Community Dancer Guide

General Information

This Guide is an amalgamation of various insights from FFXIAH community members who happen to talk passionately about Dancer in this game.

Tis the beatin' of the heart what lays the foundation. Ye embrace it with yer whole body, and then e'er so gently start tappin' out the steps. Yer blood gets t'bubblin' an' ye can hear it percolatin' about in there. An' then ye might stick a twirlin' turn and send it rushin' t'all yer extremities. Shimmies straight up the spine and sends a shudder clean through ye, it does. After that, then she's mine an' no mistakin'. Haven't the faintest where I be or how I got there, I just am. An' everyone around fuels me, each of 'em offerin' up their own—a symphony o' souls. An' that's yer rhythm. Ye cannot help but dance. — 'Laila Brillioth'

Roles

Dancers (DNC) are front-line hybrid class that can benefit the party, enfeeble monsters and deal a lot of DPS if utilized properly. Not only are they competent fighters, but the TP they accumulate is used to fuel their various abilities. They execute Waltzes and Sambas to heal and create beneficial effects, and perform Steps to inflict negative effects upon the enemy. A touch of customization is added with Flourish, which allows a step to be completed with a variety of bonuses to aid the Dancer's party. Obtained by completing the Lakeside Minuet quest.

Abilities and Traits

Job Traits

The following table only lists the Job Traits of a level 99 Dancer and their effects at that level alphabetically. For more information about these Job Traits, e. g. its tiers (if any) and at which level they are attained, they are linked to their BG Wiki pages.

Trait	Effect
Accuracy Bonus	Accuracy +35
Closed Position	Accuracy +3 and Evasion +3 per merit level when facing the target
Conserve TP	Cuts down the TP cost of weapon skills 25% of the time
Critical Attack Bonus	Critical hit damage +11%
Dual Wield	Combined delay -30%
Evasion Bonus	Evasion +48
Resist Slow	Increases resistance against Slow
Skillchain Bonus	Skillchain damage +23%
Subtle Blow	Reduced TP fed to enemies by 20%
Tactical Parry	50 TP per parry

These Job Traits define Dancer's base capabilities: a fast-hitting and evasive front-line job with a lot of accuracy and bonuses to both white damage and weapon skills when you close Skillchains with them.

Gifts from Job Points

Gift	Cumulative Bonus
Capacity Point Bonus	320%
Physical Defense Bonus	42
Physical Attack Bonus	42
Physical Evasion Bonus	64
Physical Accuracy Bonus	64
Magic Evasion Bonus	36
Magic Accuracy Bonus	36
Subtle Blow Effect	13%
Critical Damage Bonus	8%
Skillchain Bonus	6%
Superior 1	Enables the player to equip items marked as Superior 1 (Su1)
Superior 2	Enables the player to equip items marked as Superior 2 (Su2)
Superior 3	Enables the player to equip items marked as Superior 3 (Su3)
Superior 4	Enables the player to equip Weapons marked as Superior 4 (Su4)
Superior 5	Enables the player to equip Weapons marked as Superior 5 (Su5)
Dual Wield Effect	5% Delay Reduction
Maximum Finishing Moves Bonus	4 added "finishing moves" with a total of 9/9

★Master! Grants the designation "Master Headliner."

Decreases the recast time of one-hour abilities by 15 minutes.

Job Abilities

Dancers have a multitude of Job Abilities, many of which can be found in different "groups". Job Abilities within the same group share recast timers, so using an ability will lock out all other abilities in that group.

Steps & Presto

Steps inflict status ailments on the target by applying so-called "Dazes" to them. The first Step of a Daze effect sets its duration to 1 minute and each subsequent Step applying the same Daze effect increase its remaining duration by 30 seconds, capping at 2 minutes. You have to spend 100 TP for each Step you perform and their shared recast timer is 5 seconds for all steps.

Action	Effect	Potency
Box Step	Lowers target's defense	3% + 2% * (Sluggish Daze level)
Feather Step	Lowers target's critical hit evasion (increases player critical hit rate)	(Maculele Toe Shoes +1) gives 4% + 1% * (Bewildered Daze level) for a Total 14%
Quickstep	Lowers target's evasion	4 * (Lethargic Daze level + 1)
Stutter Step	Lowers target's magic evasion	3 * (Weakened Daze level)
Presto	Enhances the effect of the next Step and grants an additional Finishing Move.	15 seconds

• Unless the Daze effect level has reached the cap (currently level 10) already, each successful Step grants you 2 Finishing Moves and wielding a Terpsichore adds 1 Finishing Move on top of that for a total of up to 3 Finishing Moves per Step. If however the Daze effect level was capped already, you will gain only 1 Finishing Move, no matter what.

• The success rate of Steps depends on the Dancer's physical hit rate and therefore caps at 99%. Each Step gets an innate Accuracy +10 bonus and a level 99+ Terpsichore adds another Accuracy +60 to that. Gear that specifically enhances "Step Accuracy" should not be carried for the sole purpose of increasing Step Accuracy, because there are pieces that give you at least the same increase to accuracy, if not more, in every slot.

