Death Spell

[Daniel_Hatcher]

If this is the way the death spell exist in the .dats files, it should be able to work on all mobs including nms. The reason why is because the mp cost is extremely high (almost double the mp cost of comet) and the recast is 7 mins with a 10% death success rate. The spell should effect all mobs, and be drk only. It'll pose a challenge for drk to get that spell off since its has a extremely high mp cost and 10 second casting time. I think this form of the spell warrants the 10% chance of instant death on all mobs considering the challenge it is for a drk to get it off.

My bad, I wasn't clear. My fault! Only the 666 cost is in the .DATs. Everything else is a guess.

Best: A Darkness nuke with a chance of Death (Even if only via Trait or JA).
Worst: A Death spell with a crap activation rate on fodder, and immunity for NM's would be basically a wasted magic slot.

[Cljader1]

My bad, I wasn't clear. My fault! Only the 666 cost is in the .DATs. Everything else is a guess.

Best: A Darkness nuke with a chance of Death (Even if only via Trait or JA).
Worst: A Death spell with a crap activation rate on fodder, and immunity for NM's would be basically a wasted magic slot.

This couldve been already implemented for impact possibly. With that being said drk can even have a JA called "Sacrafice"

Job Ability - "Sacrafice" - instantly depletes 33% of the drk maximum HP in exchange for unbridled insidious spells of dark magic (under sacrafice the dark knight can be healed and can still be restored to 100% of it original HP)

Spells under Sacrifice
1) The bane of Stop - a spell that stops all actions of an enemy, the enemy have a -75% physical and magical reduction rate when under the effects of stop (damage accumulation does not effect the duration of this spell)
2) The bane of Confuse - a dark spell that occasionally causes the enemy to physically attack itself
3) The bane of Movement - absorbs the movement speed of an enemy and grants it to the drk.
4) The bane of Death - Causes instant KO on a enemy, moderately low success rate (no items are rewarded upon enemies inflicted with death)
5) The bane of Doom -employs a hideous countdown until the enemy falls. moderate success rate
6) The bane of Provoke - a dark based spell used to de-aggro an aggressive enemy
7) The bane of Scythe -occasionally reduces the amount of tp used after a weaponskill
8) The bane of Damage - A dark based spell that grants the ability to occasionally inflict double attack damage
9) The bane of TP - a defensive prowess dark based spell where the user gains 4x the TP from enemies attacks
10) The bane of Blood - a dark based spell that occasionally causes a melee hit to be fully absorbed as HP

[Kriegsgott]

DRK just geting a update and you guys still cry like babys which dont get enough candys....
keep in mind there ar a lot more jobs DRK isn the only one!

[Daniel_Hatcher]

DRK just geting a update and you guys still cry like babys which dont get enough candys....
keep in mind there ar a lot more jobs DRK isn the only one!

You're joking right? Are you referring to the trollJA or trollScytheWS?

DRK is one of the most trolled jobs where SE are concerned, but then hey, what do you know. You're a MNK which is a OP job.

[Kriegsgott]

Actually i'm not joking just a little bit pissed how people flame/cry about SE and how the can't do anything!
there should be a Thank You Camate for reading all the stuff and pass the info to the DEV team
of course people come back with the i pay for the game i need/want stuff now!

but serously everyone who playd 5-6-7 years ago know there were rarely updates and now SE doing a lot more for people why isn this just enough?

[Daniel_Hatcher]

Actually i'm not joking just a little bit pissed how people flame/cry about SE and how the can't do anything!
there should be a Thank You Camate for reading all the stuff and pass the info to the DEV team
of course people come back with the i pay for the game i need/want stuff now!

but serously everyone who playd 5-6-7 years ago know there were rarely updates and now SE doing a lot more for people why is this just enough?

Everyone is nice to Camate, he just passes along the messages and what the DEV's say. No one has blamed him. The blame is entirely on the Dev's as stated many times.

The balance wasn't such an issue at 75 as much as it is now. So many jobs are OP (WAR, WHM and MNK as prime examples) and so many are left in the dust with no fixes even mentioned.

