Dark Knight Megathread

What are the chances they unlink abyssal drain from C&S and give it some buffs? It's the one iconic skill we have left and it being relegated to dungeon only skill is painful. Lower the cd, give it a short regen and we get more things to do and it fix some sustain issues. Its not that hard SE.

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Originally Posted by Jakulo

What are the chances they unlink abyssal drain from C&S and give it some buffs? It's the one iconic skill we have left and it being relegated to dungeon only skill is painful. Lower the cd, give it a short regen and we get more things to do and it fix some sustain issues. Its not that hard SE.

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Very low chance, job design team never makes good decisions for these things unless its for Warrior.

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Originally Posted by Jakulo

What are the chances they unlink abyssal drain from C&S and give it some buffs? It's the one iconic skill we have left and it being relegated to dungeon only skill is painful. Lower the cd, give it a short regen and we get more things to do and it fix some sustain issues. Its not that hard SE.

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AD wasn't shown at all in the trailer while C&S is, so its very likely they're still acting like its Upheaval/Orogeny

Even though realistically Abyssal Drain could have twice the heal potency on half the cooldown and still come up short compared to what PLD and WAR are bringing

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Originally Posted by Keagian

Very low chance, job design team never makes good decisions for these things unless its for Warrior.

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I remember when drk was the warrior with dark arts abyssal drain in stormblood for trash packs. Man I really miss blood price…….

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Originally Posted by Mortex

I remember when drk was the warrior with dark arts abyssal drain in stormblood for trash packs. Man I really miss blood price…….

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*Sudden holy appears*

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Originally Posted by Mesarthim

*Sudden holy appears*

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At least you still got some passive blood generation out of it...back when blood actually interacted with MP and wasn't just the completely disconnected Bloodspiller gauge.

Then again why would you have used Blood Price on trash when you could've just used Blood Weapon? Significantly more MP, more blood and DA+Abyssal had bonus enmity so you didn't need Grit for aggro.

Actually depressing when you think about how SB Dark Knight was considered a worse version of HW DrK but was still significantly better designed than anything post-5.0.

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Originally Posted by Absurdity

Then against why would you have used Blood Price on trash when you could've just used Blood Weapon? Significantly more MP, more blood and DA+Abyssal had bonus enmity so you didn't need Grit for aggro..

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Blood Price was MP when you took damage. Blood Weapon was when you dealt physical damage. Blood Price was absolutely the better ability for MP regen on trash.

Yoshi P in Live Letter: "We want to focus on job identity in the future."

Also Yoshi P: Gets rid of Plunge, a sick overhead leap with a giant weapon, and gives us a uninteresting homogenized monk-esque teleport.

Getting some seriously mixed signals here. Among other changes to DRK and tanks in general in the Live Letter. Don't really feel like I should give the dev team the benefit of the doubt when it comes to future job changes at this point.

I miss the 15 seconds of God Mode when Blood Price and Abyssal Drain were a thing.

When it comes to Yoshida he always says one thing and does another. He talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk.

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Originally Posted by EusisLandale

Blood Price was MP when you took damage. Blood Weapon was when you dealt physical damage. Blood Price was absolutely the better ability for MP regen on trash.

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That depends on the expansion you were in.

Heavensward Blood Price worked by scaling with damage taken from what I got told, which is where your argument may have come from.

Stormblood Blood Price gave MP and Blood per individual hit, namely 1/20th of a Dark Arts worth of MP and 1 Blood per hit, with an additional 4 Blood per server tick (20 max unless extended). It was also locked behind Grit being up.