[Opener/Tips/Advices] How to play Drk

[Freyyy]

Freyyy, can you outline or post a screenshot of how your group does digititis to allow for gap closer use?

We use our gap closers as soon as the knockback begins, thus we don't move at all. We then have the time to very quickly move out of eachother's hitboxes before digititis becomes pass-able; there is a little delay between the time you get the digititis "Marked for [...]" debuff and the time it becomes pass-able (basically the time of the animation surrounding your character). This delay is meant for the cases where two people are randomly pushed-back in the exact same spot. Since we don't move thanks to our gap-closers, we use this delay to get on position. It requires precise timing of your gap-closer but it works everytime. If you use your gap-closer after the full knockback, then yeah, you have a very high chance to screw everything up.

As for Foresight, I'm not really good at all these maths stuff so I can't really do the maths myself to verify if it really scales better with gear than the other pure damage reduction CDs, but most of the time I see a very very tiny difference between when I use Foresight and when I don't use it. The only fight where I'll recommend using it is Thordan EX as you mentionned; DRK can get very squishy with Heels, Foresight is actually noticeable there when complementing other CDs. Other than that, I rather take Mercy Stroke. I'm exaggerating a bit when I say it's "garbage", it's not that bad, but it's still a shitty CD. I can understand cross-classing it on DRK tho because of the lack of physical mitigation we have, and as I said, on Thordan EX I recommend taking it. Really for A3S, when it comes to choosing between Mercy Stroke and Foresight, it's personnal preference. I will never blame you or anyone for using Foresight there, because the boss hits full physical, so it IS useful. It's just that me and my healers didn't notice anything when I removed it.