[Cljader1]

Actually i'm not joking just a little bit pissed how people flame/cry about SE and how the can't do anything!
there should be a Thank You Camate for reading all the stuff and pass the info to the DEV team
of course people come back with the i pay for the game i need/want stuff now!

but serously everyone who playd 5-6-7 years ago know there were rarely updates and now SE doing a lot more for people why isn this just enough?

Well if we got more comments in the drk forum that would help a great deal, even if they say we'll look into it or something along those lines. To me all responses from the development team or the forum staff are welcome

[Cljader1]

SE would do as follows:

Death: Deals Darkness damage to the enemy, Occasionally causes KO. (activation rate: 10%)
DRK 99

Cast Time: 10 seconds
Recast : 6 minutes 66 seconds. (possibly)
MP Cost: 666 (This is actually in the .DATs)

Personally I'd prefer:

Grim Strikes (JA)
While under the effects of Grim Strikes your attacks will occasionally cause Doom, Plague or KO.
DRK 75 (20% Plague - 15% Doom - 10% Death)
Duration: 3.00 - Recast: 5.00

Vampiric Strikes (Trait)
Occasionally converts damage dealt to HP.
DRK 50 (10% activation)

I like that idea, so much can be done with this job but SE refuse to do any real work on drk, its almost like its a chore for them to brainstorm and come up with content for a drk update. Blm have talked about comet for years, and now they finally got it, well now its our turn now and we should get "death" as a drk exclusive spells, none of this blm can get it later through the new tier 2 merit or pup blm fame get it...no, but dark knight exclusive only. By the way can we get a +A in dark magic skill to supercede blm -A, there should be a difference between us and blm in term of using dark magic.

[Economizer]

Obviously, the Doom/Death effects from these spells are pretty much just there for the flavor, while the main point of these spells (considering their high cost) is to exploit Occult Acumen. There have been many, many suggestions for this, but I don't think SE has really felt comfortable adding the Doom and Death spells in, due to the lack of use they would have on most things, but if instead the effect is just an added bonus you occasionally get, it would be much more useful.

Going along these lines, the spell could be a much closer analog to another suggestion that has been made, as a sort of Dark Magic version of Holy. The name isn't really important, whether you call it Unholy, or Darkness, or Doom or Death, the ideal is still there.

While it might not be the right solution in the end, I'm personally drawn to the spells being opposites of sorts, and would like a similar death effect for undead, but I think Raise isn't about to be made monster targetable any time soon, so Holy could fill that role. As such, here is the idea:

Doom
Deals Dark elemental damage to an enemy. Additional effect: Doom.
Spell cost: 100 MP
Spell element: Dark
Magic skill: Dark Magic
Black Mage lvl 50
Dark Knight lvl 55
Casting Time: 0.75 seconds
Recast Time: 60 seconds

Death
Deals Dark elemental damage to an enemy. Additional effect: Doom or Death.
Spell cost: 150 MP
Spell element: Dark
Magic skill: Dark Magic
Black Mage lvl 95
Dark Knight lvl 99
Casting Time: 1.5 seconds
Recast Time: 55 seconds

Holy and Holy II might have the same additional effects as Doom and Death respectively, but only against undead. Obviously, NMs are immune.

On the levels, they are obviously to be mirrors of Holy but with the more appropriate jobs, but I have a slight feeling that the two I have listed might be switched for flavor reasons. Regardless, Dark Knight is supposed to, and would get much more utility out of both.

I suppose there could be a merit category for the effect Dark Knight gets as well for proc rate, but I'm not sure how useful that would be. A merit category for Occult Acumen effect would be a better improvement to these spells.

[Kriegsgott]

tbh i have to say the last update isn really a masterpiece of work for DRK of course...
the last MNK updates if there were any didn made me happy and i'm even more unhappy with Relic vs Empy but all what i can do is waiting for the lvl 99 and lets see how our Jobs get pimped/gimped!

anyways lets not run off topic i dont wand to get the Thread closed

as a Bonus Idea
if you guys get Death as Spell or not wouldn it be nice to get a JA for party members to increase the Death Spell resist?