Dark Knight where is my Identiy

[Anahlise_Auhn_Giinslai]

Now I shall try this again cause we need a direction so we don’t miss

The question we need answered are.
1. What is a drk?
2. How are they unique or how can we make them unique?
3. What do we want to fix so they can feel like the class they should be?

These are some of the ingredients to make the perfect drk. From what I got so far from you all.

Now I shall spit ball a few idea in my head cannon in hope we can trim the fat of this convo.

I’m gonna go with this one cause I thought hard on it for years and have multiple concepts

Living Dead
1. The small fix
Slap a healing buff on it and call it a day
Bandage fix but it’s something and LD isn’t bad but it isn’t good this is the problem we have with it. Yes we have a long invun time but what does it matter if I die when it’s over. Prolonged death isnt a good death

2. Get rid of invuns
It’s an option that I’m sure SE might take into consideration but doesn’t mean we would agree on it

3. Have during LD all damage is converted in to healing and all healing dmg
One of my favorite but might not be the best option for drk it might turn out like SuperB all over again

4. When waking dead expires instead of death sap all you mp and convert it into hp 100% = a maximum of 100k (just a estimate not gospel)
Last one that I think is perfect drk is all about sacrifice and this I think is bigger then death and unique to the class like Frey taking the bow for you and now you have to fight to replenish mp

This is a response to the ones stating about LD since we can only post but so much it was one of my idea I have more another with TBN etc but we need to decide each skill that we keep and the ones we don’t but in a practical was that doesn’t kill the devs

what is a Dark Knight? / to me, Dark Knight is a "physical melee Damager-tank that can use dark magic and blood magic." but, most of Dark Knights "magic" was removed, and made into what it is now. 3.x Dark Knight was best Dark Knight, and we need Dark Knight to go back in that direction, but as a different person said, "bringing back 3.x Dark Knight" does not mean copy-and-paste old Dark Knight. we need to take what 3.x Dark Knight was and "remaster" it into a new form that is like, but not is, the original Dark Knight.

How is Dark Knight unique? / no, no.. how "was" Dark Knight unique.
Dark Knight was a physical melee Damager-tank that could also use instant-cast Dark and Blood magic.
this is what Dark Knight should return to. Dark Knight should have physical GCDs and oGCD Dark and Blood magic. physical attacks and weave instant-cast magic between physical attacks. also, double weave. Dark Knight should have a lot of double weave, giving it a "fast" feeling, sort of like weaving both a oGCD physical attack, edge of shadow for this example, and either a Dark or Blood magic spell, between the GCDs.

and GCD should have variety. did you know that Dark Knight used to have two 1-2-3 combos, and one 1-2-3 Combo even had 2 different pick-one 3's to end the combo? Dark Knight needs to have this back, as well. GCD options, not just one damn straight-forward 1-2-3 combo.

What do we want to fix so they can feel like the class they should be? / the class that Dark Knight should be, is its original 3.x "identity", and Dark Knight should be half and half. combine 3.x Dark Knight things, bring back what we lost, and combine that with what current Dark Knight has. while, by "bring back what we lost", again.. not copy-and-paste. old skills that we lost should be remastered, all of 3.x Dark Knight should be remastered, into a similar, but new, form that can combine with current Dark Knight.

this is just a quick summary, though. I have a huge "re-Inventing Dark Knight" pet project that goes neck deep into re-Inventing and re-Designing Dark Knight in a way that is 3.x combined with current, in a way that I would like to believe would work.