DRK Consolidated Feedback Thread

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It's only bland if you're looking at just the core of it and not the whole picture. Dark Knight is less a rotation based Job and more a priority based one. Just slapping in a third combo just because the others do isn't really going to help matters.

Dark Knight isn't a priority based system at all. Your rotation is very simple, its Hard Slash, Syphon Strike, Souleater. You Bloodspiller when you have enough blood gauge, and you dart arts when you have enough MP. You use Plunge and Salted Earth and Carve and Spit on recast and thats it. It doesn't matter when you Bloodspiller or what you Dart Arts, (with the exception of Carve and Spit) What priority are you talking about? The only priority in the entire class is Dark Arts Carve and Spit. As long as you aren't capping on MP or Blood, you are doing as much as the class allows. What is the whole picture for you?

Dark Mind being situational is fine. Dark Mind being situational when we have next to nothing outside of those situations is the bigger problem in the long run. Something needs to happen, be it DM going all damage types or some other changes.

That is exactly my point. And my suggestion is that the "something" be DM going all damage types. It is a very simple fix that goes a long way. You could change whatever else you wanted, but the magical limitation of DM is a huge contributor to DRK's mitigation weakness.

Unleash and Power Slash are both generally cheaper, weaker, high enmity alternatives to the more expensive and powerful Abyssal Drain and Souleater. Should we roll Power Slash into Souleater just because one is wasted GCDs outside of the opening of a fight? Because that's the same place Unleash is at.

Except its not where Unleash is at. You aren't supposed to use Unleash at all, are you really telling me you use Unleash to establish enmity? You can take it off your bars and your performance wouldn't drop. Power Slash has a use, Unleash doesn't. They aren't comparable at all.

You don't pair it with Blood Price. You pair it with Blood Weapon.

You don't pair it at all, Dark Passenger is a waste of MP. Some people don't even have it on their bars. Same with Unleash.

They put out the nerfs to Dark Passenger specifically to avoid having us use multiple area attacks in single target situations. They're not going to give us a free oGCD instant 240 AoE

and the nerf to Dark Passenger is a mistake. something needs to change with Dark Passenger. It's useless. I'm not sure what you are trying to argue here, that Dark Passenger is fine? It's by far DRK's most underwhelming ability, even if you wanted to argue that it had a use, its use is faar more situational then Dark Mind.

As it stands right now, you can have 30-46 seconds of extra MP and Blood generation. 15-23 if you're the OT. The function may be the same, but the method is different; Blood Weapon rewards offensive playstyles, Blood Price rewards defensive playstyles. And if you wish to make the argument of rolling things together based on function rather than purpose and method, I'll again say to just roll Power Slash's combo into Souleater's. Let's just roll all the tank enmity combos into the damage combos. But this is of course an insane suggestion.

Except Power Slash combo and Souleater have different functions. One is to establish threat and the other is to do damage. What would you do if you wanted to do damage without establishing threat....like an OT does?

Common suggestions do not equal good suggestions. The constant hyperfocus on tank DPS being a pretty good example, all the changes this patch were to accommodate those issues rather than the more pressing matters of mitigation and utility.

Common suggestions are usually good suggestions more often then not. I won't argue more then this, as this doesn't really relate to DRK.