Dancer Job

[File2ish]

That's a joke right? As someone who played FFXI for almost ten years. Dancer broke FFXI,
It made NIN, WHM for BST and any other sub job you could think of, irrelevant.

loldnc. Worst job ever.

Worst job? I hope that's sarcasm. This is from someone who played FFXI for about 5 years (on and off, would skip some months for various reasons. RDM and DNC mains). Dancer itself was a good job, dealt pretty good damage (moreso after native dual wield), had pretty good heals on fairly long cooldowns, and was more solo friendly than many other jobs. /DNC overall was mainly for solo play or eventually for dual wield if you didn't level NIN and didn't have utsusemi. NIN/DNC was mainly for solo or if the NIN wasn't tanking or didn't have a dedicated healer in the party. And BST/DNC was a far better option for BST (they generally went solo anyway if memory serves) unless the particular mob had a really hard hitting AoE since DNC heals are TP based.

At least from what I remember, you'd almost never see a SAM/DNC or WAR/DNC or something outside of people using /DNC for a specific fight or were doing something without a dedicated healer.

If anything broke FFXI it was Abyssea.

[KyroeFelix]

At least from what I remember, you'd almost never see a SAM/DNC

I was SAM/DNC onry...And thf/dnc...

[File2ish]

I was SAM/DNC onry...And thf/dnc...

Maybe it was a server thing, and I'm certainly not saying nobody ever did /DNC on any jobs as a main subjob. I usually saw SAM/WAR (because WAR buffs made WS's insane I'm sure, coupled with self skillchains? haha) and THF/NIN =p I did see some people on those jobs /DNC running around Jeuno before Abyssea. After Aby and level cap increases came out I think /DNC became more of a mainstay for it's heals. Plus Samurai's TP skill was perfect for self heals, right? And you could put the steps and whatnot up.

And I don't remember, could you reverse flourish as /DNC? Was probably great for SAM.

That said, I usually ran around as RDM/DNC and DNC/WAR most of the time =p I went RDM/BLM (or WHM) only for 6 man parties or alliances of if I knew I'd need to warp a lot lol.

[KyroeFelix]

-SNIP-

I only used sam/dnc during campaign lol or soloing (Soboro + /dnc = infinite heals). /war was definitely the way to go. You couldn't use reverse flourish when I played, but they may have changed that. I stopped playing shortly before the 99 cap and we didnt have access to it at that time. That would have been insane on SAM. Meditate - WS - Reverse Flourish - WS - WS. *goes home*

I doubt DNC will be anything like it's XI counterpart if they add it, but I would like to see where they take it.

[LineageRazor]

And I don't remember, could you reverse flourish as /DNC? Was probably great for SAM.

Yeah, you could Reverse Flourish at later levels, but since /DNC only gets one Finishing Move per Step, which means they need five Steps to reach maximum (pay 50 TP for 60 TP return) compared to Dancer's three Steps (pay 30 TP for 60 TP return). Additionally, /DNC misses out on the Merit traits and gear that DNC gets to boost Reverse Flourish (boosts that 60 TP return to 100 or more). So, Reverse Flourish is nerfed to the point where it's hardly worthwhile.

[File2ish]

Yeah, you could Reverse Flourish at later levels, but since /DNC only gets one Finishing Move per Step, which means they need five Steps to reach maximum (pay 50 TP for 60 TP return) compared to Dancer's three Steps (pay 30 TP for 60 TP return). Additionally, /DNC misses out on the Merit traits and gear that DNC gets to boost Reverse Flourish (boosts that 60 TP return to 100 or more). So, Reverse Flourish is nerfed to the point where it's hardly worthwhile.

Ah yeah forgot about that. Haven't run XI for a while lol.

[Tonberriez]

Kinda joke, kinda serious lol.
Yes Aby did kill FFXI

[Eardstapa]

At least from what I remember, you'd almost never see a SAM/DNC or WAR/DNC or something outside of people using /DNC for a specific fight or were doing something without a dedicated healer.

If anything broke FFXI it was Abyssea.

WAR/DNC is currently one of the best solo combos out there for FFXI... And while Abyssea may have 'broken' XI, the journey to that point is still absolutely blissful.

[File2ish]

WAR/DNC is currently one of the best solo combos out there for FFXI... And while Abyssea may have 'broken' XI, the journey to that point is still absolutely blissful.

XI is a great game, one of my favorite FFs. And by Abyssea "breaking" XI I mean they made it so easy to level it wasn't even funny. Some people could get 30-99 in a day on a job by leeching an aby exp alliance (assuming they already had the limit breaks done). Didn't break the story or anything =p

I can't really speak for the current game, I played a bit after Adoulin came out, but I never got the expansion. All I know is some of those ilvl 119 gears are godly in comparison to the level 99 stuff lol. I still assume NIN/DNC and RDM/NIN are still the best solos out there for the hard stuff, but so much stuff is solo or duo-able now from what I heard so I wouldn't doubt if WAR/DNC is amazing solo now, they do a ton of damage and are tanky (they were the original tank before PLD after all).

[Eardstapa]

XI is a great game, one of my favorite FFs. And by Abyssea "breaking" XI I mean they made it so easy to level it wasn't even funny. Some people could get 30-99 in a day on a job by leeching an aby exp alliance (assuming they already had the limit breaks done). Didn't break the story or anything =p

I can't really speak for the current game, I played a bit after Adoulin came out, but I never got the expansion. All I know is some of those ilvl 119 gears are godly in comparison to the level 99 stuff lol. I still assume NIN/DNC and RDM/NIN are still the best solos out there for the hard stuff, but so much stuff is solo or duo-able now from what I heard so I wouldn't doubt if WAR/DNC is amazing solo now, they do a ton of damage and are tanky (they were the original tank before PLD after all).

There are still some of us out there that refuse the Abyssea path... I am running a new character without touching it and having a blast.