• The effect of Steps cannot be resisted, so if you can hit the target, you can apply Dazes. They however can be removed by effects that remove status ailments, e. g. Erase.

• Most of the time, you are going to use either Quickstep and/or Box Step. Having both at level 10 and maintaining that level lowers your target's defense by 23% and evasion by 44, effectively increasing attack by (at least) 29.8% and accuracy by 44 for everyone attacking your target. Especially Box Step is useful for low-man sitautions where accuracy is likely to be capped with attack being far from cap due to lack of buffs and/or debuffs.

• In party situations, the rise of GEO means that you very often have absurd amounts of defense reduction and attack enhancing effects up, so ratio is more likely to be capped, except for fights that puts penalty on GEO bubbles. Here, it might be more useful to use Feather Step instead, because critical hit rate is something that often is not affected by buffs. Feather Step also has another use case: For things that are being whacked by many players at the same time, e. g. Wildskeeper Reives, and Domain Invasion, it might be more reliable than Box Step or Quickstep for building Finishing Moves. Feather Step is limited to main job Dancers, whereas the other Steps can be used by anyone with a Dancer sub job.

• Over the course of many years, Stutter Step probably only has been used to increase the accuracy of the Stun effect caused by Violent Flourish. Which sounds like a bad strategy to begin with, if you actually need Stun effects, but now that Dancers might see the inside of harder content more often, Stutter Step might be used for a similar purpose in pinch: If your stunners are close to hitting the Stun wall, you can help them a bit and hope that your target goes down before crashing into the Stun wall or you can have 10/10 Stutter for that -30 MEVA on the target just in case your GEO was using "Other" Bubbles.

• Using a Step with Presto up gives it an accuracy bonus of +50, as well as adding two levels to the Daze effect associated with the Step, if possible. It will not magically let you break the Daze hard cap of level 10. Presto also grants you 5 additional Finishing Moves. You still get only one Finishing Move upon successfully using a Step that is "capped" already.

Proposed Steps Set/ also works as highest Acc Set:

Steps

Setan Kober Yamarang Maxixi Tiara +3 Maxixi Casaque +3 Maxixi Bangles +3 Maxixi Tights +3 Horos T. Shoes +3 Etoile Gorget +2 Mache Earring +1 Mache Earring +1 Regal Ring Chirich Ring +1 Olseni Belt Senuna's Mantle DEX20 + ACC 30

Try your best to use steps at start of battle and right after WS to minimize the loss in DPS and exploit the WS animation to gain as many steps as possible

Waltz

These probably are the defining Job Ability groups for Dancers. "Groups"? I am listening them together, but technically, Waltzes are split into three groups that each have their own recast timer. Similar to Steps, you have to spend TP to use Waltzes, but the exact amount of TP is different for each Waltz.

Ability	Recast	TP cost
Curing Waltz	6 seconds	200
Curing Waltz II	8 seconds	350
Curing Waltz III	10 seconds	500
Curing Waltz IV	12 seconds	650
Curing Waltz V	16 seconds	800

• Curing Waltzes are single target cures for any target within casting range. You will find that most of the time, you are going to use these ones.
• Waltz potency caps at 50% and Waltz potency *recieved* caps at 30%. Once you hit this cap, any remaining slots can be filled with pieces that boost CHR. Herculean set can be augmented to have Waltz Potency.

Waltz

Yamarang Horos Tiara +3 Maxixi Casaque +3 Herculean Gloves Dashing Subligar Maxixi Toe Shoes +3 Etoile Gorget +2 Roundel Earring Valseur's Ring Carb. Ring +1 Senuna's Mantle

