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Saber Dance
Job Ability
- Increases Double Attack rate but renders Waltz unusable. Double Attack rate gradually decreases.
- Obtained: Dancer Level 75 Merit Group 2
- Recast Time: 3 minutes
- Duration: 5 minutes
Notes/Description
- Each upgrade increases effect duration of sambas by 5%. Maximum upgrade 5/5 increases effect duration of sambas by 20%.
- Also applies to weaponskills.
- Does not stack with Fan Dance.
- Saber Dance will overwrite Fan Dance, and Fan Dance will overwrite Saber Dance.
- Saber Dance boosts double attack rate to 50% immediately after usage, and it decays to 20% over the next 30 seconds.

- Average Double Attack rate with 1/5 merits is 21.5% (assuming 5 minutes per usage) while average for 5/5 merits is 22.5% (assuming 3 minutes per usage).
- Saber Dance does not stack with Double Attack from Warrior sub job, but will stack with any Double Attack from gear.
Macro Syntax
- /ja "Saber Dance" <me>
Source entry: Saber Dance. Cached on this server on 5 November 2026.