Piety based dark knight

[KusoWat]

Jenova is Primal DC, right?

[shao32]

thats how I like to play my characters different not the norm. I want more mp so i have and it is GLORIOUS.

its not a question of the norm, you sacrifice VIT how is part of you ap, and i dont want to think where you put those piety materias for how many? 100-200 extra mp? is complety a waste of dps, agro and self heal capacities, reconsider inmidetly what you done because that glorious feeling represent the most poor form to manage ou stats as a DRK, and no DRK never run out MP, he management of the mp whatever you do its a question of know you skills.

[Launched]

thats how I like to play my characters different not the norm. I want more mp so i have and it is GLORIOUS.

You're doing it wrongly, not differently. DRK's damage doesn't come from a big MP pool, it comes from how much MP you recover and the extra PIE is only worth ~400 MP per minute. That's over 4 minutes to get one extra Dark Arts so it's an objectively worse choice than VIT/STR/crit/det/skillspeed.

[MagiusNecros]

thats how I like to play my characters different not the norm. I want more mp so i have and it is GLORIOUS.

Nothing better then getting inspected for having 16 slots of Pie V materia ha ha

[Vidu]

thats how I like to play my characters different not the norm. I want more mp so i have and it is GLORIOUS.

If you like to waste your stats that way because you cant play your DRK properly to keep your MP-pool up without melding the "wrong" materia, why ask the community for opinions in the first place?
Because you wanted to hear you've found one new, glorious revolutionary way of playing a job? You havent.
Healers have no problem to keep you alive because they wouldnt have a problem keeping you alive if you hadnt melded anything or didnt went for the piety-build - infact, most content is so easy that when a healer struggles theres most likely something wrong with THEIR gear and skill (if you can call it "skill" to press a button every 10 seconds, because thats all it takes if you dont dps), not with the tank ones.

Not running out of MP because you stacked crazy amounts and sacrificed your main-stats for it isnt a great accomplishment either - infact, if you were having MP-problems before, you were most likely not playing your DRK optimal and using all their MP-recovering skills aswell as using the MP wisely.
And how dies it allow you to get more DPS out? By spamming unleash? In any other case going for strength and hitting your target with your off-mp-regen-combo should deal more damage than the extra MP.

But yeah, in any case... it matters little and if it helps you to enjoy this class more because you have to worry less about good timing and making use of all your skills - go for it...

I'll be over there in the corner, being ashamed of myself because I did a similar thing on my paladin. Three years ago. When I was level 45... and then did the math and figured out how wasted extra MP are on a tank - even when hes MP-based...

[Ama_Hamada]

its cringe worthy on healers let alone tanks....

You do realize... you are making yourself harder to heal right?

[Miyha]

its cringe worthy on healers let alone tanks....

You do realize... you are making yourself harder to heal right?

He's really not, most any tank is relatively easy to heal in more casual content if they employ even occasional CDs. If I'm remembering how my tank buddies meld gear, it's for the sake of DPS, not survivability.

That said, PIE DRK is an awful idea and you're not really getting the return out of the stats that you think you are. You are drastically gimping your performance. That said, you seem set in your ways (which is unfortunate). As long as you don't set foot in Savage, you'll probably get away with it; if I saw those stats in a Savage party though (even an EX party), man your ass would be out the door so fast. ._.;

[Darkstride]

Sorry to say, but thinking outside the box when it comes to stats with this game is futile.

Yeah.....stat and build variety are basically non-existent in this game.

[Settiesama]

Thought we were back in 2.56 for a min there when they announced Drk would be PIE based, and how quickly they realised that was a bad idea. If SE realised it was a bad idea, why would you think it would be? Gear for damage to recover greater amounts of that MP, your piety does nothing, literally nothing during battle.

[Ama_Hamada]

He's really not, most any tank is relatively easy to heal in more casual content if they employ even occasional CDs. If I'm remembering how my tank buddies meld gear, it's for the sake of DPS, not survivability.

That said, PIE DRK is an awful idea and you're not really getting the return out of the stats that you think you are. You are drastically gimping your performance. That said, you seem set in your ways (which is unfortunate). As long as you don't set foot in Savage, you'll probably get away with it; if I saw those stats in a Savage party though (even an EX party), man your ass would be out the door so fast. ._.;

I said harder, not impossible, less vit, less hp, means I have to baby more, means I have to dps less, the tank dps for less (because of less vit, it is less damage) then because of less damage, it is less syphons... it lessons the performance of the full party, not just himself, when you are talking about putting 35 bonus traits in pie and not vit. Also I seen bad tanks where I had almost no time to dps in content that you are calling "causal"