Dark Knight where is my Identiy

[Siimodo]

The currently Dark does not feel like it has an identity. Many of the player base feel like it is a mimic of Warrior. We would like our own identity. There are two DPS designs in the game, Direct Damage and Damage over time. A damage over time tanking style is doable in the current meta. My suggestions for this style of tanking are as follows.
Abilities

Hard Slash Lv.1 Weaponskill Instant 2.5s 3y 0y
Delivers an attack with a potency of 200.

Syphon Strike Lv. 2 Weaponskill Instant 2.5s 3y 0y
Delivers an attack with a potency of 100.
Combo Action: Hard Slash
Combo Potency: 300
Combo Bonus: Restores MP
Armor of Shadow Bonus: +20% MP

Souleater Lv. 26 Weaponskill Instant 2.5s 3y 0y
Delivers an attack with a potency of 100.
Combo Action: Syphon Strike
Combo Potency: 400
Combo Bonus: Restores own HP
Cure Potency: 300
Combo Bonus: Increases Blood Gauge by 20

Flood of Darkness (Job Quest) Lv. 30. Ability Instant 2s 3000MP 10y 10y.
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 200 to all enemies in a straight line before you.
Additional Effect: Corruption
Damage over time: Potency: 50
Bonus Effect: Stacks 5 times
Duration: 21s
Additional Effect: Grants Darkside, increasing damage dealt by 10%
Duration: 30s
Extends Darkside duration by 30s to a maximum of 60s.
Shares a recast timer with Edge of Darkness.

Edge of Darkness (Job Quest) Lv .40 Ability Instant 2s 3000MP 3y 0y
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 280.
Additional Effect: Corruption
Damage over time: Potency: 70
Bonus Effect: Stacks 5 times
Duration: 21s
Additional Effect: Grants Darkside, increasing damage dealt by 10%
Duration: 30s
Extends Darkside duration by 30s to a maximum of 60s.
Shares a recast timer with Flood of Darkness.

Living Dead Lv. 50. Ability Instant 300s - 0y 0y
Grants the effect of Living Dead. When HP is reduced to 0 while under the effects of Living Dead, instead of becoming KO’d, your status will change to Walking Dead. While under the effect of Walking Dead, most attacks will not lower your HP below 1. If, before the Walking Dead timer runs out, HP is 100% restored, the effect will fade if 100%. If 100% is not restored, you will be KO’d.
Walking Dead Duration: 10s
Combo Action: Armor of Shadows
Combo Effect: Reduces HP restored by 50%

[Siimodo]

Salted Earth Lv. 52. Ability Instant 35s - 15y 5y
Creates a patch of salted earth, dealing unaspected damage with a potency of 60 to any enemies who enter.
Duration: 15s
Additional Effect: Standing in salted earth grants Armor of Shadows.
Duration: 21s

Abyssal Drain Lv. 56 Ability 1.5s Channel / OGC 2.5s 2000 MP 15y 5y
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 200 to target.
Additional Effect: Restores own HP
Cure Potency: 100
Combo Action: Armor of Shadows
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 400 to target.
Combo Cure Potency: 200
Combo Effect: Armor of Shadows enhances Abyssal Drain to AoE

Stalwart Soul Lv. 58 Ability Instant 2.5s - 0y 5y
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 100 to all nearby enemies.
Combo Action: Unleash
Combo Potency: 160
Armor of Shadow Bonus: +20% MP

Carve and Spit (Job Quest) Lv. 60 Ability Instant 60s 3y 0y
Delivers a threefold attack with a potency of 450.
Additional Effect: Restores MP
Additional Effect: Devour
Devour Bonus: Increases the potency of Carve and Spit by 100 per Corruption consumed.

Bloodspiller Lv. 62 Weaponskill Instant 2.5s 3y 0y
Delivers an attack with a potency of 480.
Additional Effect: Corruption
Damage over time: Potency: 120
Bonus Effect: Stacks 5 times
Duration: 21s
Blood Gauge Cost: 50

Quietus Lv. 64 Weaponskill Instant 2.5s 0y 5y
Delivers an attack with a potency of 155.
Additional Effect: Corruption
Damage over time: Potency: 55
Bonus Effect: Stacks 5 times
Duration: 21s
Blood Gauge Cost: 50

Flood of Shadow Lv. 74. Ability Instant 2s 3000MP 10y 10y.
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 240 to all enemies in a straight line before you.
Additional Effect: Corruption
Damage over time: Potency: 60
Bonus Effect: Stacks 5 times
Duration: 21s
Additional Effect: Grants Darkside, increasing damage dealt by 10%
Duration: 30s
Extends Darkside duration by 30s to a maximum of 60s.
Shares a recast timer with Edge of Darkness.

