Why I think Shadowbringers Dark Knight is not going to be fun...

[Darkpaw]

I was hyped to actually touch AST in 5.0 after seeing job action trailer, but leaks and media tour info dropped and revealed that it was all damage up buffs for all cards(would have been nice for certain card to do something more than just damage up for certain roles but that will probably 6.0 to happen)... R.I.P. buff healer fantasy...



Sounds like chaotic fun... not gonna lie...



WARs IR=Fell Cleave spam is basically BLM Fire 4 Spam... and Power Slash animation was downward slash followed by blast of dark energy from the free hand, which was AWSEOME. Dark Passenger was okay but could have been WAY better that's for sure, same with Sole Survivor after it got buffed... Also I will take Dark Arts spam over Fire 4/Fell Cleave spam window anyday...



If you find it fun more power to you, if you don't there are certainly other options like GNB or PLD in terms of tanking...



Going Gritless in boss fights and switching between Power Slash and Souleater was way more fun for me and actually felt like stance dancing, but that's also my personal preference(Yes I like alternating between GCD rotations)...

Hey man i'm all for people finding enjoyment however they like. I do plan to pick up GNB mainly because I'm a huge fan of 8 and ever since i first started this game (end of 3.2 beginning of 3.3ish?) I have wanted a gunblade job (granted I expected it to actually be a DPS not a tank but eh whatever.) so I'm super excited to play it, but I do want to try Dark Knight and see if I still find some enjoyment out of it because as I said I did enjoy the class in 4.x despite my reservations about it. And yea you're right I completely screwed up the animations Idk why but yea.. sorry about that..

as for o6s solo tanking it was kinda chaotic fun but it was a lot of fun I had a blast doing it. By far one of my favorite moments of stormblood personally. Especially that first time I did it. It was such a rush. I am still looking forward to trying AST as I plan for it to be my first healer to 80, yea card changes are a little.. lackluster but the rest of the changes actually seem kinda fun and interesting.. and atleast I don't have to worry about a spire when i need an ewer or whatever else anymore.. that'll be nice. Plus.. no fishing for balances or getting yelled at for not pulling enough balances because RNGesus hates my guts xD.