Dark Knight Feedback

[Faytte]

Pretty sure that Divine Veil doesn't apply to the PLD. Only to his party members.

Stone Shield and Clemency also are interrupted easily, and stop you from blocking/parrying. If you know an attack is coming, stone shield is fine (you will just fall MORE behind on aggro, a major issue for paladins atm). Any attack that deals magic damage will interupt clemency, and healers will top you off before it and after it faster than your spells will matter.

70% of clemency casts basically mean nothing.

[Freyyy]

Stone Shield and Clemency also are interrupted easily, and stop you from blocking/parrying. If you know an attack is coming, stone shield is fine (you will just fall MORE behind on aggro, a major issue for paladins atm). Any attack that deals magic damage will interupt clemency, and healers will top you off before it and after it faster than your spells will matter.

70% of clemency casts basically mean nothing.

Clemency is better used on another party member (could be the other tank) to help out the healers during healing-intensive phases than on yourself anyway.

[Erim-Nelhah]

Huh? If they went this route with Reprisal change, I don't see the issues you list. There's plenty of WSs already that require a buff to be executed (Geirskogul?). Would it be OP? If they adjusted the recast to 20 seconds so that 100% uptime is possible - yeah would lean to heavily on DRK/WAR WAR/DRK groups. But to compensate for that all they'd have to do is make it so it doesn't stack with Storm's Path.Of DRK's entire toolkit, Reprisal is near the bottom of my list of concerns - but a change to it isn't unrealistic I think.

The problem isn't that the ability would only be activatable when DA is up, it's that it would be activatable either when DA is up or on a cooldown, regardless of whether it still required a Parry or not. That kind of "cooldown or proc/state" ability is something that I haven't seen on any other ability in the game. The server-side code definitely exists, but I'm not sure that the client could currently handle this effectively.

It's just preference - but I would hate to see more Parry focus for DRK. That's not their intended design. If SE goes that route it's stepping away from MP management & Spell focus tanking. They already share too much in common with PLD, trying to buff Parry use to work like a PLD's Shield for both physical and magical hits.. not very original.. and DOA imo

Hmm...I actually like the idea of DRKs being able to parry magic. While not all that original, it does fit thematically with us being the "anti-magic tank", and it gives us the ability to use Reprisal in fights with no physcal component.

--Erim Nelhah
(Master, Astral Descendants <AD>, Malboro)
(60 DRK Main)