Edge of Shadow Lv. 74. Ability Instant 2s 3000MP 3y 0y
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 400.
Additional Effect: Corruption
Damage over time: Potency: 100
Bonus Effect: Stacks 5 times
Duration: 21s
Additional Effect: Grants Darkside, increasing damage dealt by 10%
Duration: 30s
Extends Darkside duration by 30s to a maximum of 60s.
Shares a recast timer with Flood of Darkness.

Traits

Soul of Corruption
Lv. 50
Flood and Edge abilities now grant Corruption.

Dead Earth
Lv. 56
Salted Earth now grants Armor of Shadows.

Dark Enhancement
Level 72
Stalwart Soul now restores MP and grants 20 Blood gauge.

Darkening Shadows
Level 82
Armor of Shadows now increases Combo bonuses of skills by +20%.

[Derio]

PLD and GNB are the dot tank jobs. WAR and DRK are direct damage.

I have faith that the devs will use 80-90 to redefine the identity of WAR and DRK.

[Siimodo]

PLD and GNB both have a single dot in their rotation. The core the PLD build is a combo of direct damage and magic damage. The core of the GNB is fast paced direct damage. The core of WAR is intervals of burst damage with no pure sustain support in the downtime window. DRK mimics that setup, and its single DOT does not offer overall sustain support. SMN is primarily a DOT DPS class with Direct damage support skills and burst windows built around summoning monster. My suggestion would be a structure along those lines but for tanking. The build would be based around maintaining DOT stacks. Reapplying the DOT refreshes that entire stack. Having a summons that can produce the dots as well and then have its own burst window of consuming the DOTS or giving the player the right to choose when to explode the DOTS would make the shadow more interactive.

[shao32]

PLD is the only dot tank right now since is the only tank that manage a dot wich is goring blade and try to keep it up all the time (circle of scor is just an oGCD more), GNB is just 2 dots that are only used on no mercy bcs skill recast so there is no diference to like salted earth so basically all tanks are direct damage except PLD.

I have no faith on SE will redefine WAR and DRK identity only with the 80-90 lvls when DRK need changes on his entire kit to build a gameplay identity again, as long as en entire blood system and delirium remain at is now it would affect negatively the job identity with WAR.

[AC9Breaker]

Dark Knight is fine.

[ArianeEwah]

Dark Knight is fine.

"No, it's not your opinion. You're just wrong." - probably Einstein or something. /s

No, seriously. I don't how a copy-pasted job from WAR - which is already bland - with some semi-magick Shinten shenanigans can even be considered "fine"?! Don't encourage the devs to repeat such abominations!

[Hierro]

Never forget what they took from you.

[shao32]

more like Dark Warrior is fine since is a perfectly funcional job, outside of his viability the job is on his worst state gameplay identity wise and needs help.

[Shin96]

Dark Knight is fine.

That would be true if... it wasn't a fast-paced, hectic class with MP resource management. There once was a job with these aspects and it was called HW DRK.

Our current Dark Knight iteration is balanced, indeed. But it lacks essence and style. What used to be its own weight in this game was exchanged for a Warrior knockoff with an inferior Inner Release window, aka. Delirium. Bloodspiller and Quietus were never intended to be used in the same fashion as Fell Cleave and Decimate. Edge of Shadow and Flood of Shadow are also boring to use. Living Shadow is a glorified DoT with no interaction, a lazy attempt to downplay the misshandling of 5.0 DRK. Players were frustrated with Dark Arts back in 4.0, however I have never seen or heard that anyone wanted DRK to be like Warrior. Not even once.

Enjoying its current iteration is fine. Opinions differ but I've been playing this rework roughly since the start of ShB and god I have never been this bored. This job just screams lazy to me, like the developers think I'm so dumb and brainless I can't even manage a DoT. Just because the DRK threads are silent as of late doesn't mean we stopped having faith in a rework. Everyone has a favourite job/class in this game and for me it's DRK. So yes, this is a big deal to me and I refuse to see the logic in having a rip-off when Warrior is just as viable.