Thread: Try to predict Nerf/Buff/QoL of 4.2 Tank Edition

I did make the comment as something super petty of me, it's just a pet peeve of mine and if they did actually address it I can see them taking away MP from the DRK's pool rather than cut the mana costs of abilities.

They probably will add more aggro multipliers to our tank stances.

Just with regards to the MP pool discussion: DRK still uses roughly HW proportions between Syphon Strike, DA, and your max MP. The problem with this is that MP generation is much higher in SB with the removal of Darkside's drain effect. This makes it a lot more difficult to "float" your MP between the two extremes, because you're required to handle a much higher incoming rate of MP. A larger MP pool relative to Syphon Strike/DA would give you more room to manoeuvre (due to the larger "storage capacity").

Blood Price is a bit of a wasted ability. Look at this bit of lore:

"So as I was saying, that heretic was fighting like a man possessed. Even after he took several wounds, he showed no sign of pain─though there was no mistaking the blood. As the fight wore on, it began to soak through his armor, spreading to every ilm of his body. But when it began to rise and envelop him as a mist, I realized it wasn't blood, but something dark and twisted..."

I understand the balance difficulty with an ability which gives you resources for being hit. It's bound to be either very powerful or very weak depending on how it's tuned. They could have just re-purposed it as a defensive cooldown - perhaps let its defensive power scale with the amount of damage taken while it's active. As you bleed out, it soaks into your armour, reinforcing it. Either way, I'd rather them change it if they don't think that they can safely balance it, instead of getting a deliberately undertuned action.

Originally Posted by Lyth

Just with regards to the MP pool discussion: DRK still uses roughly HW proportions between Syphon Strike, DA, and your max MP. The problem with this is that MP generation is much higher in SB with the removal of Darkside's drain effect. This makes it a lot more difficult to "float" your MP between the two extremes, because you're required to handle a much higher incoming rate of MP. A larger MP pool relative to Syphon Strike/DA would give you more room to manoeuvre (due to the larger "storage capacity")

I'll take your word on this , I always found dark knight rather rhythmic in its rise and fall of mp with party buffs. If they increased our mp pool to 13K thats fine and well, I just think it is important to note that it doesn't add anything meaningful to Dark Knight DPS, it would still be behind paladin over the duration of any single target fight that matters.

However, increasing the proportion of mp restored could be a vehicle to raise dark knights dps through more dark arts. Really a huge number of dark knight's problems would go away with just raising our resource generation and increasing the duration of mitigation. A 20% increase to resource generation and 50% boost to mitigation duration could be just what the doctor ordered.

Though Dark Knight would still be boned in the area of raid utility.

The DRK discussion has bled into the dps forums it's so bad.