Concise Tank Balance Changes

[Chrono_Rising]

Current Reprisal is by far superior to that Reprisal. You can certainly say that you plan for Old Reprisal, but that planning takes an element of chance. It is entirely possible to not parry in the prior time window so you can line it up, especially since the Parry stat was avoided like the plague, and even with Dark Dance, you're looking at a more-often-than-not just not parrying.

Your memory seems to be incorrect. I looked back in time at a physical fight on a 3:45 second fight I had 7 uses of reprisal, seems we parried more often than you think. We couldn’t parry magic, and that was a justifiable issue for that iteration of the ability, but dark mind only has a 1 minute cooldown for a reason. Of course, a number or people suggested fixes for this based on expansions of our current kit.

But it's okay, because it lasted 20 seconds. Odds are you can smash it and cover a majority of the "Plan to use it defensively and offensively" windows, and in the lethal times you don't, it's not like you weren't going to use a cooldown anyways.

Sure, of course that 20 seconds can sometimes include autos, cleaves, and raid wides all of which can benefit from additional mitigation in particular for the party.

It being OGCD only cements it further. Just hit. There's no reason not to. You aren't guaranteed a parry in the coming window to extend its use, and waiting on it is just throwing potency down the drain.

Unless holding it for 5 seconds stops a use it isn’t necessarily a dps loss, and if it helps heal through a critical time, or saves a dps from a hard hitting dot then why wouldn’t that be worth it? Of course you need to plan it out but blanketing it with holding it for any duration is a dps loss isn’t the picture either. Yes, most of the time it was up use it, but it felt good to weave and make that split second decision.

Haymaker's use is more that everything worth mentioning eventually became immune to everything. It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure it was a 30% slow, with a baseline potency of 170, no positional requirement. In other words, Haymaker on a Monk felt great when it was available, which is basically the opposite of Reprisal on Dark Knight for me. It took the worst part about playing melee (Something facing you) and let you bash it for near full positional power. It was a complete warping of the usual dynamic between DPS and enemy. Throw on Featherfoot and you haymaker this stupid thing in the face over and over again.
A "useless" ability for raiding, sure, but a substantially powerful action outside of that. It had impact that you didn't have to check the Logs to confirm.

This is the difference between the two abilities, but this is opinion. Just as yours is. That is why I opened with "We'll disagree here."

This whole paragraph seems to way over romanticize a skill that is even more useless with the addition of true north allowing you to do your entire rotation on an enemy facing you. However, since I see haymaker as only ever being useful in solo content which dies so fast it is hardly worth mentioning I’m just going to move on.

Reprisal was just another button to hit when it flashed up, same with lowblow. It was OGCD after all. The only thing lost with their removal was the animation (Huge) and where you push the button (Not huge). I don't miss it. At all. Not in that iteration. I miss the animation more than I miss the action, and admittedly, I miss counter attacks on Tank, but in this regard TBN / Blood Spiller / Quietus fill that thematic hole better than Reprisal ever did.

Again, I disagree that reacting to procs isn’t fun and adds an element to the class. Its why we have oGCDs, just pressing a GCD action every 2.5 seconds would get stale quickly. You are allowed to have your opinion, but what you are saying applies to every oGCD action but only seems to justify getting rid of certain ones, there has to be more.

I miss the "useless" ability more because, as I said, it filled a glaring hole in the Monk's kit, both mechanically (Because content exists outside parties) and thematically (Why the hell does a Monk -not- have skills specialized for face beating?).

Like how reprisal added fluff mitigation for a dark knight that also doubled as raid utility in physical fights? Like how Monk has true north as a role skill to specifically to ignore positionals?

Ultimately, that's my issue with "Scourge Back, Reprisal Back, Low Blow back". It's like, really. You could cycle the animation on Dark Arts to include those three and it would effectively be the same. Throw Dark Arts in three different places and change their icon via Macroicon for maximum nostalgia.

Great lets do that, while we are at it lets also include the differences in potency, effects, durations, proc mechanics and resets. Might need some updates to bundle the SB additions as well to make it seems alike a cohesive whole.

You want to make the Dark Knight unique and different, I am all for it, but you don't do that by taking three steps back and just plotting on the two fluff damage OGCds and the bleed that everyone had.

I agree, build on what was so that the job feels like an evolution rather than a tear down and rebuild. Stormblood should have brought additions and built on these systems rather than trashing them.