Dark Knight Starter Guide for Level 30-50: New to the Job? Start Here! [FFXIV 6.40+]

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I explain all of the important aspects about Dark Knight to get started, including both a detailed overview at level 30, as well as explaining the actions you learn all the way up to level 50. The guide also includes general combat advice, openers and rotation, and cooldown management as a tank.
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:26 Tank Stance
00:42 Basic Attack Combos and Area of Effect
01:28 Flood of Darkness and Darkside
02:17 Pulling Tools and Taunts
02:52 Defensive Cooldowns
03:46 Stuns and Interrupts
04:17 Level 32 Arms Length
04:39 Level 35 Blood Weapon
05:10 Level 38 Shadow Wall and more on Defensive Cooldowns
05:54 Level 40 Stalwart Soul and Edge of Darkness
06:49 Level 45 Dark Mind and Damage Types
07:21 Level 48 Shirk
07:43 Level 50 Living Dead
09:03 Level 50 Opener
09:33 Level 50 General Rotation Advice
10:40 Fun Fact

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@CaetsuChaijiCh 9 күн бұрын

I have remade this guide for Dawntrail! Find it in the link below! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gsChatiZl8Cvf58.html

@azmakikian5400 Жыл бұрын

"Moogle Bad" This comment was left by Team Sidrugu

@CaetsuChaijiCh Жыл бұрын

Make sure not to bring moogle great sword to the reunion! 😂

@LavaGuy219 Ай бұрын

Thank you, this guide helped me finally take up DRK, and its been great so far learning a new role.

@CaetsuChaijiCh Ай бұрын

I'm glad to hear that! And I hope you enjoy your time with Dark Knight!

@fawkes6352 7 ай бұрын

I'm going through ARR right now as a Gladiator/Paladin to get the hang of tanking, but I plan to switch to Dark Knight as soon as I can get it in Heavensward. This guide will really help me ease into the role once I get it. Thank you in advance!

@CaetsuChaijiCh 7 ай бұрын

That is an excellent way to get into the role! 😁 I'm glad my guide helped you! And enjoy your journey with dark knight (and partly paladin!)

@FishSkeleton- Ай бұрын

Kudos on this guide, it seems like it would be really helpful for new players for my favorite tank.

@CaetsuChaijiCh Ай бұрын

Thank you! I'm glad to hear that! 😄

@faulergeist4159 3 ай бұрын

I genuinely love your guide videos, you have an easy to under stand format of skills and abilities, and a voice that is clear. I just got into the game about 2 weeks ago, and am really hyped for dark knight, so this helps a bunch

@CaetsuChaijiCh 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! 😄 Welcome to Eorzea, and I do hope you enjoy dark knight once you reach it if you haven't yet! 😊

@wanderingwizard42 6 ай бұрын

This was an awesome explanation I sometimes find a lot of these videos weirdly hard to follow but you did a great job!

@CaetsuChaijiCh 6 ай бұрын

I'm glad to hear that! Thank you! 😁

@leocreuu3254 22 күн бұрын

A tip that helped me is do the low level dungeons with your squadron where all the attacks are not available so you can learn the basics combos and gradually get new ones to implement instead of looking at all these abilities and try to learn All of them at the same time

@CaetsuChaijiCh 22 күн бұрын

You could also just do low level dungeons with duty support, or even with other players, the advice is still good! 😁

@sweetmoves1043 Ай бұрын

I still struggle to understand a lot, but it's nice to have a blueprint of how to use the class in battle. I started this game 2 months ago and wanna be a Dark Knight main, the community is nice so it helps, and guides like these are great thanks!

@CaetsuChaijiCh Ай бұрын

Welcome to the game! I am sure you will get it with more practice! 😊

@sweetmoves1043 Ай бұрын

@@CaetsuChaijiCh Thanks! maybe i'll hit 50 in a few days! then it's your other video to also get!

@swiftxrt 7 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot for helping me to understand Living Dead! This video and your comments in my thread on the other video really helped me to understand what I was doing wrong, and I really appreciate it.

@CaetsuChaijiCh 7 ай бұрын

I'm glad I could help you! The ability is absolutely one of the most convoluted in the game so it is perfectly understandable to have a hard time with it! 😊

@liekevantilburg1431 Жыл бұрын

Great guide! Really looking forward to the advanced one to further improve my drk gameplay! Saw that you also have one for warrior, I should definitely check it out. Also, that was the best explanation of Living Dead that I ever heard!

@CaetsuChaijiCh Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! 😄 I hope you also find the warrior guide helpful! 😁 And thank you, living dead is quite a crazy ability! 😊

@Timelesone 3 ай бұрын

This was an amazing experience. Thank you!

@CaetsuChaijiCh 3 ай бұрын

I'm glad to hear that! Thank you! 😄

@SinsYEP 4 ай бұрын

Thanks dude that was actually helpful and direct

@CaetsuChaijiCh 4 ай бұрын

I'm glad to hear that! I hope you enjoy your journey with dark knight! 😊

@Woah_Egg 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! This is super helpful, I started FFXIV recently and i’ve been a dps main for all arr but now im in hw and i wanted to try and see how tanking is like! I will definitely use this video for when i am unsure on stuff.

@CaetsuChaijiCh 3 ай бұрын

I'm glad my guide helped you! The jump from dps to tank can be quite big, but I am sure you can do it! 😁

@Keijiro1988 Жыл бұрын

Ahhhhhh here we go I’ve been waiting for this 👍🏾

@CaetsuChaijiCh Жыл бұрын

I'm glad to hear it! I hope it was worth the wait, and that you found it helpful!

