MSQ req for DK ?????

[MrsFluffyButt]

all them people attacking me sory but at THIS LEVEL all i need to do is spam riot blade basicaly with a flash here and there im not joking when was the last time you guys played a low lvl Glad ?

im a damn fast learner when it comes to MMORPGS :P

1. No, no, no. Here's how your low level combo goes: Shield lob, flash x3, fast blade combo, flash some more, riot blade if 'needed,.

2. When I leveled both tanks WAR/PLD to 50 with both zetas. When I run low level R, when I help new FC members who are DPS run dungeons ect, ect.

3. O rly?

[SpookyGhost]

Gladiator is a very boring class to level up. If you don't like it now, you're not going to change your mind @ 50.

Maybe try another class instead. You do have that option here.

Alternatively, just power through it on PLD and enjoy the expansion content on DRK.

[Krylo]

1. No, no, no. Here's how your low level combo goes: Shield lob, flash x3, fast blade combo, flash some more, riot blade if 'needed,.

Before shield oath: Fast blade has an enmity of 150, savage blade has 600, Riot Blade 230.

So a fast blade + savage combo = 750 enmity. FB + RB = 380.

Flash, however, deals 500 enmity.

Fast blade + savage + fast blade +savage = 1500 enmity. Or 150 ePot per second

Flash + fast + riot blade + flash = 1380 enmity. Or 138 ePot per second (in both cases, assuming 0 skill speed, i.e. 2.5 second GCD).

Note that the potency per second for a lancer using the optimal (and super simple) rotation at those levels is 83. What this means is that both of these methods are comfortably above anything a DPS can put out, AS LONG AS YOU NEVER DEVIATE FROM A SINGLE TARGET. As soon as you do, a lancer will pull aggro from savage blade. Source: Literally no tank could hold aggro on a target I focused in the first three dungeons leveling lancer. Also the fact that as soon as you drop SB on another mob, your ePot per second tanks for that combo.

So while Fast + Savage is certainly more efficient at gaining/maintaining aggro on a single enemy, pre Halatali riot + flash spam actually works fine and means you never have to worry about an add wandering off to beat up the healer or that asshole level synked BLM spamming Fire 2. Honestly, in packs with 3 mobs, it works better because you're dropping straight 500 enmity on every enemy in the pack every third GCD instead of cycling through and picking one to drop it on, risking losing aggro on your primary to the Lancer who has correctly surmised that HIS low level rotation is heavy thrust into impulse drive until heavy thrust needs reapplication. (If memory serves, the easiest low level glad rotation is actually flash x 2 -> savage -> riot -> Flash -> savage -> riot -> Flash, etc. but I've not needed to worry about that in a long time)

It's not something I'd ever recommend because it's going to form terrible habits for later, BUT pretending that it can't hold aggro is pretty silly.

@OP: Despite all that, you should stop doing that, trust me. It doesn't work once you get past halatali and it's forming bad habits for you. Plus savage blade combo is straight superior on bosses.

[Causality]

Except he's 27 on Thousand maws you have to tie in rage of Halone as well