DRKs just falling behind even more.

[Awful]

Paraphrasing of course, but going off the response to the live letter question just now... yoshi straight up told DRK to stfu and go away?

Basically yeah, questions about Shadow Wall and Dark Passenger were asked about buffing them or changing them and they straight up just said no, feelsbadman.

[HyoMinPark]

His comment about Shadow Wall's timing having to line up with things is utter bollocks

Basically he is telling DRK mains to just “deal with it”; this “reasoning” is complete and utter garbage. I don’t even play DRK at a high-end level, and I know that...

[Rosalynd]

Whelp, looks like i will continue to boycott tanking over their complete and utter incompetence over tank balance.

Gonna stick to black mage for the foreseeable future.

[Aniya_Estlihn]

Whelp, looks like i will continue to boycott tanking over their complete and utter incompetence over tank balance.

Gonna stick to black mage for the foreseeable future.

No point in boycotting tanking though, this isn't a social issue or a problem that can really be solved through any form of protest other than people collectively deciding to just... not play Dark Knight.

Edit:

Basically he is telling DRK mains to just “deal with it”; this “reasoning” is complete and utter garbage. I don’t even play DRK at a high-end level, and I know that...

I am very much aware of what he means, but I still fail to see the reasoning behind it other than sheer incompetence and mismanagement, perhaps a bit of tunnel vision as well. I mean he commented on not adding utility to BLM to keep their damage up and retain the identity, but then basically shrugs off DRK and all our criticisms despite the fact our identity is essentially "The worst tank" and nothing more.

[Tubs]

"Q3: The Blackest Night adjustment for dark knight was nice; however, I feel that the effect of Dark Passenger and Shadow Wall are still low compared to the MP cost and length of the recast time. I would like to see dark knight’s defensive properties expanded.

A3: It feels like we’ve been receiving more requests to adjust the other jobs since the latest warrior adjustment.

We believe the balance within each of the roles are starting to be even out, so we’re currently discussing to see how we can make adjustment to dark knight. Please wait a bit longer.

Content is balanced around recast times of the buffs. So we don’t think that jobs will be strengthened simply by reducing the recast timers. We would like to carefully look into this."



This was from the official translation. I'm going to remain optimistic for the time being

[shao32]

Q2: While there were adjustments for all three tank jobs we still think that paladin is the most efficient of the three. Will there be increases to warrior and dark knight’s support abilities and DPS?

A2: Party support abilities are aspects of the job’s identity, so we won’t make everything exactly the same. Also, we believe warriors are very strong right now.

Q3: The Blackest Night adjustment for dark knight was nice; however, I feel that the effect of Dark Passenger and Shadow Wall are still low compared to the MP cost and length of the recast time. I would like to see dark knight’s defensive properties expanded.

A3: It feels like we’ve been receiving more requests to adjust the other jobs since the latest warrior adjustment.

We believe the balance within each of the roles are starting to be even out, so we’re currently discussing to see how we can make adjustment to dark knight. Please wait a bit longer.

Content is balanced around recast times of the buffs. So we don’t think that jobs will be strengthened simply by reducing the recast timers. We would like to carefully look into this.

[HyoMinPark]

I am very much aware of what he means, but I still fail to see the reasoning behind it other than sheer incompetence and mismanagement

That’s basically what I was saying it was.

[Aniya_Estlihn]

So essentially they are reaffirming what we already knew, they have no idea what to do and are having to look into it before making any concrete changes.
I'm okay with that. Since it means there will be something to look forward to in the future... still, I fail to understand how they didn't catch onto this before now.

That’s basically what I was saying it was.

I was agreeing with you in my own roundabout manner, apologies if it didn't come across that way.

[Ryan77k]

The unofficial translation made the explanation about DRK stuff seem way worse than it is. I mean yeah, I'm still a little miffed that they aren't tackling the issues we've been pointing out since SB launch, but at least it looks like they're finally accepting that there are issues that need to be looked into. Finally.

That said, I still won't hold out too much hope. I don't need to feel another wave of crushing disappointment when we get a slight buff to SE potency.

[Aniya_Estlihn]

I don't need to feel another wave of crushing disappointment when we get a slight buff to SE potency.

Our solace here is that he wasn't referring to strength or DPS like he usually does, isntead he was referring to bringing DRK in line with the other jobs in its role. That is vastly different from simply saying "we're going to buff DPS a bit and improve usability" like we got for this patch, and is more in line with what he initially said about WAR before 4.2 dropped. It's a positive note for once, and while I wouldn't get my hopes up for sweeping changes like WAR got, I think its safe to expect some more than what we've gotten thus far. Sadly, unless they decide to release said changes in 4.25, we're still going to have to deal with these problems for another three months.