Dark Knight and the Dev Team

[Harukusan]

Um, because balance has to be maintained throughout the game? Come on, use your head, please. How would you like it if people demanded "Warrior or get the hell out" of you, and your melee jobs amounted to Dark Knight and maybe White Mage? And this is concerning most of the good stuff that's out right now.

Clearly someone didn't even read my post, which is fine. I don't take offense to illiteracy.

What I implied was that I don't consider Abyssea to be an actual part of the game. More like a bonus level where you can go batshit crazy on everything and get the best gear to-date in about a week's worth of effort, or less. Abyssea is not going to last forever, so when it dies down, I believe everything will be back to the way things were before. Basically pre-Abyssea, if you were actually good at a job, people would invite you to use it regularly. If we're lucky, we can go back to that. Now, if you aren't a specific job that meets the standard of Abyssea, people treat you like shit and make you the bench warmer. That's basically what everyone is saying about DRK right now. DRK is the one sitting on the side. For now. Everyone should just calm down and think about what the future actually holds, not try to adjust the current situation.

Think about it, do you believe this is the first time DRK has been on the bottom of the barrel? 2004 it was lolDRG and lolDRK and RNG was the leet DD. RNG+NIN+THF+BLM+RDM+WHM = win PT all! omg guys Sidewinder + SATA Dancing Edge + Blizzaga 2 we can get chain 5!! Of course back then some people thought BRD was pretty useless too, and look what's happened to that! BRD is losing the interest of most people again as well.

Did you all forget that just before Abyssea, DRK was one of the most popular jobs to be used as a DD and often times a tank for many situations, especially low-manning HNMs and other similar events.

This is just another phase in the world of FFXI. It'll all be over soon.

[Gradd]

Casting magic (yes even absorb TP) hurts your over all DPS and isn't worth it in any way, that is why you do not see DRKs casting their spells.

[Therin]

DRK would be easy to fix with the coming updates. It's not nearly as far behind the other jobs as people think it is - it's solely that Atma makes critical-based jobs so overpowered that any two-handed DD without a critical WS is subpar. Outside of Abyssea, where the playing fields have been leveled, DRK is only slightly behind, if at all, other DD jobs.

Also, the differences between DRK and WAR are much more than aesthetic as a previous poster suggested. DRK has much greater survivability. I know that, even with Apocalypse, my WAR is much stronger than my DRK in terms of straight damage output, but I feel paper thin and vulnerable when I play WAR because I don't have any ability to regain health, stun the enemy, or use Dread Spikes as a buffer.

DRK can be easily fixed by making more use of its job abilities such as Souleater (perhaps a trait at 95 that lowers the downside to Souleater, so that it takes only 5% of your health, rather than 10%, yet deals the same damage as before), and perhaps the addition of job abilities that allow, or force, critical hits on weapon skills, or additional effects on regular attacks (low chance, say 10%, permanent Endrain is what I'm thinking of).

[Flunklesnarkin]

lower souleater timer to 1 min and ungimp souleater ;o

[blowfin]

Get torcleaver, sub thf. Problem solved.

[Flunklesnarkin]

Thats hardly a solution blowfin... I can't think of any other job whose main weapon is worse than a secondary weapon


edit... but i suppose GA could work.. if they gave drk an A- rating in great axe

then it would be problem solve >_>

[blowfin]

Well if youre going in with a main weapon mindset like that of course its not a solution. Why do you have to be swinging a scythe the whole time to be happy on DRK, its 7 skill levels difference at lvl 90 between GS and Scythe and hardly worth even considering them as main or otherwise.

Also, the GS is the easiest empy to get (with GK and Gun), improves the performance of DRK substantially and you get to crit your WS every 30 seconds if you sub THF.

[Therin]

you get to crit your WS every 30 seconds if you sub THF.

This is irrelevant if your DoT is halved by changing your subjob.

[RaenRyong]

sub THF.

no

/thf can be up to 40%+ weaker than /sam.

[Flunklesnarkin]

A jobs best weapon shouldn't be B- rated ... heck even whm ( considered a non DD job) gets a B+ in its main weapon club

Give Drk an A- in GA and it would be fine to say problem solved imo...


edit.. oh and its not 7 skill level differences between GA and scythe at 90

GA caps at 325 .. scythe caps at 361