What materia and stats I should go for on dark knight?

[Hierro]

Blood Weapon doesn't need buffed, Dark Knight as a whole in its current state doesn't need any buffs because the job is already extremely strong.

And you know what? If your primary and only concern when you play a job is to have fun, that's entirely fine. But if that is indeed the case then you have no place to be giving others advice on something that you are objectively in the wrong about. Wanna play the "I just play for fun" card? Go right ahead. But don't try to tell others what they should be doing in that case, and especially stay out of extreme and savage.

Blood Weapon needs a buff. It's not actually a 10 second buff, it's something less, and that's why people have issue landing all 5 GCDs, but none with delirium.

[Lucy_Pyre]

Blood Weapon needs a buff. It's not actually a 10 second buff, it's something less, and that's why people have issue landing all 5 GCDs, but none with delirium.

No, BW does not need a buff. Does it have a very very slightly shorter than advertised duration? Yes. Does that warrant any sort of buff in the job's current state? No.

[Awful]

Blood Weapon needs a buff. It's not actually a 10 second buff, it's something less, and that's why people have issue landing all 5 GCDs, but none with delirium.

They can just make it like Bunshin but for DRK I think that'd fix the issue.

[Lucy_Pyre]

They can just make it like Bunshin but for DRK I think that'd fix the issue.

Bunshin was was a very specific situation for Ninja, as it was required to be changed to a charge system in order to allow their burst window to work properly in the job's current state. Blood Weapon does not have this issue and, as such, is completely fine in its current state.

[jetfire117]

Bunshin was was a very specific situation for Ninja, as it was required to be changed to a charge system in order to allow their burst window to work properly in the job's current state. Blood Weapon does not have this issue and, as such, is completely fine in its current state.

All they literally need to do is put back the weapon skillspeed buff it used to have or just extend the duration but like a second?

[Lucy_Pyre]

All they literally need to do is put back the weapon skillspeed buff it used to have or just extend the duration but like a second?

They don't need to do anything at all. As I have said multiple times up to this point, Blood Weapon is perfectly fine as is, and with how powerful DRK currently is there is no justification for buffing it in any way.

[AleXwern]

They don't need to do anything at all. As I have said multiple times up to this point, Blood Weapon is perfectly fine as is, and with how powerful DRK currently is there is no justification for buffing it in any way.

Dude, BW is extremely ping reliant because the MP component is checked server side unlike pretty much every single other similar buff. It's not about buffing it, it's about making it not punish the player for some arbitrary reason.

[Lucy_Pyre]

Dude, BW is extremely ping reliant because the MP component is checked server side unlike pretty much every single other similar buff. It's not about buffing it, it's about making it not punish the player for some arbitrary reason.

It has absolutely nothing to do with ping. The "standard" GCD for DRK is 2.38, and if you aren't capable of landing 5 GCDs under Blood Weapon at that amount of SkS then your ping is so bad that that 5th GCD is going to be, by far, the least of your problems. Stop trying to create issues where there are none. If you can't land 5 under BW and you have the proper amount of SkS then you're either not keeping your GCD rolling, mistiming the weave, or have such horrific ping that you can't even play the game normally anyways.

[AleXwern]

It has absolutely nothing to do with ping. The "standard" GCD for DRK is 2.38, and if you aren't capable of landing 5 GCDs under Blood Weapon at that amount of SkS then your ping is so bad that that 5th GCD is going to be, by far, the least of your problems. Stop trying to create issues where there are none. If you can't land 5 under BW and you have the proper amount of SkS then you're either not keeping your GCD rolling, mistiming the weave, or have such horrific ping that you can't even play the game normally anyways.

The standard GCD is 2.43 although many do not use it because it's, you guessed it, ping reliant. 2.38 is main standard WAR because otherwise Upheaval starts drifting.
And yes it has everything to do with ping. The free Spillers are checked when you press the button and game sends a request to the server. With BW it's with damage calculation which is way after.
11/12s with 5 stacks doesn't make DRK more powerful or fundamentally different, it makes it less *clunky*.

[Lucy_Pyre]

The standard GCD is 2.43 although many do not use it because it's, you guessed it, ping reliant. 2.38 is main standard WAR because otherwise Upheaval starts drifting.
And yes it has everything to do with ping. The free Spillers are checked when you press the button and game sends a request to the server. With BW it's with damage calculation which is way after.
11/12s with 5 stacks doesn't make DRK more powerful or fundamentally different, it makes it less *clunky*.

No, the standard is not 2.43. The theoretical maximum DPS is 2.43 but there is one key word here, theoretical. That low speed is not optimal in many situations.