Dark Knight and Incoming Live Letter 4.2 on 12/15/17

[Aana]

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Don't misunderstand. I'm not defending drks current lowered state, just describing what I 'think' the developers envisioned when they designed stormblood Drk.

War/Pld have regular tools to shore up enmity over time. Of course. But if drk 'wanted' to and just spam DA power slash they would easily outstrip both tanks enmity. Just like if they spam it for 30% magic resist they can out magic mitigate. Etc. But leaning that hard in a direction hurts you somewhere else. The design philosophy (as I see it) is Drk is the flexible class. But just like every other game the base efficiency of the real time flexible class/card/item is that it is weaker than a static unchanging equivalent and, just like those other games, buffing that type of flexibility can quickly get out of hand and explains (my guesstimate) as to why SE is so reluctant to buff drk.

But as it stands, that flexibility isn't a valuable trait so you just have a slightly weaker class.

But I think you have a point, I feel like the way you're seeing the interaction between Dark Arts and the rest of Dark Knight's kit is how the development team might be considering it and intending it, too. This does not make for a coherent overall class, though.

Basically that. I'm not saying drk is fine. I'm saying the 'cool' concept the devs came up with is falling flat in practice. Drks higher potential enmity falling apart in practice is just a clear example of that for me. But its the same story for every facet of drk. DA and TBN being highly flexible 1 size fits all tools is also the reason drk cant keep up. They have to pick 1 thing to lean into making it a game of scarcity instead of gameplay focused on directing your flow in real time as it was (probably) intended.