Quote Originally Posted by EdgyLatinName View Post
I can tell you right now its not.

A 120 second 10% extra damage does not beat a warrior memecombo (ontop of a DMG buff if they have it) almost 2 shotting a dps and outside of berserk still doing great damage.
Considering how much people complaining about Machinist and Bard burst as well, which will be boosted by Sole Sacrifice, it might be far more effective than you think.

I like Dark Knight a lot, but we gotta accept that SE has no idea what they're doing and that the class was constructed without a single thought of PvP in mind (which is weird because the Feast has apparently been on the drawing board for a long time). It also doesn't help that a lot of suggestions for Dark Knight are reddit tier, the class either needs good utility on most of its skills (not just buffing some garbage drain) or make it more damage oriented like Warrior. In a perfect world, we'd see class representation at the end of the season (but unfortunately due to how this game works that's pointless) where paladin and dark knight representation stand because I'm monitoring Chaos / Aether / Primal daily and neither of those classes exist, it's warrior 24 / 7.
That is mainly because Warrior effectiveness is mostly independent of the rest of its party members. A Paladin needs two good DpS in party in order to kill targets while they lock down the healer. A Warrior only needs two mediocre dps focusing the same target to be effective. The question will be how good the two dps will need to be for the Dark Knight to be effective.

I'm cautiously optimistic that these buffs will be enough to make the Dark Knight usable in the Feast (which is the Dark Knight's current problem). If this works, I hope that they start working on balancing the three tanks (which may involve nerfing Warrior's burst) when Season 2 starts.