4.1 Dark Knight Feedback and fixes

[Aana]

I understand where you are coming from, but I also feel like darkside is already used as a blunt force weapon against us. "You have a constant x% always active and cannot lose it unless you die". If we continue to increase DS I feel it becomes more and more of an excuse to tell us that we don't need anything. For example, TBN is a powerful shield on dark knight, but for a months it was pointed to as the answer to any mitigation or dps problem dark knight had when brought up in any context, despite the fact that people put time and effort into explaining why is wasn't "Free DPS", "Free Utility", and all the other misconceptions about how it functioned.

Oh I understand that. At some point buffing poisons, darkside, flat 'on' damage buffs gets a little crazy. "Darkside increases damage by 50%".....

I just prefer more targeted buffs that directly address the issue instead of the kind of roundabout ones. It could be darkside, it could be the Drg treatment (Every skill+10 potency lulz). Is TBN to weak? Instead of a complex 10 step plan with tiered effects and growing costs per use, just make the shield stronger, or the duration longer. Reduce the CD. Reduce the cost. Increase the reward. There are much less obtuse ways to fix things that wont confuse players. Play with the numbers before we redesign a job.

Maybe darkside isn't the answer to this one (it was just an example), but there are relatively simple ways to fix the problems drk has that avoid a rework.

Fundamental job reworks are exceptionally rare. The last one we got was 2.1 war, and that was only because there was a grand canyon chasm of difference between pld/war at that time. Things are 'close' now. We aren't going to get fundamental job reworks when the jobs are this close. Redesigns are only realistically used when jobs are beyond help or an expansion. We aren't getting an entire drk rework. We can, and will, get minor tweaks.