[Suggestion] Job Trait - Reduce spell cost/cast time after WS

Dark Knight Job Ability.

Dark Rush: Reduces both the Cast Time and MP cost of the next spell.

*Dark Rush is obtained as a "charge" after using a weapon skill.
**Optionally Dark Rush may wear off after 30 seconds after a Weapin Skill.

Dark Rush I:
Casting time -15%, MP cost -15%
Obtained: Dark Knight Level 30

Dark Rush II:
Casting time -30%, MP cost -30%
Obtained: Dark Knight Level 45

Dark Rush III:
Casting time -45%, MP cost -45%
Obtained: Dark Knight Level 60

Dark Rush IV:
Casting time -60%, MP cost -60%
Obtained: Dark Knight Level 75

Dark Rush V:
Casting time -75%, MP cost -75%
Obtained: Dark Knight Level 90

This will help Dark Knight utilize all spells in its aresenal and get those Magic Bursts out after a skill chain.

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Originally Posted by Madawc

Dark Rush V:
Casting time -75%, MP cost -75%
Obtained: Dark Knight Level 90

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Not gonna happen. Would have to be more reasonable.

overall stupid idea

I think a mild "dark magic" only fastcast with several tiers would be cool. If low enough, subbing /DRK and haste caps could keeps this job trait in-line.
Or, something with "dark magic" accuracy for darkkinghts trait. Then again "dark seal" and that other /JA exist.

You might have been lucky getting the fast cast effect on Dark Spells only, but you'll never get the 75% MP cost or it on any other spells.

DRKs will never cast elemental spells the way it is now. I highly doubt DRK will ever get enough MAB/MACC to even match normal melee dps, which must be rediculously much.

This trait can solve so much. Too many years have gone by without a fix.

I'd love to whip out a Thunder III after I close a Skill Chain. But 128 MP and 6.75 seconds is just too much. Our MAB/MACC is too weak to even consider it. As I see it, either boost MAB/MACC or boost FastCast/-MPcost. And if I had to guess, giving DRK more MAB/MACC then BLM is out of the question.

We already have five tiers of Occult Acumen, equipment with Magic Attack Bonus, the possibility of using red mage as a support job for Fast Cast, the possibility of using scholar as a support job for Dark Arts and its Stratagems, Dark Seal, Nether Void, the Twilight cloak and its Impact spell, and you still aren't satisfied?

Elemental magic is not the focus of the dark knight. Physical damage is, with dark magic to support that. You should be grateful Occult Acumen even works with elemental magic. If you want to use elemental magic so badly, just become a black mage or scholar and be done with it. As a dark knight, however, you should only be Magic Bursting with elemental magic when you're soloing, or using it to find yellow weakness triggers in Abyssea or Voidwatch.

By the way, Madawc, you need to visit this link as soon as possible.

It is not that I want to use elemental magic so badly, it is because we have a potential which is unused. Yes we can sub RDM or SCH, but that will only gimp us melee wise and reduce our overall effecitveness. While other melee jobs get full benefit of all their abilities, we are held back. We are supposed to be a combo of WAR and BLM, using both "sides" to cripple the enemy.

Occult Acumen, diabolic eye, nether void, dark seal; I would trade them all for Dark Rush! Thats how useless they are to me.

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Originally Posted by Madawc

It is not that I want to use elemental magic so badly, it is because we have a potential which is unused. Yes we can sub RDM or SCH, but that will only gimp us melee wise and reduce our overall effecitveness. While other melee jobs get full benefit of all their abilities, we are held back. We are supposed to be a combo of WAR and BLM, using both "sides" to cripple the enemy.

Occult Acumen, diabolic eye, nether void, dark seal; I would trade them all for Dark Rush! Thats how useless they are to me.

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yeah or we could stop asking the development team for things like this and we might see another buff to our melee side...... you know the side we have that matters.

just pointless to post crap like this

also close the thread there is no new information happening its just flaming so close it.

First of all, our potential with elemental magic has to be lower than any other job, red mages included, because we're mainly a melee job. Why? Because we're not mages. We don't spam magic. We aren't supposed to. You just go Dark Seal, Nether Void, Drain II, Dread Spikes, and Endark, and you're done casting spells for a long time. This is not true for mages. Mages have magic and very little else. The only reason scholars even get Occult Acumen is Myrkr and Spirit Taker.

Secondly, how in the world did Diabolic Eye get into this conversation? It has nothing to do with magic.

I do agree that our magic needs to be fixed, but Dark Rush won't solve anything. It'll just make us gimpy black mages, and we don't want that. Our Absorb spells need to be fixed, Dread Spikes needs a buff on duration, and if you absolutely must insist on an elemental magic buff, then I'd prefer a job trait that let us instant-cast elemental magic when a skillchain occurs.