Cross Class skills for DRK

What would you guys recommend for cross class skills? Currently I've been using Provoke, Rampart, Convalescence, Reprisal, and Anticipation/Awareness. Should I always bring Awareness over Anticipation or swap things out. Or is it all situational to you guys?

I personally run Provoke, Conva, Rampart, Low Blow and Anticipation.

That's my big concern bring reprisal or a stun or a silence, find i like to use reprisal before big aoe stuff or tank busters. Feels like dps have enough stuns they can handle those mechanics.

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Originally Posted by Dj_Seaghost

That's my big concern bring reprisal or a stun or a silence, find i like to use reprisal before big aoe stuff or tank busters. Feels like dps have enough stuns they can handle those mechanics.

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Yeah, that's my general feeling about it too. Maybe take stun or silence in a raid that you know requires it if you are planning on OTing, but most of the time I would go for another defensive. I've been using the same as you. I feel the last one (Anticipation) can be swapped around for more situational needs based on content but for the most part that seems like a solid general use line-up for role skills.

On my PLD I went with Rampart, Provoke, Reprisal, Low Blow and Anticipation. Still not sure if I should swap anticipation for conva or not. Low Blow and Reprisal are really nice to have. Provoke and Rampart are a given ofcourse.

I am using Provoke, Ultimatum, Shirk, Convalescence, and Rampart.

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Originally Posted by Gunnie

On my PLD I went with Rampart, Provoke, Reprisal, Low Blow and Anticipation. Still not sure if I should swap anticipation for conva or not. Low Blow and Reprisal are really nice to have. Provoke and Rampart are a given ofcourse.

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I would have thought low blow would be less important on PLD considering we have shield bash. I took convalescence instead of low blow.

I feel all tanks should get stun and not rely on the DPS to do the stun job because they won't and are too focused on their rotation.

Reprisal for on demand mitigation (usually used for party attacks), Rampart for consistent mitigation, Anticipation for the old DD function of "use it whenever off cd to smooth damage", Conva for more eHP, Low Blow for stuns.

I don't find provoke all that necessary for content that doesn't require a tank swap (i.e. any dungeon) unless something is consistently going horribly wrong.

My skill role at lv 66 DRK :
1. Provoke (a must i think, for swappin/get aggro)
2. Low Blow (just to add some rotation, cos i used to use this a lot before SB)
3. Rampart
4. Awareness
5. Anticipation

Anyone at lvl 70 can help us to test reprisal usefulness? Because i don't see a use in that skill.

Question about awareness: does awareness nullify enemy direct hits? Are enemies even capable of this?

Provoke
Rampart
Conva
Reprisal/anticipation for 4 man content
Shirk/low blow for 4 man content

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Originally Posted by Wolfman88

Question about awareness: does awareness nullify enemy direct hits? Are enemies even capable of this?

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Yeah they do, big mobs on Zurvan can crit for ludicrous ammounts and could almost instakill a tank if both mobs decided to crit at the same time. Awareness helped a lot by avoiding those unwanted situations, at least for 20 seconds

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Originally Posted by Bhearil

Yeah they do, big mobs on Zurvan can crit for ludicrous ammounts and could almost instakill a tank if both mobs decided to crit at the same time. Awareness helped a lot by avoiding those unwanted situations, at least for 20 seconds

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Thanks for the help. I knew enemies crit before (i.e. T9, diabolos hollow, Zurvan, etc) but I wasn't sure if direct hit applied to the enemies. If the enemy's crits have been made to hit harder on account of direct hit, then I think awareness is a must.

On DRK, in dungeons, I use: Provoke, Reprisal, Anticipation, Rampart, Low Blow.

On DRK, in endgame, I use: Provoke, Reprisal, Anticipation, Rampart, Shirk.

I think it's pretty safe to say that you will ALWAYS want: Provoke and Rampart. The remaining three are interchanged depending upon what you'll be fighting.

To me the first three are required. The fourth is job related and fifth is situational.

(-needed, +job use, *situational)

-Provoke
-Rampart
-Low Blow
+Reprisal (for Dark Job)
*Convalescense, Awareness, Shirk, Anticipation, Ultimatum, Interject

Now lets say Warrior

-Provoke
-Low Blow
-Rampart
+Awareness (for Raw Intuition)
* Ultimatum, convalescence, Shirk, Anticipation (redundant), Reprisal

Paladin However has Shield Bash so Low blow becomes situational and can be replaced with Convalescence.

-Provoke
-Rampart
-Convalescence (does it apply to Clemency?)
+ Anticipation (extra damage reduction)
* Awareness, Ultimatum, Interject, Shirk, Reprisal, Low Blow

It depends on what i do!

Dungeon; provoke, Anticipation, Rampart, Ultimatum, Low Blow

Raid /ex primal: Provoke, Rampart, "Reprisal for tank buster moves", Convalescense and Awareness.

Rampart and Provoke are the two must-haves in my opinion.

From there Reprisal and Convalescence are applicable in basically any encounter.

Finally, I switch between Anticipation for Dungeons and Shirk for 8-man content.

If an encounter requires a Stun or Silence, I'd check if I can replace Anticipation or Shirk, otherwise I would likely replace Convalescence with them. If there is an auto-crit phase like Diablos in Dun Scaith, I'd throw likely swap Convalescence with Awareness if I need Shirk; otherwise, I'd run it as my fifth Role Action.