DREAD SPIKES / DOOM SPIKES
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Dread Spikes______60sec recast, 20sec duration
- Can Parry magic
- Parry Rate +
--- Additional effect: Dark Arts has 30% chance to reset Salted Earth Cooldown
--- Additional effect in Grit: Parried attacks trigger self-heals of 50 potency.
- Parries generate stacks of Dread Spikes, at 4 stacks Dread Spikes become Doom Spikes
Doom Spikes:
-(same as Dread) and in addition:
-can Parry from the flanks (not rear)
-Parried attacks trigger 50 potency magical counter attack
*Combo finishers and Dark Arts buffed Abysmal Drain add 18 seconds to Dread/Doom
GUILLOTINE / DIABOLICAL EYE
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Guillotine _________ (5 second recast)
* Requires Dread Spikes to use (but only Dread, cannot be used under the effect of Doom Spikes), consumes 10 seconds of buff duration
- Delivers magic attack with potency of 280, OGCD
--- Additional effect in Darkside: Grants a Dark Arts
--- Additional effect in Grit: Self-heals with potency of 1,200
Diabolical Eye ________ (shares recast with Guillotine),
* Requires Dread Spikes or Doom Spikes, consumes 10 seconds of Dread/Doom duration
- buff to self & nearby allies, all gain Diabolical Eye buff: they're next Weaponskill absorbs 100% of damage dealt, 10 second duration
- also debuffs target with diabolical eye. Enemy suffers increased vulnerability to magical Critical Hits (bonus modifier to the damage dealt of magical crits) & they cannot evade attacks (voids accuracy cap). 60sec duration
The jist of it being a 'Blood of the Dragon + Geirskogul'-esque mechanic for DRK that works parallel with native gameplay. Instead of Geirskogul DRK has a choice between utility or self-heal (but both are +DPS either personal or party), and the utility shouldn't be too hard to keep at full uptime.
The Dread Spikes converting to Doom Spikes via a stack generating lockout is a quid pro quo mechanic. But this plays into a mechanic to diverge DRK in MT or OT. If tanking, Guillotine gets locked out and the Dread Spikes Ability has to be re-used to re-open a short window within to use Guillotine (pseudo 60 second recast for 1,200 self heal, but with more gates to handle)
this utility option is my bid for the "Healer's love DRK most" trophy.