Dark Knight moving forward: Job change ideas for 6.0

[Kabooa]

Bring back the MP/Blood feedback.

Quietus -> Restores some amount of MP per enemy hit
Flood of Darkness -> Gains some amount of Blood per enemy hit

Turn Darkside into a Pseudo Resource

Darkside as a Duration Buff, where the duration is taxed when additional effects are added. Base duration of 1 / 1.

Salted Earth turned into a toggle-able AoE Damage aura. Increases Darkside's rate of depletion.
One or two new abilities focus around this concept.

Maybe: Situational deterrent for hitting 0 Darkside. AoE explosion + X duration of Pacify, as example.

New Charge Sub-type

For Actions that can be used even at 0 charge but gain a specific benefit when a charge is available.

Abyssal Drain: Gains a charge every X seconds. (30, 45, 60, whatever). When a charge is available, Abyssal Drain's MP cost is reduced to 0.
Abyssal Drain is now a Darkside skill.

Active Defense and Retaliation

Dark Mind evolves into Dark Missionary.

Dark Missionary's "button economy" relegated to a GCD cooldown, reducing incoming damage for a short duration and delivering a PBAOE weaponskill counter attack, ramping up as more hits are taken during this duration.

[Shurrikhan]

Bring back the MP/Blood feedback.

Quietus -> Restores some amount of MP per enemy hit
Flood of Darkness -> Gains some amount of Blood per enemy hit

I'm not sure resource exchange for its own sake will be worth anything, but

Turn Darkside into a Pseudo Resource

Darkside as a Duration Buff, where the duration is taxed when additional effects are added. Base duration of 1 / 1.

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New Charge Sub-type

For Actions that can be used even at 0 charge but gain a specific benefit when a charge is available.

Hell yeah. Would love to see that.

Same with the Active Defense and Retaliation bit. When I first heard the name and saw the animation for Shadow Wall, that's pretty much what I imagined -- a channeled shield that converts damage absorbed into temporary MP to spend as quickly as possible (since it'd fade quickly otherwise) after defending with Shadow Wall, where you actually hold that shadow wall animation up for it, and the skill pushes back its cooldown by a flat amount immediately and then some amount per second of use.