Quote Originally Posted by cengeal View Post
There are a few problems with this. While the scythe does indeed have a lot of accuracy on it, it doesn't change the fact that scythe WS's in general are very lackluster, whereas dagger has Rudra's Storm. +70 to the crappiest weapon in the game doesn't mean much. Secondly, most DRK's would rather use a GS, weapons that don't have that kind of accuracy boost available. You could argue the real problem is that grips in general just suck compared to wielding a second weapon. I think the most amount of accuracy on a grip is like what, 10? That's pathetic. Finally, 2H jobs have to sacrifice a lot more than dual wield jobs when swapping to accuracy gear. They often lose their DA, TA, critical hit, and most importantly, their X-hit setups. I realize dual wielders also suffer from this, but it affects the 2handers on a greater scale.

Comparing the best versus the best is an ineffective way to measure. While it's easier to get a Cronus with acc+70 than a capped tami sari, it also means less because DRK has lower natural accuracy than thief,and especially dancer, and don't even get me started on BLU. Also keep in mind, not everybody has access to the best equipment, which is a lot of what this thread is about. And like previously stated, scythe WS's are very unimpressive compared to sword and dagger. There's just no place for a scythe wielding DRK of moderate equipment in these groups. Aside from SAM, 2H jobs are rarely a welcome sight in high-end content.
Glad to see you are living in a pre rudra's nerf world. Wish I could go back there. Anyway there is a reason the ftp or number of hits on a dagger weaponskill is higher than say a scythe. So if you were comparing them based solely on that it would look like daggers weaponskills are much better. Only problem is they are done with daggers the weapons with the lowest base damage as opposed to a scythe the weapons with the highest base damage.

There are also disadvantages to dual wielding that you are over looking. One of the big ones is it lowers tp gain by lowering the delay of the weapons. Two hands on the other hand just get straight up job ability haste with their 2 hand weapons. That's really something that would mess up you X hit if you had to lower your weapon's delay rather then getting job haste. Then there is also the recent update where they changed the attack/defense cap for one hand jobs to 3.25 while 2 hand jobs got put at 3.75.

That's also not the best vs the best. That would be comparing RMEs, but that is a whole other can of worms. As for drk have naturally lower accuracy than thf, idk what's the difference between the dex of a 99 thf and drk, probably not a whole lot in the grand scheme of ilvl. Also if your accuracy is so lower perhaps there is some sort of spell you could cast. Maybe one that only drk has that would somehow get you more accuracy.

Should be worth noting that Cronus not only gets +70 accuracy from the augments, but also 10 base damage, and 10% WSD.