Proposed Dark Knight Changes

[Aniya_Estlihn]

Why on earth would you want the speed boost from blood weapon removed?

[superluminalflower]

Why on earth would you want the speed boost from blood weapon removed?

Did you read the post? It would be removed because Souleater would give the same speed boost except all of the time.

[Aniya_Estlihn]

Did you read the post? It would be removed because Souleater would give the same speed boost except all of the time.

I did but isn't that a bit much? I get what you're trying to do here, but that just seems... really, excessive and also kinda strange.

[superluminalflower]

I did but isn't that a bit much? I get what you're trying to do here, but that just seems... really, excessive and also kinda strange.

Why would that be a bit much?

[Aniya_Estlihn]

Why would that be a bit much?

I just have to question why anyone would want a speed buff tacked onto a combo-ender to add what essentially would be huton-lite to DRK's GCD... At that point, Blood Weapon may as well just become a trait in it's current form and always give a speed boost to Dark Knight rather than make it a personal buff to reapply via your weapon-skills, as that's essentially what you're suggesting; plus with how few GCDs we have it would always be up so there'd be no point to the effect being tied to Souleater in the first place. It's just... an odd thing to suggest. Personally, I'd much rather they remove the stance lock on Blood Weapon and Blood Price than remove the speed boost from BW altogether and then add it to the GCD... it's just kinda strange.

I miss being second in speed to Ninja like we were in Heavensward, but turning Dark Knight into a tanky Ninja with an easily applied Huton just seems overdone. I do agree that a four tier combo would be nice, and I personally question why Bloodspiller wasn't that combo in the first place, but not to add a speed boost effect. That's just weird.

[superluminalflower]

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The play style would be nowhere near ninja, also nowhere did i suggest that Bloodspiller would be a fourth tier combo, it would be an alternate third tier, so the rotation would go SE combo > BS combo > BS combo > BS combo > SE combo

[Aniya_Estlihn]

The play style would be nowhere near ninja, also nowhere did i suggest that Bloodspiller would be a fourth tier combo, it would be an alternate third tier, so the rotation would go SE combo > BS combo > BS combo > BS combo > SE combo

You know, I missed that. In your synopsis you wrote "every fourth combo" for Soul Eater usage and I, for some reason, took that to mean you wanted it as a tier-4 combo ender off of Bloodspiller, that is definitely my bad.
If that's the case, then I don't actually disagree with most of your proposed ideas, though I do have a bit of a bias towards Lyth's suggestions moreso than anyone else's. I was just an idiot who apparently couldn't read properly for over an hour.