Originally Posted by Sasaki  |
I'm about to finally start doing my Promy runs, and I'm looking for one piece of information.
Everytime I've heard people talking about Promies, it's been all SMN, RNG, and WAR/NIN. I've virtually never heard of anything else taken. Will I flat out never get Promies done if I want to do them DRK/NIN? Or is there some reason I'm not getting as to why WAR is a must. |
The main reason for job selection pickiness is the boss NM at the top of the spire. The trip up to the spire is mostly avoiding aggro and fighting Memory Recepticles. DRK/NIN will probably be fine for mop up duty on Strays while taking down Recepticles.
For the boss fight, SMN, RNG and WAR tend to be sought after due to their ability to deal a high amount of damage in a quick burst through their 2 hours. When I did Promyvions, the WARs waited until about 60% health to unload 2 hours, followed up shortly by the RNGs and SMNs. As a DRK, you might be able to fit that role by stacking up all of your big damage buffs since you already have access to Soul Eater at level 30. Great Sword and Scythe weapon skills are still rather weak at that level, so you might want to opt for Great Axe and use Sturmwind.
As a DRK, you'll probably want to have WAR leveled as a subjob. You could opt to wait until you have WAR up to level 30, and do the first 3 Promyvions as WAR/NIN. One advantage of WAR/NIN over DRK/NIN is that you can help tank. Two WAR/NINs for Promyvion is nice, but 3 of them (as opposed to 2 WAR/NINs and one DRK/NIN) is even better.