I can say with 100% certainty that BRD benefits from Aria on Sortie basement bosses. I've been doing Sortie on BRD nearly every day since Sortie came out, including with and without Aria.
My WS peak before Aria was in the 60k range, with Aria I've hit 93k or higher. I've never hit 99,999 on BRD in Sortie though, idk what that's about. Maybe bolster on an upstairs boss? Idk.
edit: oh, ironically it might be a BRD with the PDL TVR ring. I use Cornelia's. I'm sure I'm attack capped and using all the PDL I can on BRD, but there are only so many places to get PDL. Actually...I don't use Bunzi body but that seems like an awful idea.
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You bring your own attack buffs. PDL ring isn't a terrible choice. Extra acc on it isn't going to hurt either.
Hopefully you want the DRK weapons after sortie, otherwise yeah that's not a great situation. To be fair they say a lot of things and they are only right for themselves some of the time. Imagine how wrong they are for people they don't even think about.
Dodik said: »
Gear up Drk, they said, it's great in Sortie, they said..
..if you have already done enough Sortie to get 7M muffins to spend gearing up Drk.
..if you have already done enough Sortie to get 7M muffins to spend gearing up Drk.
Hopefully you want the DRK weapons after sortie, otherwise yeah that's not a great situation. To be fair they say a lot of things and they are only right for themselves some of the time. Imagine how wrong they are for people they don't even think about.
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[198 days between previous and next post]This thread has a lot of helpful information.
One thing I'll add: Don't use Last Resort against Gartell (and Leshonn too) if you don't have a dedicated tank. It pains me, as a DRK main, to say this but yeah.
One thing I'll add: Don't use Last Resort against Gartell (and Leshonn too) if you don't have a dedicated tank. It pains me, as a DRK main, to say this but yeah.
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I'm genuinely curious about the efficacy of DRK in a 9-boss run. I sometimes wonder if the "You have to have these jobs" argument are only prevalent because not much effort gets put into trying other strats once one or two are determined to work. I'd personally love to see what a DRK/DRG could do on Aminon. I'd expect the fight to take longer; but I'm still curious.
We used DRK for months/years before the DNC idea came out. It is definitely slower, by a significant margin. DRK meta also essentially requires Foenaria to keep MP up, which is a major disadvantage.
Losing box/quickstep, haste samba, and jig is just too much, and the DRK brings very little, if anything, to the table to replace it.
It's...fine...you can probably get a 9 boss with it, but it's simply an inferior version of the same strat. There's no reason to do it except if your group can't accommodate the DNC, or if you're just doing it for funsies. If you're doing inefficient stuff for entertainment then go for it, nobody's going to stop you.
Losing box/quickstep, haste samba, and jig is just too much, and the DRK brings very little, if anything, to the table to replace it.
It's...fine...you can probably get a 9 boss with it, but it's simply an inferior version of the same strat. There's no reason to do it except if your group can't accommodate the DNC, or if you're just doing it for funsies. If you're doing inefficient stuff for entertainment then go for it, nobody's going to stop you.
Galkapryme said: »
I sometimes wonder if the "You have to have these jobs" argument are only prevalent because not much effort gets put into trying other strats once one or two are determined to work.
Wonder? That's what "meta" in video games means. The "best" current strategy, which often stifles creativity by others because why bother doing it another way if it can be done better that way (translation: im too lazy to think for myself).
There's multiple ways to make a monster's HP reach 0. The issue is convincing 5 other people to do it your way because the idea sounded good in your head and should work. BTW, drk/drg is a current strat that replaces dnc, that is nothing new. Just youtube aminon videos, there's a almost half dozen strats that aren't even using the current setup.
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DRK > all DDs in Sortie. No DRk No Amonion Cheese, you ungrateful ***.
Ragnarok.Lockethedark said: »
This thread has a lot of helpful information.
One thing I'll add: Don't use Last Resort against Gartell (and Leshonn too) if you don't have a dedicated tank. It pains me, as a DRK main, to say this but yeah.
One thing I'll add: Don't use Last Resort against Gartell (and Leshonn too) if you don't have a dedicated tank. It pains me, as a DRK main, to say this but yeah.
Just mb Drain III some elemental on the way and go in with 9999hp
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