Dark Knight: Still Searching for Your True Identity

lol I don't even use da dd in dungeons, waste of mp imo w/ this games meta. The faster you kill the easier it is to survive, by time I would even get around to it, monsters already, and why would I waste so much mp to dodge auto attacks when they don't hurt anyway? Da dp is a waste sometimes as well unless they add more than single target trash mobs to raids that can be blinded. And I also agree with the way delirium is it kinda is pointless to bring a monk to the raid and or dark knight with each other, which also means that not every comp is playable which limits the room for players in raids w/ classes. I think the monks should keep the blunt resist but delirium should have a debuff as well added to it.

A lot of stuff for dark knights really don't make sense, I was hoping they would adjust it in 3.2 but se wants us to keep on dreaming. And by no means am I saying anything is wrong with the class where it can't clear content, but a lot of the skills should be reworked.

The problem with Darkside itself is EACH tick drains literally as much mana as an aoe. So you get 15% more damage but you can't spam NEARLY as many AOE attacks in dungeons.

So its literally a choice between 15% extra damage, or being able to use 15 more aoe attacks.

They said they were adjusting the Dark Knight class for PvP, which may lead to buffs and adjustments in PvE as well.

If anyone has played a Shadowknight in Everquest with its boundless lifetaps and consuming its own life for attacks and abilities with abilities like Reaver, and Death March you will see what people are actually missing.

Yes, taking your own life as a Tank is bad... but because of Lifetaps and life drains and sustains you can heal for far more damage then you lose.




I want something like this for Dark Knight.

http://eq2.wikia.com/wiki/Death_March
While death march is active, every time a group member slays an enemy, the shadowknight's groups gains increased intelligence, combat attack damage, casting speed and immunity to control spells for a short duration.

This would be amazing for instances, but would have to be adjusted for FFXIV's much slower combat because your killing things slower. However killing an enemy and gaining a 30-40 second buff would be amazing for a group buff. In the game we barely have ANY kind of cool utilities.





I really.. really feel like they were making Samurai, then was like: "Wait.. Dark Knights are way better for this expac!" then switched to Dark Knight and cept the Parry abilities...

i don't know you darkside nektulos but mine is 265 per tic, is very far for the 795 from unleash, so absolutely is not a choice, every normal and pro dark knight know darkside need to be up 100% of the time in active combat.

drk now is fine, dark passenger and dark dance+ dark arts utility yeah is more for dungeons and many don't use it at all, but are good skills, i recognize with this 2 da effects i buy time for the dps when i take all the adds in a dungeon run.

psd: that death march is extremely op for this game, mods die fast in dungeons.

I guess damage can't be our thing anymore, despite our much higher skill cap of the class. I still very much enjoy our visuals and play style but after going back to finish getting PLD to 60 this weekend (I pretty much did a reverse-Cecil) I had forgotten how completely "EZ Mode" PLD tanking was by comparison, especially considering what skills the PLD gains 50-60 which I had not previously known having only PLD tanked at 50.

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Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor

The problem with Darkside itself is EACH tick drains literally as much mana as an aoe. So you get 15% more damage but you can't spam NEARLY as many AOE attacks in dungeons.

So its literally a choice between 15% extra damage, or being able to use 15 more aoe attacks.

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This is how I know you don't tank... Jesus take the wheel

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Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor

The problem with Darkside itself is EACH tick drains literally as much mana as an aoe. So you get 15% more damage but you can't spam NEARLY as many AOE attacks in dungeons.

So its literally a choice between 15% extra damage, or being able to use 15 more aoe attacks.

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100% Wrong. Darkside drains 265MP, whereas Unleash costs 795MP to use. Abyssal Drain (I don't know why you would spam this on less than 5 mobs) costs 972MP. It's a bad idea to spam Unleash as this is bad MP management and waste of DPS. Abyssal Drain is also a Lifetap in a large mob count with Dark Arts.

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Originally Posted by Ragnorak

This is how I know you don't tank... Jesus take the wheel

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Just learn to ignore this guy.

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Originally Posted by MagiusNecros

Just learn to ignore this guy.

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Oh I know I ain't even touching the rest of his post. I read that much and was just like "why do I even read his posts"

"Not sure I agree with this. The main issue with Delirium is that it's a waste of space because DK supercedes it in utility(MNK benefits from the blunt resist down on top of the magic mitigation via INT down). If you want to create equal footing between the two, it'd probably be better to move the Blunt Resist Down effect to Demolish and keep the INT Down on DK and go from there."

Ze main issue with Delirium is zat it iz not vampiric enoug.

Mak iz zuk avay int inzted, zo ze magik atakz ve hav vil becom strongr az ve fite.

The main issue with Delirium is that it is not vampiric enough.

Make it suck away it instead, so the magic attacks we have will become stronger as we fight.

... I think?