Waltz 3 will be the most HP/TP efficient once you hit potency cap. Curing Waltz 4/5 are also comparably HP/TP efficient now, just keep in mind how much you heal to avoid overheal and thus wasted TP. Higher tier waltzes need to be used less frequently and thus may have have less of an impact on your DPS. Ability Recast TP cost Divine Waltz 13 seconds 400 Divine Waltz II 20 seconds 800 Divine Waltzes are the Curaga equivalent for Waltzes. They can target anyone within your party who is in range of you. Note that Divine Waltzes and Curing Waltzes do not share the same recast timer, which can help getting your entire party back to healthy HP levels quickly in a pinch. Divine Waltz II is your most efficient option if you're going to hit 3+ targets for the full amount (~900HP). Ability Recast TP cost Healing Waltz 8 seconds 200 Healing Waltz is our (almost) all-purpose Erase. It can get rid of pretty much any status ailment that a WHM can remove with Erase or their -na spells. Ability Recast Effect Contradance 5 minutes Enhances your next Waltz If Healing Waltz is our Erase, then Contradance is our Divine Seal. It doubles the potency for your next Curing Waltz or Divine Waltz; using Contradance with Healing Waltz lets it remove one status ailment from each party member. Flourishes I Flourishes I consume Finishing Moves to inflict an effect on your target. Flourishes I Recast FMs consumed Effect Animated Flourish 30 seconds 1 or 2 Provokes target Desperate Flourish 20 seconds 1 Weighs target down with a low rate of success Violent Flourish 20 seconds 1 Stuns target with a low rate of success The main purpose of this group is to provide Dynamis and Voidwatch procs. Rarely will you use any of these in other places except probably for "Animated Flourish". Animated Flourish is a claiming tool at best, because its effect is weaker than Provoke: If you have only one Finishing Move, it will consume that and generate 1000 Volatile Enmity. If you have two or more Finishing Moves, it will consume two and generate 1500 Volatile Enmity. Desperate Flourish will only be used as a Voidwatch proc. If you want to weigh down your target, Rudra's Storm is a lot better at doing that. In fact, I don't even know why you would want to weigh down your target to begin with. Violent Flourish on the other hand comes with a high accuracy bonus, but that's limited to the physical hit. The Stun effect unfortunately is resisted by many targets. Horos Casaque +3 enhance the accuracy of the Stun effect. With the current game meta of massive MAAC for mele Jobs one can safely assume that it will land quite frequently than before. Violent Flourish   Setan Kober Yamarang Mummu Bonnet +2 Horos Casaque +3 Mummu Wrists +2 Horos Tights +3 Mummu Gamash. +2 Etoile Gorget +2 Digni. Earring Hermetic Earring Stikini Ring +1 Stikini Ring +1 Eschan Stone Senuna's Mantle INT20 + MACC 30 Flourishes II Flourishes II Recast FMs consumed Effect Building Flourish 10 seconds 1-3 Enhances the next weapon skill Reverse Flourish 30 seconds 1-5 Converts Finishing Moves to TP Wild Flourish 20 seconds 2 Readies target for a skillchain Reverse Flourish is one of the most valuable of all Flourishes II. By converting your remaining Finishing Moves into TP, you can get instant TP to perform back to back weapon skills for a Skillchain or to close a Skillchain off of someone else's weapon skill. Along with No Foot Rise, it also can be used as a source for starting TP, letting you being fights with a good amount of TP. The maximum amount of TP if 5/5 RF and 20/20 JP with Max Cape is: TP Return = (95 + Reverse Flourish Bonus) × (Finishing moves) + (Square Mod+Empyrean Hands Bonus)×(Finishing moves)^2 + 30×(Merit Level) This will yield if we have the maximum Reverse Flourish Bonus (70) and 5/5 RF Merits RF of (1FM)=332 TP RF of (2FM)=548 TP RF of (3FM)=798 TP RF of (4FM)=1082 TP RF of (5FM)=1400 TP The amount of TP restored is calculated using this formula: TP Return = (95 + Reverse Flourish Bonus) × (Finishing moves) + (Square Mod+Empyrean Hands Bonus)×(Finishing moves)^2 + 30×(Merit Level) Reverse Flourish   Macu. Bangles +1 Toetapper Mantle RF 30 The effect of Building Flourish depends on the number of Finishing Moves available when using it. The maximum number of Finishing Moves it consumes is 3. Number of FMs Effect 1 Accuracy bonus 2 Accuracy bonus, attack +25% 3 Accuracy bonus, attack +25%, critical hit rate bonus Between Reverse Flourish and Wild Flourish, it is hard to justify using Building Flourish, even though its effect is powerful, because those Finishing moves might either be used for Wild Flourish or Reverse Flourish for more overall damage. Wild Flourish is best used in places where two weapon skills and the resulting Skillchain would be overkill, but one weapon skill and the resulting Skillchain deal enough