Dark knight skill set leaked?

http://sokuho.xii.jp/ff/?p=26525

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Originally Posted by FinalWolf

http://sokuho.xii.jp/ff/?p=26525

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Might be a leak from their test servers. Though it's more likely a leak of English patch notes. The Japanese says "it's in English"

Hmm, so a 30% lifetap "Tank Stance".
Some mitigation skills similar to Rampart and Thrill to Battle.
And an invuln similar to Holmgang which shares excess damage.

Well, its interesting information.

The last two skills make me a bit dubious as to the authenticity. They sound far too similar to existing Warrior skills only slightly worse, since it sucks HP away from nearby party members. I can't imagine many people are going to be happy about their HP dropping every time the tank takes a heavy hit with Blood Oath active.

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Originally Posted by Lemuria

The last two skills make me a bit dubious as to the authenticity. They sound far too similar to existing Warrior skills only slightly worse, since it sucks HP away from nearby party members. I can't imagine many people are going to be happy about their HP dropping every time the tank takes a heavy hit with Blood Oath active.

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It's possible that it's an AoE version of WARs skill, where everyone shares the damage, but no one who is close enough to be affected by it can drop below 1hp.

-Oath of Blood
Most attacks cannot reduce your HP to less than 1 for 10s.
However exceeded damage must be shared with nearby party members at the end of effect.
Cooldown:90s
i see much trolling in this job........

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-Involuntary Guilt
Delivers an attack with a potency of 600.
Potency decreases as HP increases.
Additional Effect: Silence for 1s.
Cooldown: 45s

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Can already see the DON'T HEAL ME macros

Oath of Blood makes the troll in me so happy!

If nothing else it'll be fun to use, and I'm sure it'll spread properly among party members.

Also the guilt one? Use during Oath of Blood. I can already see myself loving the hell out of this class if it's this based on risk=reward.

A little skeptical... It seems like all the skills are just skills from PLD and WAR... Even the emnity combo and MP restoration combo look like renamed PLD combos. Like someone created a "How I Think DRK Will Work" and just changed names and values.

"-Oath of Blood
Most attacks cannot reduce your HP to less than 1 for 10s.
However exceeded damage must be shared with nearby party members at the end of effect.
Cooldown: 90s"

This kinda sounds like you can kill your party, this way... o_o; Or, at lease, the nearby melee.

nice :o *studies like mad* is there one for astrologian :O?

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Originally Posted by Saseal

However exceeded damage must be shared with nearby party members at the end of effect.

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Doing t9, lemme eat a divebomb then stack up with the party. Nothing can go wrong.

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Originally Posted by mp-please

Doing t9, lemme eat a divebomb then stack up with the party. Nothing can go wrong.

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Better yet, a charge from t10. Our WAR once reported he took a hit for 4x his HP.

Yeah it says this was a "preliminary" set and I believe it. No way an ability like that would make it out of testing.

good thing is now we can blame the drk for the all the wipes ;) , we were going to do it anyway :P ,embrace yourselves, the loldrk era is coming

Did anyone made a backup? I get a 503.

/edit: nvm. Link on reddit does still work.

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Originally Posted by Ashrak

Did anyone made a backup? I get a 503.

/edit: nvm. Link on reddit does still work.

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Here you go: (site still works for me)

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This is a provisional version actions of Dark Knight that test used till the end of 2014 summer.
DK's offencive action potencies were a bit higher than Paladin and Warrior as DK is not quite so
increasing damage as them.
Most of below actions will be modified and you can see many added actions in Heavensward because this version is designed for level 30 to 50.
Of course, you can also expect of Astrologian and Machinist.
Don't Miss It!


-Yieql Blade
Delivers an attack with a potency of 110.
Additional Effect: Damage over time with potency of 20 for 9 sec.

-Overhead Slash Delivers an attack with a potency of 100.
Additional Effect: Increased enmity
Combo Action: Yieql Blade, Combo Potency: 220.

