A Humble DRK's Request

[Geabrielle]

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!

[Dart]

have to agree, and you're echo'ing one key thing that I've been saying all along. That we don't really need a bunch of new features, just fix what we have.

[Kagato]

I also agree, though I would love more exclusive DRK spells and a stronger Parry too.

[Unctgtg]

Agreed with OP

[Geabrielle]

Thank you, everyone. I’ve also decided to dive in and ask for advice. As a career BLM by necessity of my LS family, I need a bit of help refitting my existing DRK without too much merit tampering as I’ve been poked by old friends to bite the bullet and go for a Redemption. (Caladbolg is an easy solo/duo/trio to attain being as I’ve BLM and RDM and beloved friends for aid. But I adore scythes so much! They’re utterly deliciously wicked weapons, yes?) As it stands, I know I won’t put out excessive, mind blowing damage being riveted to BLM merits, having a Mithra’s STR and all but I’d love to perform as best as I can given these circumstances. So let the advice/flame/education begin!

Cheers!

[vedder]

honestly caladbolg will destroy redemption day in an day out, id honestly say get caladbolg first, spinning slash an torcleaver are some very good ws that great sword has. If your deadset on redemption all i can say is gl, i do plan on getting it one day too, but at present cala is by far superior and the recent update has unloaded a ton of vit gear drk can use for its wsc mods. that being said, just from looking at mods an such id gear quietus same as guillotine.

On another note im also a blm 90 and with the new merits for things im still meriting str above int (favours more jobs an fstr, etc etc) and put dark/enfeeb/elemental magic at max so on the magic side of things drk an blm both benefit as does rdm should i level it one day so merit wise your ok mostly.

As for the subject of your topic, i wholeheartedly agree, we're not wars but the issue lies in the fact of being a dd-magic hybrid that leans towards dd, our spells need to be more effective an something that make ppl go "hey come drk for _name of spells here_, an dding"

since we dont have the straight up dd power of a war but arguably have slightly more defensive ability between stun dreadspikes etc maybe enliven that aspect as well, theres really no reason why if we arent (i hate this phrase so much) "glass canons" like blms why we need such lackluster defensive ability

[Geabrielle]

Ah, welcome brother dark mage! (a nick my friend gave me for being drk and blm exclusively for some time )
. Just for the sake of difference I do plan on loving up my Redemption and its guillotine knock off WS. How can we ask for improvements to WS if we don't do all we can to understand them, eh? Though I disagree that drk defense is lackluster given the gear available to us, survivability depending on situation is for us to police as dictated by our own playing styles. Thanks for the advice and luck, its appreciated greatly.

Cheers!

[Cruentus]

I'd just like to say that I think Geabrielle is awesome. I just hope you don't get harassed by horny men too much, being both Mithra and dark.

Personally, I'm tired of using Guillotine and seeing Insurgency, though. If they could give us a new scythe weapon skill, or even better, fix Quietus, I'd be happy.

As for the whole magic thing, that's the first thing I mentioned on these forums. Granted, I posted in the wrong forum, but still... But yeah, I really think you know what you're doing. Dark knights should have the highest-damage weapons, but also the slowest, so we have the time to incorporate our magic, which is less than stellar right now. 0 casting time on Absorbs, removing the decaying effect, and maybe adding Absorb-SPD would make the job much better. Whether we even need Absorb-SPD now is questionable, thanks to the changes made to Last Resort.

[Urteil]

I'd just like to say that I think Geabrielle is awesome. I just hope you don't get harassed by horny men too much, being both Mithra and dark.

Personally, I'm tired of using Guillotine and seeing Insurgency, though. If they could give us a new scythe weapon skill, or even better, fix Quietus, I'd be happy.

As for the whole magic thing, that's the first thing I mentioned on these forums. Granted, I posted in the wrong forum, but still... But yeah, I really think you know what you're doing. Dark knights should have the highest-damage weapons, but also the slowest, so we have the time to incorporate our magic, which is less than stellar right now. 0 casting time on Absorbs, removing the decaying effect, and maybe adding Absorb-SPD would make the job much better. Whether we even need Absorb-SPD now is questionable, thanks to the changes made to Last Resort.

DRK is far from slowest now, its like a berserk mad-man. In a lot of ways it is more like Warrior than WAR is. . .

[Cruentus]

DRK is far from slowest now, its like a berserk mad-man. In a lot of ways it is more like Warrior than WAR is. . .

I was referring to the fact that scythes have the highest delay of all weapon types, and since that's the dark knight's best weapon, it would make us slowest.