DRK Adjustments via Manifesto

[Return1]

Catastrophe's Haste Aftermath is still pretty damn strong, but I certainly wouldn't complain about it breaking the 80% cap and taking us to 90%.

As it stands, Apocalypse is currently DRK's strongest weapon, and Catastrophe is the strongest 100tp Scythe WS.

This is either awesome when you think that having Apoc makes your DRK the strongest it can be, or sad when you think about Empyreans and other jobs like WAR's Ukko's Fury.

[JovialRat]

just hearing from the dev. team is a plus in my book, hearing their thoughts, what they like and what they are planning it hawt stuff. we'd only get that info on the update version day or days previous.

[StingRay104]

Meh, DRK's blubbering about a lack of gear to make nukes count has me shaking my head. As is, the back is certainly our weakest slot for these builds, but +53 INT and +34 MATK is possible with a set, maybe more depending on what you have access to. Compared to RDM, I'm sitting on +73 INT and +33 MATK. No doubt a native MATK trait helps, as well as the likelihood of swapping staves. Regardless, these can double toward the elemental WS like Infernal and Herculean, which may be further adjusted amongst the vague reference to WS adjustments. Insurgency going crit-based could also be among those tweaks. I do feel DRKs should get at least level 2 in the MATK trait, though, and all the MP jobs deserve some form of tiered auto-refresh to both up longevity and versatility.

All the magic att gear in the world means nothign since our basic melee hits will do more damage and do it faster than our current "Nukes" not to mention our low mp pool makes it even more useless to bring this point up. Rdm has access to all this refresh gear, refresh 1 & 2, and convert, DRK has none of these, all we get is aspir and aspir 2 and we all know how well they work. BTW I have actually gone out in abyssea with hell's guardian and ultimate atmas on my DRK to see if they made Herculean worth using, and the answer is nope. DRK was never meant to cast t3 nukes, period, rdm was built to cast lots of nukes and do it very fast.

As for all the QQ about no crit ws, well they are still doing a big ws adjustment, so just because they didn't mention it doesn't mean that it won't happen.

[Anathiel]

Well, with the new abilities, wouldn't you be able to MB on your own SC and do competent damage? I know that SC aren't the big thing in abyssea, but I definitely remember magic bursting on my own skill chains back in CoP days.

[Quetzacoatl]

Well, with the new abilities, wouldn't you be able to MB on your own SC and do competent damage? I know that SC aren't the big thing in abyssea, but I definitely remember magic bursting on my own skill chains back in CoP days.

I wouldn't magic burst with elemental magic on DRK unless you get a big return on Drain2/Absorb-TP.

[Unctgtg]

I am waiting to see what they have planned for Apoc 95, and how much WS boost we get again.

[Urteil]

Does "Revamping the difficulty of skilling parry" mean its going to be easier or harder to skill parry?

Who knows what the fuck this means.

Or what it had to do with the question about DRK actually getting use out of one of the most useless Job Trait/Job Combinations ever.

[Urteil]

I wouldn't magic burst with elemental magic on DRK unless you get a big return on Drain2/Absorb-TP.

DRK is long overdue for increased potency to its spells, or having the unique quality where magical attack bonus increases the power of its Drain/Aspir line.

[Taint2]

I am waiting to see what they have planned for Apoc 95, and how much WS boost we get again.

Apoc is already DRKs best weapon, stop sweating the weapon and hope they fix the job.

[Kojo]

Apoc is already DRKs best weapon, stop sweating the weapon and hope they fix the job.

Does Catastrophe do 3k-5k though?