damage to deplete your target's HP. Since it affects your target, it can be used as a Dynamis proc. It also is a possible Voidwatch proc. Weapon Skill Resulting Skillchain Dancing Edge Scission Evisceration Transfixion Exenterator Scission Pyrrhic Kleos Scission Flourishes III Our most devastating Abilities!!! Flourishes III consume Finishing Moves for offensive buffs affecting the Dancer. Flourishes III Recast FMs consumed Effect Climactic Flourish 90 seconds 1-5 Enforces a Critical hit for the first hit of a certain number of attack rounds. Adds a base damage bonus of 50% CHR. Striking Flourish 30 seconds 2 Enforces a Double attack for the next attack round. Adds a base damage bonus of 100% CHR for the first hit. Ternary Flourish 30 seconds 2 Enforces a Triple attack for the next attack round. Adds a base damage bonus of 100% CHR for the first hit. Climactic Flourish enforces a critical hit for the first hit of one attack around per consumed Finishing Move. Due to the nature of Rudra's Storm, Climactic Flourish is best paired with that weapon skill. Performing back to back Rudra's Storms for Darkness can deal devastating amounts of damage very fast. Maculele Tiara +1 is crucial for Climactic Flourish. Wearing it upon activation adds another critical hit, up to 6 attack rounds with critical first hits for 5 consumed Finishing Moves. Wearing it during the actual hits grants you a 25% critical attack bonus, which is a huge boost to weapon skills that deal the majority of their damage during the initial hit. It's a little bit complicated to create a solo Skillchain involving Climactic Flourish, because it consumes all Finishing Moves. You can perform a Step, preferably with Presto, after activating Climactic Flourish and before your weapon skill and/or use No Foot Rise after your weapon skill. Stepping before the first weapon skill means you have more TP towards your second weapon skill. For the same reason, No Foot Rise is used after your first weapon skill, because it also grants you TP when used with an augmented Horos Casaque +3 An easier way to perform solo Skillchains with Climactic Flourish is using Sekkanoki when using a Samurai sub job. Striking Flourish and Ternary Flourish on the other hand are best used with Dancer's multi-hit weapon skills, especially Pyrrhic Kleos. When using Fotia Belt and Fotia Gorget for this weapon skill, each extra hit adds another 1.95 fTP to damage calculation. The CHR bonus works exactly like Sneak Attack and Trick Attack: It is added to the base damage outside the fTP term: Quote: WS damage = ((DMG + fSTR + WSC) * fTP + (CHR bonus)) * pDIF SP Abilities Ability Effect Trance Reduces the TP cost of all Job Abilities to 0 and reduces recast timers for all Waltzes Grand Pas Grants 5 Finishing Moves. Resets recast timers for Flourishes to 0 while active and Flourishes don't consume Finishing Moves Trance used to be your emergency button for when you really need to spam Waltzes in quick succession. Thanks to Job Points, it now grants you up to 2000 TP upon using it, turning it into another source of instant TP. Grand Pas also can be used for that purpose by repeatedly using Reverse Flourish. Most of the time, Grand Pas is used as a zerg tool by chaining multiple weapon skills, possibly stacked with Climactic Flourish, in short order. The best way is to use these two SP's simultaneously and preform devastating Climactic Rudras back to back in a very short window, Have your steps ready and 3K TP and: Outside of Escha: Climactic > Rudra > RF > Grand pas > Rudra > RF Rudra > Trance Rudra > RF Rudra > RF Rudra > engage, make tp > Climactic > Rudra > make TP > Rudra - 8 climactic Rudras In Escha: Climactic > Rudra > RF > Grand pas > Rudra > RF Rudra > Trance Rudra > RF Rudra > RF Rudra > Revit > Climactic > RF Rudra > wing Rudra > wing Rudra - 9 Climactic Rudras without TPing (could go for 10 with TPing before Revit) Merits Group I Effect Building Flourish effect Increases Building Flourish accuracy by 2, attack by 1%, and critical hit rate by 1% per merit level each. Haste Samba effect Adds 1% Job Ability Haste to Haste Samba per merit level. Reverse Flourish effect Increases TP returned by Reverse Flourish by 3 TP per merit level. Steps accuracy Increases the accuracy of Steps by 3 per merit level. Dancer's group I merits are pretty clear: 5/5 Haste Samba effect and 5/5 Reverse Flourish effect. Steps don't need any extra help with accuracy between their innate accuracy bonus of +10 and Presto. As for Building Flourish... can be easily used when CF timer is down for WS. Group II Effect Closed Position Increases accuracy and evasion by 3 per merit level when face-to-face with the enemy. Fan Dance Reduces physical damage taken and gives "Enmity +15". Reduces Waltz recast timers by 5% for each merit level past the first one. Renders