can DRKs solo?

[moogle pwnt]

title basically says it.. i was just wondering can drk's solo any? thanks

[Murphie]

Any job can solo from 1-10. Many jobs can solo from 10-20 or beyond depending on the skill of the player, gear, etc. But it is slow going.

FFXI is really a party based game. While there are more solo options these days, DRK isn't one of them.

[Tsrwedge]

Google is your friend. (http://www.google.com) (Pro tip: searching for "FFXI DRK solo" might give some good results).

[Malacite]

Oh hey you're the guy who asked about what job to play right?

It's kind of a long answer. In the early going, yes, because you'll be destroying mobs in 1-2 hits. But like every other job, it gets harder as you go up.

DRK does get some nice tools as you level up though to help you solo:

Dark Knight - FFXIclopedia - a Wikia Gaming wiki (http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Dark_Knight)

Lv 10: Drain (Drains the mob's HP to restore your own)
Lv 20: Aspir (Same but for MP)
Lv 37: Stun (Very nice if you're fighting anything with nasty TP moves)
Lv 62: Drain II (Drains more HP than Drain, and if you're full when you cast it it temporarily raises your max HP)
Lv 71: Dread Spikes (Any physical hits you take automatically get drained back from the mob up to 50% of your max HP at the time you cast it)


When soloing you'll want to use either WHM or DNC as a sub (if going for EXP) and THF sub for farming at 30+ (for treasure hunter)

[MrMageo]

Any Job can Solo at any level

However you wont be taking on mobs that you would if you were partying
{(.ex BST/DNC(after Waltz)/PUP,SMN(Lengthy Kill)BLM(Most Go the pet route)}

you will find yourself sitting in places scraping by on EP mobs at higher levels as the /check for EP-IT only takes lvl into account. SE designed this to be a party game hnce its classification as a MMORPG. It is possible but will require tons of time and headaches.

[IfritnoItazura]

Short version:

After Lv.10, DRK mostly exp in party setting.


Long version:
If one really want to solo exp, there are ways to do so, by using /WHM, /DNC, or /BST (if one's BST is at same level as DRK or higher). Or, can just level BST, and forget DRK.

Solo all six standard jobs to Lv.10 first; the drops from that will probably bring in enough gil to fund one job to Lv.30, and give a rough idea of how much fun (or un-fun) soloing in FFXI is.