-Unholy Strike
Delivers an attack with a potency of 100.
Additional Effect: Increased enmity.
Combo Action: Overhead Slash, Combo Potency: 290, Combo Bonus: Lowers target's evasion by 15% for 15s

-Aspil Thrust ( Probably Aspir Thrust )
Delivers an attack with a potency of 100.
Combo Action: Yieql Blade, Combo Potency: 250, Combo Bonus: Restores MP.

-Roar of Rebel
Increases physical damage dealt by 20% for 20s.
Cooldown: 70s

-Evil Omen
Reduces damage taken by 20% and reflects all 10% damage for 15s.
Cooldown: 60s

-Agglutinate Curse
Increases enmity in all nearby enemies.
Additional Effect: Slow +10% for 15s.

-Nocturnal Fear
Delivers an attack with a potency of 70 to all enemies in a cone in front of you and stun 2s.
Potency and stun duration increases by number of negative effects.
Cooldown: 15s

-Immortal Conviction
Converts 30% of the damage into your HP and increases enmity, while lowering damage dealt by 25%.

-Dark Force
Delivers a ranged attack with a potency of 130.
Additional Effect: Increased enmity.

-Involuntary Guilt
Delivers an attack with a potency of 600.
Potency decreases as HP increases.
Additional Effect: Silence for 1s.
Cooldown: 45s

-Oath of Blood
Most attacks cannot reduce your HP to less than 1 for 10s.
However exceeded damage must be shared with nearby party members at the end of effect.
Cooldown: 90s

-Thirst for Justice
Increases maximum HP by 40% and restores the amount increased for 15s.
Takes a half of damage from all nearby party members 10y or closer.
Cooldown: 180s

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EDIT: Ah, didn't see your update.

How can one verify the authenticity of this? o.o

Lol also...DK? donkey kong? It would be DRK haha...

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Originally Posted by Iromi

How can one verify the authenticity of this? o.o

Lol also...DK? donkey kong? It would be DRK haha...

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One cannot, so take it with a HUGE heaping of salt.

What worries me is that while DRK has the rampart equivalent (which is also an IB equivalent), the sentinel/vengeance equivalent (thirst for justice) seems too weak. It's a double strength thrill of battle without the drk having the double conval to pair with it. Last I read, defiance's 20% hp and + heal isnt even the same ehp as 20% reduced damage. How is that any good for multi hit attacks like dungeon tanking, t9 claws, t13 akh morn?

Speaking of akh morn...can you imagine trying to take on a 3+ hit akh morn with oath of blood without any other mitigation? Considering what's near you is usually the other tank and one or two melees..

Looks like somebody took some PLD skills and a few WAR skills and changed the names of them... I call BS

People who keep commenting that its the same skills as PLD and WAR, well that was going to be obvious because when they tried to make WAR different at the start of the game it got thrown away because it had no damage mitigation and was discarded because it was unable to main tank coil using the mainstream strategies so they turned WAR into PLD by jamming dmg mitigation on a bunch of things and buffing Defiance.

If square made a tank different to the current PLD/WAR dmg mitigation tanking then the DRK would be again discarded when it comes to using cool downs for absorbing hits necessary to beat the newest raid teir.

Plus it says EXCEEDED damage is shared between players which would imply any damage AFTER the 1 hp would be shared, not very trolling if you use it at full hp.

Furthermore it was noted this is old information from last year and is likely to of been heavily modified by now. Nocturnal Fear seems massively overpowered for speedrunning cone stun (since they seem to hate speedrunning, why give DRK a skill that makes it easier) Even more so if you get a sch/smn to spread dot's.

I was hoping to find a Provoke equivalent skill as if I see Drk hold onto one of those it would either mean it is NOT cross classing GLD or has no cross classes at all.