Sambas unusable. No Foot Rise Grants 1 Finishing Move per merit level. Saber Dance Increases Double Attack rate. Increases Samba duration by 5% for each merit level past the first one. Renders Waltzes unusable. Recast Duration for Fan Dance, Saber Dance and NFR is 3 Minutes. The group II merits used to be more complicated and the "right" setup has changed many times during the last few years. These days, the most common setup is this one after Relic +3 Upgrades: 5/5 Closed Position 3/5 No Foot Rise 1/5 Fan Dance 1/5 Saber Dance 3/5 No Foot Rise feels like the right number, because it caps Finishing Moves from scratch with just one extra Step. It also provides enough TP by itself to get to 1000 TP with Reverse Flourish after a WS and 1-2 attack rounds for a self-Skillchain, when used with Horos Casaque +3. Support Jobs Based on your play style and/or the Content you're participating in, along with what REMA you're using, Support Jobs may vary: Thief is a very attractive option in endgame (namely Erinys and Teles) if you utilize Rudra's Storm, this means you can potentially double the amount of forced critical Rudras Using Sneak Attack during these fights. Warrior is usually the go to option if you wanted to maximize your DPS, especially if you're a Twashtar III holder since your white Damage will gain a major boost from Multi-hit in gear and traits, just remember when you utilize Saber Dance (DA from WAR will be rendered obsolete). Dark Knight is also a valid option and can add extra power to your DPS, rarely used though due to capped attack situations these days from support jobs in party. Samurai is another attractive option for DPS and becomes a great candidate if you're a Mythic wielder due to its native STP trait and how Terp functions. Ninja and Rune Fencer are great for defensive purposes and the drop in DPS isn't that significant if you prioritize survivability. Weapons Dancers are super proficient at wielding daggers. And super non-proficient at wielding other weapons. While swords and some fists are actually wearable options, they only are useful in... maybe spots where piercing damage does not work or you need blunt damage in some fights like Master Trails. Let alone the fact that all swords Dancers can equip deal piercing damage and the only source of slashing damage is Vampiric Claws and in regards to blunt, now we can use Kaja Knuckles which is still not in final form. Lets get serious now and discuss Daggers: If you aligned with Dancer as your career Job in this game, then you obviously will try to pursue [EMA] Weapons [ Twashtar (Level 119 III), Terpsichore (Level 119 III), Aeneas) ! These weapons are extremely powerful and each one shines depending on the situation but they will require a lot of resources and time to make them of course. For Maximum potential, most players agree on (Terp/Twashtar) combination to attain the highest DPS possible and preform better on all other aspects of the job. With this combination you don't have to worry that much about WS order in fights with other DPS members and will definitely cause severe damage overall, also it will make life easier on steps and tanking without losing that much of your overall DPS with AM3 up. With recent game meta (very short fights and capped buffs) (Twashtar/Centovente) is a new contender that is becoming increasingly popular if you decided to go full on ZERG and implement the devastating abilities of Dancer (e.g. Climactic Rudra and Multi SC order in the fight). For longer fights its best to use (Twashtar/Taming Sari) or (Twashtar/Airy Buckler) since the scale will tip towards white damage more. Terpsichore (Level 119 III): This is our Mythic Weapon and requires a lot of time and resources to make, so if you're serious about it, you should definitely make one. This weapon allows user to use the weaponskill Pyrrhic Kleos and gives 30% increase in damage when used. AM3 up gives access to OAT for 3 minutes and trust me you wont even have enough time to react to the amount of TP you generate!!! Afterglow gives an Attack/Ranged Attack boost (+15) Step Accuracy+60. Gives one extra Finishing Move per Step. Good luck making it, its definitely a beautiful weapon to have. With R15 maxed out and in Main Hand only, Terp becomes absolutely broken with; DMG: +16 Pyrrhic Kleos: DMG +15% Accuracy +30 Mac. Acc. +30 Twashtar (Level 119 III): This is our Empyrean Weapon and it requires a lot of Gil to finish, if you're willing to invest in it you will never be disappointed by its outcomes. It has insane amount of DEX making Rudra ever more powerful. Afterglow gives a Critical Hit Rate boost (+5%) that gives your DPS partners a huge boost to their DPS for 30 seconds (you can imagine what it can do to critical based WS's) AM3 up opens the door to triple damage for 3 Minutes on [Mele hits & multi-hits] eventually making a jaw-dropping reaction from players when they notice your white damage spikes. With this weapon main hand you will become a killing machine and see damage like never before. With R15 maxed out and in Main Hand only, it becomes more OP with; DMG: +4 Rudra's Storm: DMG +10% DEX & AGI +20 Aeneas: This is our Aeonic Weapon and requires skill and knowledge to acquire, if you have the beads and a willing group to clear it then by all means do it. Allows the user to perform an Ultimate Skillchain and gives dancers the ability to make "light" skill chains finally!!!! This weapon allows the user to use the Merit Point weaponskill Exenterator at full "Rank 5" strength with no merit points invested. The TP Bonus from this weapon is not applied to weapon skills when it is wielding in the off hand slot. its definitely an attractive (easy yo get) weapon and you will enjoy the ultimate skill chain aspect of it! this weapon shows the real power behind Dancer's skill chain properties. With R15 maxed out and in Main Hand only, it comes with; DMG: +6 Exenterator: DMG +10% Accuracy +30 & Mag. Acc. +30 Now with [EMA] aside, what else can dancers use and still be efficient? Tauret: The final upgrade from Kaja Knife by using 5 Abdhaljs Matter and any Pulse Weapon. This Dagger is incredible for spamming Evisceration at 1K, and should definitely be ranked amongst legendary weapons for Dancers. Best High DMG, low delay option for none EMA and a great offhand if you don't have Twashtar or Perfect Taming Sari. This Dagger when equipped in main it will offer access to Evisceration, with an added 50% boost to wsDMG across all hits and will increase the chance of critical hits based with lower TP according to this decay formula: Assuming exponential decay: y = a(1 - r)^x where: a = initial value (the amount before measuring decay)=50, r = decay rate (most often represented as a percentage and expressed as a decimal) and its now calculated as 0.35, x = value of TP used divided by 1000, y = critical rate percentage At 1k TP you will have 17.5% critical rate, at 2k TP you will have 6% critical rate, and at 3k TP you will have 2.5% critical rate based on the latest sample tests. With Feather Step 10/10, Rogue's Roll 11 crooked and your merits; you would notice how incredible this dagger is in longer fights, both in white damage and ws, since the moment you have all these buffs and capped dDEX, your critical hit rate should reach 81.5% at 1K TP. Good Luck getting it from Ambuscade Weapons. Main Hand: "Evisceration", "Evisceration" damage +50%, increase critical hits based with lower TP. Setan Kober: This is our new Divergence Weapon to add to your arsenal. At first glance it might look underwhelming but this Dagger is incredible and as of now its the best Accuracy option. Coupled with Horos Toe Shoes +3 your steps will only consume 40 TP and this will have major impact on lost DPS during stepping. This Dagger can be equipped on main and offhand simultaneously making steps free. Good Luck getting it from Blacksmith's aurum tome or buying it off the AH. Augments: Path A: Main Hand: Double Damage +50%, Store TP +25, DMG +5 Path B: Main Hand: Follow-up Attack +50%, Subtle Blow II +25, DMG +5 Path C: Main Hand: Flourish Recast Time -25%, Step Duration +60, DMG +5 Taming Sari: This Dagger is incredible and if you managed to get the perfect augments on it then you will be really satisfied of its outcomes. This Dagger can be equipped on main and offhand simultaneously and you will notice how incredible this combination is (Also Hello TH2?) Good Luck getting it from Sinister Reign Kaja Knife: This is our new Ambuscade Weapon to add to your arsenal, and its still not in its final form. This Dagger is incredible for returning/new players. High DMG, low delay option for none DEMA. This Dagger when equipped in main it will offer access to Evisceration, with an added 50% boost to wsDMG across all hits. Good Luck getting it from Ambuscade Weapons. Main Hand: "Evisceration", "Evisceration" damage +50% Raetic Kris +1: This Dagger is a beast!! and if you managed to get one provided that you have source of refresh, you will not be disappointed at all. This Dagger is best equipped with Twashtar to have the best results (lowest delay combo and one of the highest DPS). Good Luck getting it from Blacksmithing and the crafter will need Blacksmith's argentum tome, you can also buy it. Centovente: This Dagger can potentially give the highest DPS in offhand when you go [TP Bonus +1000] and Pair it with Twashtar (Level 119 III) or Setan Kober B. It will require a metric ton of accuracy in what is considered high end content, even if DNC has one of the highest Accuracy in game; it's estimated that on Omen Bosses for instance you would need approximately 120-140 more Accuracy than normal buffs