As a humble dark knight long perusing the admirable threads of this forum I have finally decided to make my request. But first, for the adjustment to Last Resort and the addition of Stalwart Soul I bend my knee in thanks. It’s a fantastic answer to the needs of the more martial side of the community. I ask that my fellow DRKs be happy with this because, face it, we aren’t warriors and shouldn’t try to be no matter how hard the howl for greater adjustments should rise.

That being said, I think the more magical side of DRK’s nature needs be addressed. We are a hybrid class, no matter how it’s said or sliced, our MP pool bars us from the pure power of a straight DD job as it SHOULD. (Go ahead, flame me now. I expect it and welcome it. It’s the one truth that started the reign of LOLDRK and emo commentary. Add to the lack of seriousness and disrespect given the DRK community. ) I’d love to see dark magic raised from A- to A+ on the grounds that it is the best magic skill and the larger chunk of the spell repertoire. Speaking as a BLM, which I’ve also had long practice, it stands to a fair reason that it’s a bit silly to have equal dark magic standing with a DRK. Change it, if you please to reflect that job’s mastery since it is DARK Knight. One the same vein, I’d also love to the see the casting times and re-cast times of the Abs spells, Aspir and Drain reduced to reflect this mastery. It would allow a greater usage of debuffs handed out to help torment the enemy and support the party.

I can already smell the pitch and feel the fire - casting takes away from dmg, etc etc. You are swinging a high delay weapon, friends. It is possible to get off spell before the next swing with timing and proper gear. That being said, a reduction on casting /recast timers would be a benefit here that wouldn’t truly be game shattering, just facilitating those of us who acknowledge our MP Pools and actually use them. Before you take the consideration of giving us new spells, please, PLEASE fix the old ones first. There’s no point in giving Abs-Speed if its stuck on the same ridiculous timers as the other spells and frankly won’t change a thing to stall the complaints.

Cheers!