DRK Adjustments via Manifesto

[Leonlionheart]

I don't mind DRK losing something in order to gain something... but it has to make sense

For instance if you lose 10% Accuracy, you need to gain the right amount of damage bonus, STP, and Haste to make up for those 10 hits out of a hundred.

I know the actual abilities DRK gets aren't so black and white, but seriously. Scarlet Delirium is like giving up 5 minutes of DPS (Cause you probably WILL die if you use the ability to it's maximum potential) for 20~% increased damage.

[Zoner]

Yeah, I'm rather worried about this. Like I said in another post of mine, it could mean they're either ignoring us now, or they're discussing changes among the devs and aren't ready to talk about it yet. Hopefully the latter, but I think it's the former. Currently I feel they're gonna be stubborn and fight tooth and nail to keep Scarlet Delirium useless so that it matches their "vision". Sounds like FF14 all over again doesn't it?

For added emphasis

Sounds like FF14 all over again doesn't it?

I swear so far their stance on dark knight's updates so reminds me of FFXIV alpha/beta. The majority of the community agrees dark knight needs a major overhaul just to be equal to other jobs yet SE seems reluctant to give us anything substantial.

[Cljader1]

I wonder when SE is going to issue us drk another response, they seem to live in the sch forum...is there anyone on the development team that loves drk and wants to restore it to glory

[Zoner]

From the SCH forum:

Based on all of the feedback we have received, we will be making the below changes to SCH:

• Tabula Rasa
Effect duration will be changed from 90 seconds to 180 seconds.

• Embrava
MP cost will be changed from 30% of your max MP to 20%.
Changed to make it possible to be used on players outside of your party.

• Kaustra
MP cost will be changed from 30% of your max MP to 20%.
Increased damage slightly.

As you all have mentioned, since this is an ability/spell that can only be used once every two hours, we revamped it as much as possible.

The idea of the adjustments this time, including the reason for adding Embrava and Kaustra, is to increase the usage of Tabula Rasa. In the future we will be looking at adjustments other than effect duration, but consider this the first phase.


There are still a lot of things we would like to adjust, so we are placing SCH adjustments at a pretty high priority for the future as well.

Guess they're busy trying to make the deadline before the update buffing scholars

[Cljader1]

From the SCH forum:



Guess they're busy trying to make the deadline before the update buffing scholars

But what about us, dont we deserve a look, we only got two responses in the period of 2 months for SE

[Armangetto]

If I remember correctly the reason they didnt give war or mnk much of anything was they wanted the other dd jobs to play catch up. It doest look like they are doing a great job in that area atm... Im really hoping they are gona revamp Scarlet D. If you look at jp fourms of drk,(by using google translate) they are pretty much are saying the same things we are about how bad it is and the fixes they want to it. We arnt the only ones that get a few responses, I belive drg,nin,war,mnk and a few others are in the same boat when it comes to feed back info.

[Cljader1]

Difference is nin, war and mnk are fine so far and the new update will buff drgs out there mind with there wyvern getting a 2000 hp stoneskin or something to that effect, drg's are very happy with there update...but what about us Scarlet Delirium is what we get and its being shoved down our throats.

[Armangetto]

Well they did say the update would be late this month so that means about 1 to 2 weeks left. Im hoping they fix it.... Im just beeing too optimistic....

[Zoner]

Well they did say the update would be late this month so that means about 1 to 2 weeks left. Im hoping they fix it.... Im just beeing too optimistic....

Don't hold your breath. The update is on the 19th, 10 days away.

[Leonlionheart]

In relation to Scarlet Delirium:

Honestly the biggest issue with Scarlet Delirium as it is now isn't that it's not a potent ability, because it really can be. The problem is your survivablility when you're HP has been reduced to 10%.

Even if your WHM is bot-fast and gets you to 100% HP in a split second, you're doing significant amounts of damage on something that you probably shouldn't be feeding TP if it can hit you that hard. So you WILL gain hate.

The issue, if SD doesn't change at all from it's current position, is enmity. If you're expected to live 60 seconds when your damage is increased by significant amounts (wasn't the formula for SD something like 1% HP = 2% Damage increase?), you need to have either severely increased survivability, or severely decreased enmity accumulation.