Some Dark Knight 4.0 feedback

[Reynhart]

Finally, I felt really squishy

4.0 changes to DRK didn't make you squishy. You're squishy because the damage formula changed. They did the same back in 3.0, so that our numbers don't skyrocket with the ten additionnal levels. On top of that, we don't overgear SB content yet, like we did HW for months.

Bloospiller is a really good skill. Its damage is really great. But I think a little up to it potency under Dark Arts, only 10 or 20 max, would make it better in every way, and will improve a bit the decision making of DRK. As of now, aside of C&S, DA always add 140 potency, making its use mindless. Adding a little more potency on Bloodspiller will make us prioritise it use on it, making us thinking about our use or DA more carefully if we want to optimize our damage output.

It seems to me that people overlook one aspect of BloodSpiller, which is the part where it ignores Grit's penalty. So, when you're under Grit, which you probably be a lot more than in HW, Dark Arts adds more potency on BS than Syphon Strike and SoulEater. So your priorities are C&S, then BloodSpiller, then SS/SE.

[Nivarea]

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I know, I felt squishy on my PLD and my WAR as well. But the lack of CDs of the DRK before TBN made it worse than the two other tanks before 70 IMO.

I'm also not overlooking the potency of Bloodspiller under Grit, it's hands down our best damaging tool when Main Tanking, making DRK maybe the best MT right now. I was ostly thinking outside Grit, when using Bloodspiller is a minor DPS loss. ^^ So minor that it's overshadowed by TBN great utility.
Even at the moment, DAing Bloodspiller is still second on the priority list, after C&S, because in case it crits, the damage of Bloodspiller is exponentially greater than DA+Something else that is not C&S. But the priority over DA SE or SS is minor right now.

[Reynhart]

when using Bloodspiller is a minor DPS loss.

/sigh...no, it's not

[Nivarea]

/sigh...no, it's not

I said it baddly, I was thinking about using TBN on CD to use a bloodspiller after, like Chrono is saying. ^^' My bad, said as it was, yup it was wrong. X)

[Chrono_Rising]

Well we did lose foresight, while not the greatest of mitigations did give us a nice defense buff which had additional benefits from protect.

Also, based on the first two ex primals it appears that grit is only necessary for building our initial aggro lead, as was the case in HW. So I'm very underwhelmed by the bloodspiller ability in grit since I have yet to use it as such. But savage could prove everyone wrong.