Category:Sambas

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Sambas are one of the three types of dances available to Dancers. TP is required in order to use Sambas. The different types of Sambas are all placed into one Job Ability category, meaning that when any Samba is used, its individual recast timer must be allowed to cool down before another Samba may be used.

When used, the player's standard melee attacks become temporarily enchanted with the ability to inflict Samba Daze effects upon enemies that they strike. Samba Dazes allow the player and anyone in his/her party (not alliance) to gain beneficial effects upon all of their standard melee attacks against the Dazed enemy for as long as the Daze effect lasts. This effect differs from Step Dazes (see Steps page for more information).

The effects granted by Samba Dazes are considered to be low-priority Additional Effects. Following the rules of Additional Effects, only one may take place with each melee attack. For instance, casting Enthunder will cause an "Additional Effect: lightning damage" to take place on all of your melee attacks. If you have Enthunder active, you will not be able to receive the beneficial effects of Samba Dazes, because Enthunder takes priority. However, if you are the one with a Samba effect active, it is still possible to hit enemies and inflict them with Dazes even with Enthunder active, such that your party members may still see a benefit from their own attacks.

Samba Dazes wear off very quickly (approximately 3 ticks or 9 seconds) unless the player who originally danced the Samba continues to hit the enemy with their Samba effect still active. Missed attacks do not count, and neither do hits with Ranged Attacks or Weapon Skills.

A player may only have one Samba active at a time, and an enemy may only have one Samba Daze effect at a time. If two players with different Samba effects attack the same enemy, their Daze effects will overwrite each other. The Daze effect the enemy will have will correspond with the Samba of the last player that successfully landed a regular melee hit on the enemy.

Wearing the Dancer's Tiara upon activating a Samba ability extends the duration of the Samba effect by 30 seconds. Daze potency and duration is not affected otherwise.

Sambas are learned by Dancers at the following levels:

5: Drain Samba

25: Aspir Samba

35: Drain Samba II

45: Haste Samba

60: Aspir Samba II

65: Drain Samba III