Dancer Job

[ReplicaX]

Erm..my DNC worked perfectly end-game..in all areas, even Delve.

Honestly from my personal experience, since DNC was released until I quit after SoA last year. Never saw a DNC in any High Endgame Alliance Boss fights, they just were not favored over Higher DPS jobs, full healing jobs or even support classes like BRD or COR. Examples: Arch Dynamis Lord, Odin's Chamber II, and Legion.

Could be completely different now as the game has changed since SoA.

[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).

[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.

[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.

[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.

[File2ish]

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.

Refusing the Aby path is a lot easier now, but I took the Aby path from from 75 to 99 on my main jobs (DNC and RDM, didn't burn them up immediately though, I hated grinding aby). Didn't want to put in the effort of traditional EXPing to 99 for that lol. Took waaaaay too long.

Hope you don't get burned out grinding on those grounds tome pages (or potential Adoulin leveling mechanic I don't know about)! Haha. I ran my mule up to 60 on RDM after they put those grounds tomes =p No subjob! Took forever xD

[Eardstapa]

Refusing the Aby path is a lot easier now, but I took the Aby path from from 75 to 99 on my main jobs (DNC and RDM, didn't burn them up immediately though, I hated grinding aby). Didn't want to put in the effort of traditional EXPing to 99 for that lol. Took waaaaay too long.

Hope you don't get burned out grinding on those grounds tome pages (or potential Adoulin leveling mechanic I don't know about)! Haha. I ran my mule up to 60 on RDM after they put those grounds tomes =p No subjob! Took forever xD

I am actually avoiding the Eminence and Tomes as much as possible... Gotta keep those combat skills capped

But as I said on the first page of this thread, if Dancer was made a healer in this game... I would play nothing else until Samurai was released.

[LineageRazor]

I am actually avoiding the Eminence and Tomes as much as possible... Gotta keep those combat skills capped

Well... Hate to say it, but Records of Eminence is now a shortcut for capping skills, too. XD All my skills were already capped by the time this was introduced, but RoE points can be spent on "books" which, if used, give you a guaranteed 0.1 (sometimes more) skillup on the associated skill. The books are pretty cheap, too; it's not at all rare to see someone buy and use dozens of books in one sitting.

[Fantasy9]

I would guess it would be a support class like BRD. After all DNC in XI had buffs, debuffs, healing and dps.