[Opener/Tips/Advices] How to play Drk

[Syzygian]

Hi, I have no problem fitting 2 oGCDs in between each GCD without delaying anything. Take that with a grain of salt. It highly depends on your ping. In EU, I was rarely able to do that before the server transfer, but now it's a piece of cake even with Blood Weapon on.

Low Blow, Dark Arts, Blood Weapon, and particularly Plunge have longer animation locks. Carve, Dark Passenger and Reprisal are super short. It may be latency on my end but I frequently get a delay (although not all the time), when trying to double weave with Low Blow or Dark Arts. Obviously with Plunge is best to not even try.

To the OP, test with your connection and figure out what you can get away with weaving. DRK is a very weaving-heavy job, particularly for a tank. If you have any experience playing DRG or another melee DPS it helps.

[Freyyy]

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Oh ? I have no issue weaving Low Blow with DA and BW. It may depend on the distance between your location and the servers yeah. The only one that is impossible to double-weave without delaying is Plunge. This one has an annoyingly long animation-lock.

And yeah, OP, if your DRK friend has any experience with DRG/NIN, it will help a lot to get used to weave a lot of oGCDs in his rotations. DRK is one of the jobs that has the most oGCD moves in the game, if not THE one considering their low cooldowns, the reset of Low Blow, and the very frequent Dark Arts usage. That's why I highly recommend to get used to double-weaving if your latency isn't gonna be an issue.