to cover the loss in offhand. Good Luck getting it from Dagger Trials in Weaponskill Trials via Magian Moogle. Skinflayer This Dagger can be obtained from Strophadia in Reisenjima and further augmented with the help of Oseem. Try your best to get at least 15 DMG 10 DEX 20 ACC 20 ATTk and TA3. This is an excellent Dagger if you managed to gain powerful augments, and you can double wield it like Taming Sari~ Good Luck on augments. Polyhymnia: Obtained from Oboro and its our JSE weapon, easy to get. It will serve new/returning players a great deal and should be considered as first option. Can be further augmented with Accuracy +50, Store TP +8, Weapon Skill Damage +5%. Enchufla: Obtained from Hanbi in Escha - Ru'Aun and can be upgraded through the help of Nolan and Path C seems like a well grounded option. Equipment Sets Starter TP: Assuming no JP and cheapest gear. TP Starter Set   Kaja Knife Polyhymnia Ginsen Skormoth Mask Rawhide Vest Path D: HP 50 / Subtle Blow 7 / TA 2 Mummu Wrists +2 Meg. Chausses +2 Macu. Toe Shoes +1 Asperity Necklace Brutal Earring Cessance Earring Petrov Ring Epona's Ring Kentarch Belt +1 Senuna's Mantle DEX30 + ACC/ATT 20+10DW Best in Slot TP: Theoretically, the best DPS output when you spam Rudra exactly at 1k TP [ Please note you will require much more acc than normal buffs, to cover the loss in offhand accuracy]. TP Best in Slot   Twashtar (Level 119 III) Centovente Yamarang Adhemar Bonnet +1 (Path B) STR+12+DEX+12+ Attack+20 Horos Casaque +3 Adhemar Wrist. +1 Path A:DEX+12, AGI+12, Accuracy+20 Samnuha Tights 10DEX+10STR+3DA+3TA Horos T. Shoes +3 Etoile Gorget +2 Sherida Earring Telos Earring Gere Ring Epona's Ring Windbuffet Belt +1 Senuna's Mantle DEX30 + ACC/ATT 20+10DA Acc TP Best in Slot   Twashtar (Level 119 III) Setan Kober Yamarang Horos Tiara +3 Horos Casaque +3 Adhemar Wrist. +1 Path A:DEX+12, AGI+12, Accuracy+20 Maxixi Tights +3 Horos T. Shoes +3 Etoile Gorget +2 Mache Earring +1 Mache Earring +1 Regal Ring Moonlight Ring Olseni Belt Senuna's Mantle DEX20 + ACC 30 + ATT 20+10DA Twashtar TP Set: Utilizing Fencer from /WAR is vital for this combo to preform its best, more DPS options for us to choose from. TP Twashtar   Twashtar (Level 119 III) Airy Buckler Yamarang Adhemar Bonnet +1 (Path B) STR+12+DEX+12+ Attack+20 Horos Casaque +3 Adhemar Wrist. +1 (Path A):DEX+12, AGI+12, Accuracy+20 Samnuha Tights 10DEX+10STR+3DA+3TA Horos T. Shoes +3 Etoile Gorget +2 Sherida Earring Telos Earring Gere Ring Epona's Ring Windbuffet Belt +1 Senuna's Mantle DEX30 + ACC/ATT 20+10DA Bonus Set when you have AM3 up from Twashtar and you can't WS as often as you wish due to fight mechanics, and the point is to depend on White Damage, this set will provide [Critical hit damage +42% and 39% Crtical hit rate] + 14% critical hit rate from Feather Step: TP AM3 Up   Twashtar (Level 119 III) Skinflayer +DMG, 10DEX, 30Acc/Att, 7% Crtical DMG Charis Feather Adhemar Bonnet +1 (Path B) STR+12+DEX+12+ Attack+20 Mummu Jacket +2 Adhemar Wrist. +1 (Path A):DEX+12, AGI+12, Accuracy+20 Turms Subligar +1 Herculean Boots 15STR + 30 ACC/ATT + 5% Critical DMG Etoile Gorget +2 Brutal Earring Sherida Earring Mummu Ring Hetairoi Ring Windbuffet Belt +1 Senuna's Mantle DEX30 + ACC/ATT 20+10CRate Terpsichore TP SET: Its plausible to use STP set with Mythic Weapons since AM takes care of the multi hit gear easily if it was maintained at level 3 [Terp gives ± 70 per hit so you might need to hit 80 STP in gear, buffs and sub job STP values] [the margins of STP Set and MultiHit Set can be minuscule depending on sub job options and provided buffs, for more explanation refer to this thread http://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/31534/math-oax-multi-attack-and-you/3/] TP Terpsichore   Terpsichore (Level 119 III) Twashtar (Level 119 III) Yamarang Adhemar Bonnet +1 (Path B) STR+12+DEX+12+ Attack+20 Horos Casaque +3 Adhemar Wrist. +1 (Path A):DEX+12, AGI+12, Accuracy+20 Samnuha Tights 10DEX+10STR+3DA+3TA Horos T. Shoes +3 Etoile Gorget +2 Sherida Earring Telos Earring Epona's Ring Gere Ring Windbuffet Belt +1 Senuna's Mantle DEX30 + ACC/ATT 20+10STP This set provides 72+15=87 STP when /SAM. Enough to cover everything you need and make your round/ws the lowest among any other combination [could possibly hit 1.9-2.1 rounds/ws] Dual Wield Scenarios When/if one needed to cap delay in situations where Haste Samba isn't an option, can't get Haste II or Marches, and/or you're weak/zombi, and lastly if you're solo with trusts, you should use these sets: 0% Haste   Yamarang Maxixi Tiara +3 Adhemar Jacket +1 Path A Herculean Gloves 15 STR/DEX + 30 ACC/ATT + 4DW Samnuha Tights 10DEX+10STR+3DA+3TA Horos T. Shoes +3 Etoile Gorget +2 Sherida Earring Eabani Earring Moonlight Ring Epona's Ring Reiki Yotai Senuna's Mantle DEX30 + ACC/ATT 20+10STP+5DT 10% Haste   