Which DRK was the best

[Hierro]

DRK thread
literally nobody:
Lyth:

WAR mains

[Derio]

I guessing those who voted for SB never had the chance to play HW DRK.

[shao32]

DRK thread
literally nobody:
Lyth:

it was a gentle way to say "you" i guess you miss it.

[Lyth]

...

I simply couldn't resist the urge to deflate you a bit. It's a good thing every so often, especially in your particular case.

[Hierro]

your particular case.

I don't mind being a good sport about fun banter, but it's like you forget I main both tanks. I liked HW DRK a lot! I'm just not blinded by the nostalgia of having said tank be in the mandatory meta spotlight. Sadly, profile limitations only allow me to list one job as my main.

[Jandor]

I guessing those who voted for SB never had the chance to play HW DRK.

I did, still prefer SB DRK.

[MagiusNecros]

Heavensward Heavensward Heavensward.
The fact that people even voted for Stormblood at all is kind of worrisome to me.

Could be players that started with Stormblood and had no idea what the vanilla Dark Knight was like.

[TheForce]

Could be players that started with Stormblood and had no idea what the vanilla Dark Knight was like.

Haha, I'll admit I'm actually one of those people! But, I've always been a very curious guy so naturally I had to do my research and dig through the internet to see what DRK used to be like at its conception. Long story short, I was pretty blown away.


Comparing Heavensward DRK to SB DRK is like comparing Inner Release to Shb Delirium, lol.

[Kyni]

Could be players that started with Stormblood and had no idea what the vanilla Dark Knight was like.

Nope been around since arr and voted for SB. I can also tell you why. The addition of a second resource to manage with some interplay between mp and blood was a step forward. And yes this means I really liked SB Delirium and think the best post SB release change DRK got was the addition of mp regen to Quietus. I also liked TBN, because I'm a fan of short duration short cd cooldowns that can be used in an emergency and it's ability to shift mp to blood ( and through this giving you the ability to tailor your gcd to phases).The change from a focus of not bottoming out on mp to not overcap was also more to my taste, i prefer punishment by wasting resources to forced breaks (why is going to be demonstrated by ShB DRK). In general i like the flow of resources in SB more than HW, it's much more bursty nature ,outside of bloodprice during aoe in HW, and it's doubling down on making the rotation based mostly on resources ( be it through generating, maintaining or dumping them), made for fun gameplay for me.

And yes i can admit not everything was an improvement, they really shouldn't have overemphasized dark arts this much. They removed low blow, reprisal and dark passenger from the ogcd side and replaced it with more dark arts. While the first 2 are somewhat understandable,with both requiring the drk to mt the boss for full effectiveness ( which is also why bloodprice was nerfed), keeping dark passenger as a better damage per mp but with a cd alternative would have been a good idea.

On the other hand i didn't care much for the removal of scourge, the old delirium and the mp drain on darkside. The nerf to bloopdrice required some getting used to and after the quietus change drks dungeon play was fine again.

[Hierro]

Haha, I'll admit I'm actually one of those people!

I don't think you can make a fair judgement from reading about an experience viewed through rose-tinted lens.