Tank Balance

[TheCount]

Oh how I miss the Heavensward DRK. 3 combo's with the third involving an int down debuff for bosses. Scourge which looked neato and was a great dot. Shadowskin instead of being forced to take rampart in its place so you didnt have that DRK flavor removed. An un-nerfed and genuinely good blood price, an un-nerfed and useful Dark Passenger, a more interesting focus around the gradual draining side-effect of tapping into your darkside which added to the flavor of the class and was something that was taught to you in the questline. Oh, and reprisal of course and even a little baked in stun that you could use if you needed to lighten the pressure for just a moment or interrupt something in dungeons.

Ahh.. good times. Not to mention being considered THE anti-magic tank which was swiftly stolen by Paladins whom can now do it more reliably and easily. Dark Knights now are a shadow of their former selves, with wonky design even in the leveling because you now only get your main ability that you depend on at max level only

[Fredco191]

Was the Berserk + Inner Release into Fell Cleave spam combo overpowered? Is that why Berserk’s gone now? :c

[SenorPatty]

Warriors got beefed like there's no tomorrow

The effect "Halves Beast Gauge costs and nullifies Stun, Sleep, Bind, Heavy, and most knockback and draw-in effects." has been changed to "Allows the use of Beast Gauge actions without cost and nullifies Stun, Sleep, Bind, Heavy, and most knockback and draw-in effects."
The additional effect "Guarantees that all attacks are critical and direct hits." has been added.
Can now be used even when Defiance is active.
No longer changes to Unchained when under the effect of Defiance.

Like holy hell...

Was the Berserk + Inner Release into Fell Cleve spam combo overpowered? Is that why Berserk’s gone now? :c

Berserk's still here but changed.

The effect "Increases attack power by 30%." has been changed to "Guarantees that all attacks are critical and direct hits."
The duration has been changed from 20 to 10 seconds.
Recast time has been increased from 60 seconds to 90 seconds.

10 secs of Crits and DH. That's cray cray
Meanwhile, DRK's just being that third child in the family that often gets neglected lol

[NolLacnala]

But I love re-learning a Job every other patch! /sarcasm

[Fredco191]

Berserk's still here but changed.

Oh shoot. I have a comment to delete on another thread.

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Warriors got beefed like there's no tomorrow

Looks can be deceiving. Bokchoy did a "napkin-math" analysis and concluded the WAR changes result in a net 5% nerf due to their lost potency across the board.

[ServerCollaps]

Looks can be deceiving. Bokchoy did a "napkin-math" analysis and concluded the WAR changes result in a net 5% nerf due to their lost potency across the board.

I'm pretty sure that SE did lots of testing etc, to make the class easier to play, but not to lower its dps
maybe you should just wait for it, do some parses and see for yourself instead of going hypocrite mode

[Rasikko]

DRK had and has issues still but now SE went and messed with WAR in a way that nobody asked for.

One guy asked for it! It was too hard to play.:P

Oh shoot. I have a comment to delete on another thread.

Berserk gets its name changed 'upgraded' to Inner Release.

[Lorgana]

All they needed to do was give DRK an AOE shield, dark arts TBN spread to whole party. Done, dusted. Now they've just cocked everything up

[aeoncs]

Warriors got beefed like there's no tomorrow
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10 secs of Crits and DH. That's cray cray
Meanwhile, DRK's just being that third child in the family that often gets neglected lol

Also 10 seconds of absolutely no synergy with Battle Litany and Chain Strategem, a cooldown that doesn't synergize well with other raid buffs/utility, and an overall nerf to their damage outside of the buff window. And let's not forget the super engaging gameplay of hitting FC 4-5 times in a row like a monkey every 90 seconds.
People need to see the bigger picture instead of going like "omg, free Direct Hit CritZ everywhere!". Warrior won't be buffed, it will absolutely be nerfed, both in their damage and fun factor.


B2T: Smh. I think by this point most people know that DRK has problems but can we stop acting like it's utterly useless? The job doesn't have it half as bad as the HW PLD did pretty much throughout the entire expansion - even the 3.2 changes back then didn't do much to close the huge gap. I do think that when it comes to changes being made, or rather balancing in general, SE doesn't know how to go half-way, so they either do too little (DRK) or way too much (WAR).
Tbh, Warrior Mains have way more reason to be upset right now - the upcoming changes read like a mechanical mess from a gameplay and fun factor perspective.