Yamarang Maxixi Tiara +3 Adhemar Jacket +1 Path A Adhemar Wrist. +1 Path A Samnuha Tights 10DEX+10STR+3DA+3TA Horos T. Shoes +3 Etoile Gorget +2 Sherida Earring Eabani Earring Moonlight Ring Epona's Ring Reiki Yotai Senuna's Mantle DEX30 + ACC/ATT 20+10STP+5DT 40% Haste   Yamarang Maxixi Tiara +3 Horos Casaque +3 Adhemar Wrist. +1 Path A Samnuha Tights 10DEX+10STR+3DA+3TA Horos T. Shoes +3 Etoile Gorget +2 Sherida Earring Telos Earring Moonlight Ring Epona's Ring Windbuffet Belt +1 Senuna's Mantle DEX30 + ACC/ATT 20+10STP+5DT Weapon Skills Climactic Rudra   Charis Feather Maculele Tiara +1 Meg. Cuirie +2 Maxixi Bangles +3 Horos Tights +3 Herculean Boots DEX15 + ACC/ATT 30+4WSD Etoile Gorget +2 Ishvara Earring Moonshade Earring 3ACC+250 TP Bonus Regal Ring Epaminondas's Ring Grunfeld Rope Senuna's Mantle DEX30 + ACC/ATT 20+10WSD Normal Rudra   Charis Feather Herculean Helm DEX15 + ACC/ATT 30+4%WSD Herculean Vest DEX15 + ACC/ATT 30+4%WSD Maxixi Bangles +3 Horos Tights +3 Herculean Boots DEX15 + ACC/ATT 30+4%WSD Etoile Gorget +2 Ishvara Earring Moonshade Earring 3ACC+250 TP Bonus Regal Ring Epaminondas's Ring Grunfeld Rope Senuna's Mantle DEX30 + ACC/ATT 20+10%WSD Starter Rudra   Polyhymnia Odium Charis Feather Mummu Bonnet +2 DEX15 + ACC/ATT 30+4%WSD Meg. Cuirie +2 Meg. Gloves +2 Mummu Kecks +2 Mummu Gamash. +2 Caro Necklace Ishvara Earring Moonshade Earring 3ACC+250 TP Bonus Ramuh Ring +1 Mummu Ring Grunfeld Rope Senuna's Mantle DEX30 + ACC/ATT 20+10%WSD Evisceration: Evisceration   Charis Feather Adhemar Bonnet +1 (Path B) DEX12 +STR 12+ ATT 20 Meg. Cuirie +2 Mummu Wrists +2 Lustr. Subligar +1 8DEX+20ACC+3Critrate Herculean Boots DEX15 + ACC/ATT 30+4%CritDMG Fotia Gorget Sherida Earring Mache Earring +1 Regal Ring Gere Ring Fotia Belt Senuna's Mantle DEX30 + ACC/ATT 20+10%CritRate Starter Evisceration   Charis Feather Mummu Bonnet +2 Meg. Cuirie +2 Mummu Wrists +2 Mummu Kecks +2 Mummu Gamash. +2 Fotia Gorget Cessance Earring Brutal Earring Ramuh Ring +1 Mummu Ring Fotia Belt Senuna's Mantle DEX30 + ACC/ATT 20+10%C.Rate * Pyrrhic Kleos: Pyrrhic Kleos   Mantoptera Eye Lustratio Cap +1 Path A Horos Casaque +3 Adhemar Wrist. +1 Path B Samnuha Tights 10DEX+10STR+3DA+3TA Lustra. Leggings +1 Path A Fotia Gorget Sherida Earring Mache Earring +1 Gere Ring Epona's Ring Fotia Belt Senuna's Mantle STR30 + ACC/ATT 20+10DA PK Striking Flourish   Mantoptera Eye Lustratio Cap +1 Path A Macu. Casaque +1 Adhemar Wrist. +1 Path B Samnuha Tights 10DEX+10STR+3DA+3TA Lustra. Leggings +1 Path A Fotia Gorget Sherida Earring Mache Earring +1 Gere Ring Epona's Ring Fotia Belt Senuna's Mantle STR30 + ACC/ATT 20+10DA PK Starter   Mantoptera Eye Skormoth Mask Rawhide Vest Path A Mummu Wrists +2 Meg. Chausses +2 Rawhide Boots Path D Fotia Gorget Brutal Earring Cessance Earring Ifrit Ring +1 Epona's Ring Fotia Belt Senuna's Mantle STR30 + ACC/ATT 20+10DA Exenterator   Aeneas Taming Sari DMG15+10DEX+10STR+TH1 Charis Feather Herculean Helm 15AGI + ACC/ATT 30+3TA Horos Casaque +3 Herculean Gloves 15AGI + ACC/ATT 30+3TA Meg. Chausses +2 Herculean Boots 15AGI + ACC/ATT 30+3TA Fotia Gorget Sherida Earring Brutal Earring Gere Ring Regal Ring Fotia Belt Senuna's Mantle 30AGI + ACC/ATT 20+10DA AE   Aeneas Pemphredo Tathlum Herculean Helm 10 INT + MAB35 + MAC35 + WSD5% Herculean Vest 10 INT + MAB35 + MAC35 + WSD5% Herculean Gloves 10 INT + MAB35 + MAC35 + WSD5% Horos Tights +3 Herculean Boots 10 INT + MAB35 + MAC35 + WSD5% Baetyl Pendant Moonshade Earring 4MAB+250 TP Bonus Friomisi Earring Shiva Ring +1 Karieyh Ring +1 Eschan Stone Senuna's Mantle DEX30 + ACC/ATT 20+ WSD 10% Utilities: MDT   Staunch Tathlum +1 Dampening Tam Tu. Harness +1 Turms Mittens +1 Mummu Kecks +2 Ahosi Leggings Warder's Charm +1 Odnowa Earring +1 Odnowa Earring Purity Ring Defending Ring Engraved Belt Senuna's Mantle INT 20+ EVA 20+ MEVA 45 PDT   Staunch Tathlum +1 Meghanada Visor +2 Horos Casaque +3 Meg. Gloves +2 10 VIT + DT5 Mummu Kecks +2 Ahosi Leggings Loricate Torque +1 Genmei Earring Moonlight Ring Defending Ring Senuna's Mantle VIT 30+ EVA/MEVA 20+ DEF 50 MEVA   Yamarang Turms Cap +1 Tu. Harness +1 Raetic Bangles +1 Turms Subligar +1 Ahosi Leggings Warder's Charm +1 Sanare Earring Hearty Earring Purity Ring Icecrack Ring Engraved Belt Senuna's Mantle EVA20/MEVA 30 + Status Ailments 10 or DT5% or MEVA 45 FastCast: Magoraga Beads for Utsusemi. FC   Sapience Orb Herculean Helm FC5 Adhemar Jacket +1 Path D: HP+105, FC+10, MDT-4% Leyline Gloves MAB15 +MAC15 +ACC15+FC3 Herculean Trousers FC5 Herculean Boots FC5 Orunmila's Torque Enchntr. Earring +1 Loquac. Earring Rahab Ring Prolix Ring Senuna's Mantle FC10 Enmity: Can use Senuna's Mantle with Enmity +10. Enmity   Iron Gobbet Halitus Helm Emet Harness +1 Horos Bangles +3 Zoar Subligar +1 Ahosi Leggings Unmoving Collar +1 Provocare Ring Eihwaz Ring Kasiri Belt Agema Cape