@Keijiro1988 Жыл бұрын

My DRK is now 70 since we last spoke. I saved that and SGE for a solo leveling since they get easier queues. I took BLM, MCH and RPR to 80 together through the MSQ. Just finished ShB I’ve followed your guides for all of my jobs so far. I’m looking forward to your 51-90 guide now. And also the BLM remake guide. I hope I’ll continue to be able to learn what I got from your guides for extreme, savage and ultimate content later on. Cause mastering multiple openers and rotations is a nightmare 😂

@CaetsuChaijiCh Жыл бұрын

@@Keijiro1988 Thats awesome! I'm really glad to hear that my guides were such a big part of your journey leveling the jobs! I am sure as you get more and more practice with the jobs, that you will get better and better acquainted with openers, and eventually you will be able to remember the openers from your general knowledge of jobs!

@JohnSears Жыл бұрын

Finally! I can play Dark Knight properly now! (Dark was my second job to reach 90. Lol)

@CaetsuChaijiCh Жыл бұрын

Depending on the timing when you reached level 90 with the job, they might've changed it quite a bit with the Blood Weapon rework! I hope you still found the guide interesting despite that! 😁

@Ymirsabella Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the guide Cae ohh yeah and BLADE

@CaetsuChaijiCh Жыл бұрын

I hope you enjoy it, Ymir!

@RicardoSantos-oz3uj 11 ай бұрын

I found easier to turn off the tank stance when i am OT. Give a minute or so. Then turn it back on. Then turn it off when the aggro is yellow or orange (meaning you are doing more damage than the MT). That assures you are 2nd in aggro.

@CaetsuChaijiCh 11 ай бұрын

That is also a safe strategy! Very good suggestion! 😊 I usually turn on my tank stance after the initial opener is finished, and then manage it throughout the fight! 😁

@zephyrus7244 Жыл бұрын

DRK gang rise up

@CaetsuChaijiCh Жыл бұрын

Unleash the DRKs! 😁😄

@HyouVizer 8 ай бұрын

such a lovely guide, my edgey boi DRK heart is cleansed ✨️💜 Oh LV50+ DRK guide too 👀

@CaetsuChaijiCh 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! 😊😄

@stickboot 9 ай бұрын

good vid

@CaetsuChaijiCh 9 ай бұрын

Thank you! 😁

@RoxiieReadsLore 4 ай бұрын

In your videos, when you say to use the 123 combo on less than X targets : Should you be doing the whole combo on one target, then switching and doing the whole combo on another? Or should you alternate and do Attack 1 on Target 1, Attack 2 on Target 2, Attack 3 on Target 1 again, etc?

@CaetsuChaijiCh 4 ай бұрын

You can alternate as you like! 😊 Usually if I am using single target actions with multiple enemies, I always try to focus the enemy with the most hp, at least once I've established enmity on all enemies as a tank. The reason I would focus the one with most hp is because a lot of jobs have attacks that are good for single target that incidentally contain area of effect components, so leaving mobs alive for longer by spreading your damage more, or focusing the healthiest, is an overall damage gain for the group! If on the other hand you are feeling quite pressed and killing mobs would help, instead focusing the weakest mob remaining is better 😊

@RoxiieReadsLore 4 ай бұрын

@@CaetsuChaijiCh Makes sense, ty for the help and swift reply!

@MarcoDuran Жыл бұрын

Ha what luck. I just unlocked DK and now there's a guide!

@CaetsuChaijiCh Жыл бұрын

Perfect timing! I hope you find it helpful!

@shadowslasher1551 3 ай бұрын

Thanks hopefully things will die fast with wall to wall

@CaetsuChaijiCh 3 ай бұрын

Usually it goes fine, but the only way to learn it ultimately is to try! 😁

@I3orjoyzee Жыл бұрын

I hate there is multihit animation, but you get only one dmg number:/

@CaetsuChaijiCh Жыл бұрын

I get what you mean 😊 a lot of jobs have multi hit animations but only one attack actually hits multiple times for damage I believe (ninjas dream within a dream) I think if all multi hitting attacks gave multiple damage numbers it would be overwhelming though 😅

@I3orjoyzee Жыл бұрын

@@CaetsuChaijiCh Maybe:) But DK attacks are slow and big. Without dmg they are without impact, its sad a little bit. Dancer attacks are alsou without impact its like throwing sheets of paper:)

@CaetsuChaijiCh Жыл бұрын

@@I3orjoyzee Oh what I meant was more that if the attacks did their damage over multiple hits, then the numbers would be smaller, but there would be a lot more numbers, and that would probably not be very helpful to see what you are doing! Few big numbers at least makes you feel like you are hitting harder!

@ryanstecken8872 5 ай бұрын

How tf do i even unlock him ffs

@CaetsuChaijiCh 5 ай бұрын

You have to progress the main scenario quest until you reach ishgard, where the job can be unlocked. This requires completing all of the a realm reborn story, which includes level 1-50, as well as a "post-game story" that stays at level 50 for a while. 😊

@DuvalRypr 3 ай бұрын

@@CaetsuChaijiChpost game story AND the Crystal Tower. I got to the end of 2.5 or maybe even into 2.55 and the quest marker on Minfilia was red so I couldn’t continue until I finished the primal trials (hard). Finished those and then continued the quest until I completed 2.55 and was locked out of the last quest (maybe last 2?) and the ending cutscenes until I completed the Crystal Tower quests. I feel like Post ARR was damn near as long as ARR itself lol

@CaetsuChaijiCh 3 ай бұрын

@DuvalRypr yeah that post-game is notoriously long! 😂