Personally I wouldn't say it's too far off a testing skill set as it does seem to be kind of a wishlist of skills that would likely get nerfed down after some testing, things like Flash that does slow instead of blind, cone aoe stun, silence, berserk with no drawback and the scariest skill of all:

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Thirst for Justice
Increases maximum HP by 40% and restores the amount increased for 15s.
Takes a half of damage from all nearby party members 10y or closer.
Cooldown: 180s

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Essentially that is a stack and absorb skill, DRK could use that alongside evil omen and immortal conviction (45% damage mitigation + 40% Max HP buff) An i130 PLD with full VIT accs is likely to have 9000+ hp with 40% onto that they get 12600 hp with 45% mitigation, if you had an AOE that did 4k raid wide you would take 2k per person x7 = 14k + 4k for yourself = 18k minus 45% mitigation = 10800 dmg, that would make eating any big aoe attack almost trivial, you could combine that with oath of blood just in case and you would just reflect any additional damage over your max hp at a mitigated rate back to the players you absorbed it from. That would be in a perfect scenario, you could atleast use it to protect healers and halve their aoe dmg, if this is the case you would easily see DRK being the new speedrun AND world first tank (considering healers have the least HP and are the most likely to die after DRG's magic dmg defense buff from unavoidable aoe's) It would provide not only personal mitigation similar to PLD but also cone aoe stuns for adds and a silence for unstunnable boss magic skills.

Seems a little too OP for them to be what is likely to be released, alongside a bunch of traits that could enhance those skills and other supplementary skills to go alongside.

But its on a 90 second CD! I have to use it at every possible trolling moment in DF!

I don't know how authentic these moves are...looks kinda fishy. And yes it looks like both PLD/Warrior skills. But one thing is missing.. SE mentioned Dark knight will use mp to generate a dark shroud/ dark aura and the goal is to maintain that using Mp. this leak does not seem to mention that.

It's most likely an early build of the job.

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Originally Posted by UMiahNaweh

Looks like somebody took some PLD skills and a few WAR skills and changed the names of them... I call BS

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I agree with this. If for some reason it is legit, I'd be disappointed in SE for being lazy. Plus Yoshi has said that it plays differently from the jobs we have now.

Lol.. They spell

YOU ARE AN IDIOT.

Fakeboyz

Read the first letter of every skill.

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Originally Posted by Addicted

Read the first letter of every skill.

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Yup, quite the clever troll, huh?

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This is a provisional version actions of Dark Knight that test used till the end of 2014 summer.

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Just saying.

Beautiful.

Well, I'll be darned. I was successfully trolled.

Yep, the first letter of each skill. I laughed.

"Ahahah, I'm gonna troll the party with Oath of Blood" [cit. every tank trolled by the fake list - me too]

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Originally Posted by Priwia

"Ahahah, I'm gonna troll the party with Oath of Blood" [cit. every tank trolled by the fake list - me too]

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Me and another person tried to think of any attacks that would actually kill the other tank and one other melee in FCOB if a 10k hp drk uses OOB and couldnt think of any save for akh morn. Still not sure about revelation, how much does it do raw? 20k?

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Clever, clever.

Sounded really horrible anyway. Why would you pick the job that shares damage with other party members when you could pick the two that... don't?

Feels like someone C/P'd the WAR/PLD mainstays and renamed them to be dark and edgy, in all honesty. They already said 'abilities that reduce or take group member's hp do not sound feasible' in an earlier interview.

EDIT: Wow, I didn't even bother to read most of it...xD Brilliant.

Wow. I was gullible until one of my friends pointed that prank out.

I got rather upset, but I'll admit it had a side effect: it's getting me more motivated to prep for Heavensward.

The person who created the troll moveset and people who believed it are not paying attention to the basic concept of Dark Knight.

It is an MP-based tank which must maintain a buffing aura of darkness for both protection and dealing damage.

So, where is that attack used to power up your sword? These looks.. way too much like Warrior moves.