Boycotting Dark Knight

[Gojin]

oh wow, you want to boycott now that WAR gets its buffs you werent boycotting at beginning why start now.

[Chrono_Rising]

oh wow, you want to boycott now that WAR gets its buffs you werent boycotting at beginning why start now.

Checking the post history, Dark Knights have been complaining since job details were released both unofficially and officially, and it has continued through now. If we do nothing our job issues will continue to be overlooked.

We tried starting a conversation. SE didn't respond and pushed us further out of the meta. We need to raise more awareness about this if we want to be heard.

[Azerhan]

As long as you can enjoy the game, changes do make players change their perspective. All good.

I'm not sure it's "all good". The numbers of DRK players still decreases since SB's launch... And now with the WAR's buff...

[Derio]

Sad thing is some players dont want to play WAR or PLD they want to play DRK and when the DRK balancing is this bad it just pushes them to play DPS which hurts the queue system even more.

[SyzzleSpark]

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Starting to hate this word "viable".

This is a red herring; if you'd been actually reading these threads you'd know - you keep talking about viability, but nobody else is, and viability has everything to do with content and very little to do with DRK as a job or its balance with other jobs in its role, which is what most of these threads are addressing. Its viable because the content is easy and the job is not broken per se, but it is suboptimal and there is nothing it can do that either of the other tanks can't do better, it has no niche, no speciality.

Piddly potency buffs and +6% mitigation with 15/40s uptime won't fix this. All it will do is make DRK into PLD/WAR Jr. with no raid mitigation tools, which is basically a slightly better version of what we already are.

[MagiusNecros]

I detest those that have this mentality of "if a job can clear content then said job is fine". Pffft.

[WhyAmIHere]

I detest those that have this mentality of "if a job can clear content then said job is fine". Pffft.

If a monkey can climb a tree a fish can too!

[Shinkyo]

Piddly potency buffs and +6% mitigation with 15/40s uptime won't fix this. All it will do is make DRK into PLD/WAR Jr. with no raid mitigation tools, which is basically a slightly better version of what we already are.

Yes it will.
DRK is very easy to bring on par with pld/war.
Buff TBN so it procs a free DA, add DA effect to TBN for aoe shield and maybe a physical mitigation to dark mind (but lower than magical to stay in lore).
DRK fixed.

[Nivarea]

I was already using my DRK less and less now that I have both WAR and PLD at lv 70, I'm still planing to play it less and less until there is some changes. =/

I mean, I don't know how to play WAR well yet, and I'm still doing simillar numbers in raid content while helping more with Shake it Off. And when doing parsing tests with my tanks, while my DRK is the best equipped (330 weapon against 320 for both PLD and WAR), I'm doing more DPS both as a PLD and WAR. It's really sad, I loved DRK in HW, and I still like it in SB despites the changes.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

I definitely demand Scourge back. There are literally zero reasons to have taken it away, it was potent and fun to use. That would be a huge step towards a nice fix for me, and it's easy as heck to put it back.

I, too, want Scourge back, but instead of a dot, I'm thinking it could combo off Syphon Strike like old Delirium and maybe fill your blood gauge faster. Not only does that help with Dark Knight's low DPS by allowing for more Bloodspillers, but adds a much needed alternative to spamming Souleater.