing on the second and third ramparts. I had received abilities and subjob first to make use of dancer. While the first floor of Bhaflau is normally pretty easy the red mage had almost nothing to do while I kept drain samba II on. I never had a real opportunity to use any steps. We didn't fight anything difficult. Dancer sub in Salvage is fun if I have a large number of melee. I can see it being put to better use as a subjob for thief seeing as how they do not normally make great use out of their sub.
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A jig for a warp. |
Is ninja/dancer a capable tank job? I am choosing ninja as the main job because of how reliant we all are on utsusemi for tanking. Traditionally, warrior was the subjob of choice since then the thirty second provoke has proven to be inferior to other jobs such as dark knight for holding hate on any difficult mobs. I do not believe dancer will turn out to be an alternate job for these situations. Animated flourish every twenty seconds does not compare to a barrage of stuns, sleeps, binds and whatever else nin/drks cast to hold hate. I see it as a possibility for merit parties or other events where healing is limited, but that applies to any job.
Acquiring one finishing move as /dnc can quickly become a problem when relying on animated flourish for hate. If the mob being fought has high evasion and the ninja using the step misses it just wasted ten TP and must wait another ten seconds before attempting again. A bad round of missed steps can make animated flourish to unreliable. Of course, a ninja should be using ninjitsu to help hold hate in situations like this. Would the occasional kurayami be enough to compensate losing an animated flourish?
I find the most important thing to have while using dancer as a subjob is to have a fast source of TP. If you cannot hit a mob or swing very slowly than you will never be able to use any of the dancing abilities. Because of the fast TP requirement I believe monk, thief, ninja, samurai are likely the best suited to use this subjob. Of course, other jobs can also sub dancer, but always look at the party structure and see where a specific job would be best placed.
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# posted by Mazzic @ 12:21 PM 
