On a quest to search for the best Duo team in FFXIFollow

Are 75 rdm/nin able to take on IT enemies? I know this is a very general question. Say an IT monk orc? Would they be able to take on most IT or not at all?

Whenever I duo, it's with my friend on THF, evasion tanking while I throw Slow and Para on the mob.. Makes shadow/evasion tanking extremely easy.

Whenever we do tougher NMs, he switches to COR and gives me Evoker's + MAcc roll. Quick draw helps speed up the kills by a pretty huge margin.

I would have to say the best combo would be nin and rdm or thf and rdm. Only reason why nin is equal to thf is cause cause they have to the option of subbing something other then /war and still have shadows.

But me and my rdm friend murder just about anything and everything we can.

Third would have to be blu. But depending on how good that blu it maybe better then the nin or the thf.

It seems everyone else is focusing on a melee duo team, and following that, I'd propose RDM/PLD + DRG/BLU: it's freakin' sick. DRG/BLU gives good damage output, ridiculous healing capacity (basically bottomless healing as long as they're refreshed). RDM/PLD gives good damage mitigation/hate control, decent damage output, and a slew of enfeebles to cripple any monster, not to mention emergency cures, Refresh for your DRG, a mini-Invincible* every 5 minutes (obviously when used with Convert, you can get a safe vert-under-fire while also getting some nice spike hate from double enmity Cure IVs), and a JA stun.

Not to mention Death Blossom > Drakesbane = Light.

*As in, the mob would need to be hitting you for (Phalanx DR + 1) * 10 damage (250 damage with a 24 DR Phalanx) normally to damage you at all at the beginning of Sentinel. A normally 500 damage attack would deal 26 DMG, etc. The effect does get weaker over time, but is easily enough to make your SS last through your Convert + Cures.

Edited, Jul 8th 2009 4:55pm by Aliekber

For IT enemies and below, a RDM/NIN can solo them quite well just meleeing them down, so I'd just grab a strong melee/nin or self sufficient melee (like the aforementioned BLUs and DRG/BLUs) and go to town with enfeebs and joytoy

For higher level stuff and NMs that RDM usually solos, you want a job that speeds up the fight without stepping on your toes too much. SCH and SMN can do large amounts of very low hate damage through their Bloodpacts and Helices, and have innate ways to recover MP without needing refresh all the time, so they are quite good for that. A BLM who can kite can take the heat off you if needed while dropping lots of damage, but is less MP efficient and needs refresh (and the ability to kite since they will pull hate). A BRD to elegy+ice threnody the mob and ballad you will make a hard fight considerably easier, since it will let you nuke more often and make your nukes/binds less likely to get resists, while giving you a lot more MP and a lot more time between enemy swings (helps on fast swinging and/or semi-magic resistant mobs, Zipacna is a good example).

RNG seems like it would work, but there is a high risk of them breaking binds because of the delay on bow attacks and bind's short cast time, which can be deadly on most difficult mobs. Melee don't do too well on kited mobs cause they have a hard time getting TP, and give TP to the mob, plus they can sponge MP on AoEs or taking hate. Having to cure your partner all the time makes the fight harder, not easier :(

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The one factor that can cause serious issues is paralyze or dispel(basically wyverns are little bitches) though at this point you can simply kite-fight though. I prefer RDM/BLU toe-to-toe myself. Aside from this, just about every non NM can be soloed by a RDM with correct prep(echo drops for example)/subs, and the majority of NMs.

P.S Title is misleading, you make no mention of duoing anything, just whether a RDM/NIN can do it. The answer to "can RDM/NIN do it", regardless of topic, is usually yes :)

Edited, Jul 13th 2009 3:48pm by bimrog