Help, I can't play my job!

[geekgirl101]

Thanks, this is a lot of advice to read on, I'll get working right away on trying to at least look like a tank instead of trying to jump straight into VNM trials.

[Mirage]

Yeah, sorry Byrth. I forgot to include the evasion bonus DNC gets when I made my last post. That bumps them up past nin again, even if their skill rating is lower than nin.

[Raksha]

Skilling up is another good reasont to do magian trials. If you're gonna be killing shit anyway might as well be getting progress for it.

[geekgirl101]

Yeah I agree with you Raksha. Might as well do those trials even if in the end I don't finish them but get my skills capped.

[Nawesemo]

Ooooo, you'll finish, they're a lot like pretty girls to highscool boys, once you kiss one, you on em like flies on poo.

[Catmato]

Hello Pipps. I see you're on Leviathan like me. I have some friends who enjoy stuff like getting atmas for people, and desperately need stuff to do. We'd be glad to help you out since you really seem to want to improve. What kind of hours do you play? We aren't usually on at any certain time, but we can probably arrange something. You can reply here or if you see me on in-game (not likely) feel free to send a tell.

[geekgirl101]

Hi, well I play usually from 12pm - 3 or 4am. Not had much luck getting atmas and ZB wins with Ombro yet, it's a huge work in progress.

On the good side my survivability has improved quite a bit after getting merits. Spent hours in Aby last night earning merit points. Also unlocked evisceration.

[Angrykitty]

I'll acknowledge there are a few problems with dancer, one is that most of their abilities to cure or remove dubuffs are on a shared timer. This doesn't really make dancer a major tanking/soloing class for abyssea because most of the mobs that you are able to fight inflict status ailments that require full freedom of removing debuffs and curing (exception to those that have all the proper atmas to compensate for this). From my experience the best way to do anything in the game is to be as flexible as possible, sometimes subbing pld or whm is more effective than subbing ninja, also a lot of people forget that they have temporary items they can use. Other people focus way too much on stacking offensive capabilities that they completely forget about macroing defensive (-pdt/mdt) gear. All in all, it doesn't hurt to reference wiki as a resource and never be afraid to ask a stranger for help.

[Lokithor]

Also unlocked evisceration.

Right there is your major issue. You need to skill up! Evisceration is unlocked at 230 dagger skill. My dancer currently has 420 dagger skill (with max merits). I would guess that evasion is probably equally under leveled (mine is 412, also with max merits). Use skill up food while in merit parties and get that combat skill up!

[geekgirl101]

Yeah mine is really crappy at the moment. Dunno what skill up food is. Tried getting skillups in merit parties and the problem is some mage or warrior rushes in on my target and completely steals hate. Getting those skills are not easy and then I get yelled at for expecting to get skillups in an xp party where they want to kill fast, but if I get lucky in fighting my own target then those points are already flowing in at 0.4 and 0.5 every few seconds. Currently eva is 299, dagger 257, parry 232.