[Opener/Tips/Advices] How to play Drk

[Kotemon]

dye all your gears into black.

reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q1cr5udb-8

Sometimes I'll put flames along side my chocobo so it'll run faster.

Foresight.

Foresight.

I had to contemplate cross skills until I got to lv58 last weekend. While Awareness is a lot more useful on Warrior (if it stacks with Raw Intuition), given the choice between Flash and Mercy Stroke. I chose to go with Awareness for when I'm in the middle of a dog pile and there is a lot of incoming auto attacks for a increased chsnce of Critical damage. I'm not sure on the potency between flash and DA+Passenger or enmity/mp used between it and Unleash. Mercy stroke would be great in my opinion if we could access the 40 second recast. However after getting to lv58 its a lot easier to use Sole Survivor instead. Even though its 30 seconds more on the recast, you have a window of 20 seconds to kill the target and regain 20% of your total HP and MP. Anyone can kill it, as long as it dies while Sole Survivor is still active on it. So targeting a close trash mob that the dps are killing in the last 5% ~ 10% has a better chance of a return than timing 1 hit.
Although if you can land Mercy stroke as the kill shot on top of it you might get 20%x2 on the HP restored. Personally Shadow skin is -20% damage taken and Foresight is +20 defense, all at 20 seconds. Tanks should have higher Defense totals on gear than DPS. So if Foresight includes magic defense then they both should average out to about the same amount of damage reduction give or take . Personally I tend to lean more on the defensive. So two abilities to reduce total incoming damage has more practical up time for mitigation than trying to time the last hit for a 20% HP restore. Then again that's just my opinion.