Just another DRK thread with ideas about changes.

If square isn't thinking of reworking Drk totally.
Heres a few changes I think would be reasonable.

Dark mind: 60 sec to 40 sec. Hell, maybe Even 30 secs, Helping us become more of a magic defensive tank.

Dark passenger: 100 to 240 potency. No dark arts effect. Still hits in a line & costs 2400mp. Bringing this into our single target rotation.
Change the blind debuff to hp absorption, like DA+Abysal drain.

The Blackest night: Buffing the 10% to 20% on target party member. Making the 5k shield into a 10k+ shield for the party member you use it on.
Since they're so set on making this our only raid mitigation skill, even though its our main mitigation/tank buster tool.

Plunge: fix this skill to where we can double weave ogcd's with this.

Sole survivor:
120 sec changed to 60 secs to match equilibruim's cooldown. 120 sec is way to long for a situational 10k+ heal and a extra DA or TBN.

What's your thoughts on these. Alot of buffs people thought of i feel like would be too much.* I think one person said make blood weapon a trait when out of grit, and blood price when in grit. Mightest well never look at your mp bar again. I tried to make these reasonable to were your not really breaking the class.

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Originally Posted by Rubytoe

Since they're so set on making this our raid mitigation skill.

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But... they're not... It's personal mitigation more oft than not.

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Plunge: fix this skill to where we can double weave ogcd's with this.

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Could totally get behind a less strict animation lock on Plunge, much like WAR's Onslaught.

I'm of a mind to keep DP a dps oGCD so I like your mindset, but I think raid utility can be used elsewhere. PLD and War don't have to use resources for at least minimal utility. If anything, bring back Shadow Skin as a raid wide HP/MP/Mitigation cooldown to differentiate from the other shield/mitigation

I approve.

Shadow wall needs to have the unnecessary 180 sec cooldown reduced.

I'm thinking that Blood Price should restore MP equal to 5%(0.05) of our job's base max MP, not being strengthened or weakened by our current mp.

Edit: I'll rethink that percentage(maybe think of something linear or exponential). The current thought makes blood price completely useless still in the early levels, and that's what I want to address.

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Originally Posted by Rasikko

I'm thinking that Blood Price should restore MP equal to 5%(0.05) of our job's base max MP, not being strengthened or weakened by our current mp.

Edit: I'll rethink that percentage(maybe think of something linear or exponential). The current thought makes blood price completely useless still in the early levels, and that's what I want to address.

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Right not it is 5% of a dark arts. I would love to see it be boosted to at least 10% of a dark arts and be usable in any stance. 5% of our max isn’t a bad idea either at around 1/5th of a dark arts.

Here's how to fix DRK:

Dark Mind: Increases own physical damage dealt by 10% and magic damage dealt by nearby party members by 10%. Both effects are reduced by 20% every 4s. Duration: 20s Recast: 120s (Reverse of Embolden. Makes casters more viable in raid with a DRK present. Gives DRK unique skill that neither tank has.)

Shadow Wall: Reduces damage taken by 30%. Duration: 10s Recast: 120s (Sentinel is 180s but 10% more mitigation)

Sole Survivor: Prevents Bind and Knockbacks, Converts a portion of physical damage to HP. Duration: 20s Recast: 90s (Give DRK a self heal and a Tempered Will skill.)

Dark Passenger: Deals damage with a potency of 100 to all enemies in a straight line before you. Can only be executed when succumbing to the Darkside.
Normal Effect: Blind
Dark Arts Potency: 240
Dark Arts Effect: Increases target's damage taken by 5% or lowers enemy damage by 10%
Duration: 10s
Dark Arts fades upon execution. (Makes dark passenger worth the mp cost)

And before we go into this is too much for DRK, look at the other tanks kits. They are either a tank that has the most complete mitigation kit or the tank with the best shield ability in the game. Both bring the mitigation needed for the fight. Let's make dark the raid wide buff tank instead. It separates him from the other tanks and gives him the utility he needs to stand out.

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Originally Posted by DaemonInazuma

Here's how to fix DRK:

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These actually look pretty good!

I think it would be nice if Sole Survivor had a different kind of utility like being a debuff on target for 20 seconds that whoever inflicts damage to this target would regen a small amount of HP and MP. It could be for some % of damage inflicted. It would be a nice, useful and unique utility.

I don't like the idea of just giving us a party shield like the other two tanks. I guess they should try to do something different. Maybe making us a better single target shielder by increasing TBN from 10% to 20% in a friend.

Dark Passenger and Blood Price should have their numbers adjusted to be actually useful in Savage content.

And I do think they should change our Grit dynamic, maybe making it costs less mana to turn it on. And I don't know, maybe making it a dps gain to turn Grit on when you can double DABS and then turn it off again.

I'm now thinking... just bring back 3.0 blood price, but scale down the base min(when at low level) and max values(when at high levels). I can't remember off hand.. I think it could get up to 298mp return. Just put it at 210.