About damage essences in Delubrum/Dalriada

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

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I personally switch around between setups, but these are the most common ones I used for soloing III mobs, either for long term or while I'm recruiting to get full group. Mind you these were before Zadnor implemented:

1. Tanks + Breathtaker [ Lost Paralyze III | Any ] with some Auto-Potions.
   My poor-man's Bloodsucker setup. Breathtaker turns your auto-potion into semi-permanent Excogitation. Paralyze is to significantly reduces the mobs' auto-attacks frequency. Second lost action can be any, preferably something offensive or Spellforge if you're cluster farming. Probably can work with DPS but that means you're risking more 10% chance of losing auto-potion buff.
2. Tanks + Bloodsucker [ Any | Any ]
   Same as above but better insurance & flexibility with lost action setups.
3. BLM + Beast [ Lost Flare Star | Any ]
   Stay in Umbral Ice phase and mow down the pack with your infinite Flare Star and some Freeze/Thunder IV/Foul casts.

With Zadnor lives, I'm pretty sure there's already even better setup that incorporates new actions such as Rampage/Burst & taking account the medal buffs as well. Overall it should be much, MUCH easier by now.

Nah Skirmisher on its own isn't THAT great, been seeing a lot more of Beast/Deep beast plus assassinate on melee jobs for the permanent font of power, and Ordained for RDM/SMN obviously gives you the super powerful Chainspell, guardian/breathtaker are very forgettable unless you're super passionate about leveraging Guardian to throw out 30s long Reflect casts for some reason (red choctober?)

The thing is, Beast only comes from CLL chest loots so it's not always readily available to farm like Skirmisher.