Dark Knight moving forward: Job change ideas for 6.0

[DRKoftheAzure]

You're pulling some pretty wild numbers out of nowhere.

Just casually dropping a 900 potency boost per minute on C&S, giving it a 900 potency cure for no reason, giving it charges so I'm assuming you'd be firing it off twice per minute to boot? Oh and let's give DRK a +20% damage boost to everything it does all the time.

20 second invulnerability? LOL. On top of it then losing the healing requirement?

Living Dead is so bad that even if Carve and Spit got the base potency and base MP recovery and had 1200 cure potency equivalent slapped on to, it wouldn't do much to fix it. Though it would give DRK a better flavor of tank though.

You don't like current DRK, I get it.

HUGE understatement right there.

The things you're suggesting "should" have been done however make absolutely no sense and it looks like to me that you're just slinging whatever mud you can find at DRK and then bringing in a wheelbarrow just so you can bring some more mud that isn't even there. I'm sorry but it's very hard to take these seriously. All of this is a bit like me saying "Bloodspiller could deal 2500 potency and Quietus should heal me to full and give me full MP".

Not really wrong there, but there is a huge a difference between "could" is a very different would since I was speculating at what could have been, and to be fair might as well replace "could" with "should" since I HATE the current iteration of DRK that we have right now.

DRK isn't behind in damage to the point that any of those things you're suggesting wouldn't just boost it through the roof. On top of giving it some pretty ungodly healing. On top of giving it the absolutely most broken invulnerability in the game. On top of it already being the king of personal mitigation.

Pretty sure RDM Embolden(RDM just hates other casters and faux casters as well) and MNK Brotherhood say other wise on the damage part(though this JUST DRK, just remember that PLD, NIN and literally every caster cannot be in the same group as a MNK otherwise it's a DPS loss for MNK, it's just DRK is the more prominent one that comes to mind)... Just like how SCH, DRG, BRD want to point that WAR guaranteed DCH pretty much makes them feel useless for DPS checks as bring a WAR with them is a DPS loss.

What is wrong with point blank AOEs?

If they are weaker than the other tanks PB AoEs than I will have issue with it. In fact, I'm all for giving DRK PB AoE combos(that don't suck in terms of potency).

Or FOS/FOD for that matter?

I just wish they were implemented a lot more smoothly(preferably as burst combos that you did to break up the monotony of spamming Souleater combo).

With TBN even with physical enemies DRKs mitigation is really good. In dungeon trash you've also got Abyssal Drain which is up for every trashpull that tends to range from 1000+ to 2000+ potency heal on an OGCD trigger. In raids you've got magical damage which means you've got 2 extra mitigation cooldowns to work with. LD sucks and should be changed but hardly defines DRKs survivability. He's pretty damn sturdy outside of the flawed invulnerability.

Except once you get TBN you basically either perma-shelved your other CDs unless a fight calls for it, or the fact that you spent the entire expansion doing things new players would normally do and make the healers heal you by not pressing cooldowns because you don't know the difference between Physical Damage and Magical Damage with Dark Mind.

Also quick fix for Dark Mind; bring back Dark Dance with 100% parry rate and have it upgrade into Dark Mind at the level you get Dark Mind.

EDIT: Changed some wording because it sounded a lot more oafish than I meant for it to. I'm being critical but not trying to be a D.

I don't know what you said before you edited you post as I was not awake at the time... so don't feel to bad about it...