HiiEN Wrote:Unless by some miracle you get Berserk 30 before 140 (by earning or buying), I wouldn't put points until the 140s unless it guarantees you the ability to 2hko Skeles or Newties. Sure you can survive, but it's useless if all you're gonna do is kill easy mobs with horrible exp ratios or kill bosses for the rest of your life. I think stance is more useful before berserk, so I'd max that before berserk (staying on the topic this is unwashed). Leave stance at 20 as you described, then get berserk to 20 (or max it if you get the book by then), then do aura. Following that would be achilles, which I'd max instead of leave out at 20. In my opinion Dark Knights don't need MW20 until way later, if at all. I leave that to the other characters to use it for me. For me, the order would be in the later levels:
Max Achilles > Max Maple Warrior > Hex, if I even decide to get it.
One thing people fail to consider about berserk - even if you don't use it 100% of the time when training, if you think about it, it can be a great sudden damage boost after you get hit (get hit into range, attack, pot, and continue as normal). Even this will greatly increase your kill speed. Another option not mentioned is the guide is a Blood Build - instead of washing from MP into STR and placing level points in HP, you can simply pump points straight into HP for around a 400 point boost in HP (with HB) per level. A few levels of this won't severely hurt your damage, and can greatly improve survivability and length of berzerk time, overall increasing your DPS. This is what I am doing personally
.edit- one thing you fail to account for entirely is polearm dark knights - we will NEVER 2hko skeles with Fury before very late 4th job, unless we are dumb enough to use sacrifice (mind you this is without HP washing) while in berserk. Assuming sacrifice is able to 2hko a skele, the damage returned to the dark knight would be extremely dangerous and would probably place them 1 hit from death. We are...well...screwed...Nexon really did fail to give PA Dark Knights any real options for training...