Dark Knight where is my Identiy

[Anahlise_Auhn_Giinslai]

Honestly I thought this thread was dead but here we are, thank you

I like the way you think not joking weaving on drk feels great and i love edge and flood - though I hate floods animations- I still love the feeling and yeah most of drk's magic was removed. I would love to hear your idea on how to bring back the old ways into a better light I'm sure we can do it

I wasn't stating that drk never had an identity, I just want us to be on the same page. We all see drk in a different light so I just wanted to be clear on what we want. Also yes I'm am aware of SS PS combo One of the best looking combos, scourge, Passage of arms (bubble party), deaths dance when reprisal was a proc, when salted earth didnt hurt bosses or and enemy that was in the air. I've played drk since HW i remember. I do wish for more buttons the 1-2-3 combo does get stale and seeing HS hurts me deeply but this is a one I would be satisfied if they just brought back PS as a combo finisher and make it give you something like mp/shield/dmg/or mit etc or do the SB machinist treatment and when heated was earned. With SE simplifying everything asking for two full combos seems to me like an improbability.

I would love to see more spells on drk

3.x was a good Drk more fine tuned and the gauge was the best in the game

I would like the idea of DA being used on other things not just a free Edge or flood.

Yes! Haft and haft, I feel like that was a core of drk as for could 3.x drk fix this i would have to brainstorm on that one but really I would love to read more. If you got a doc please let me know. As for me I haven't written it out but i have many ideas as well, but I wanted to see what everyone who plays drk feels before i make a concrete decision.

I acknowledge your thanks. =w=; some person had to come around poking the threads and making some noise, I was happy to be that instigator.

1, on weave / a lot of people liked old Dark Knight for its "speed".. and FFXIV has two kinds of speed... Monk GCD speed, and weave "illusion of speed".
I feel like the best thing for Dark Knight is the illusion of speed, that comes from weaving oGCDs between GCDs. but Dark Knight's current weave is dull and redundant... just Edge/Flood of Darkness/Shadow spam and the occasional big-CD oGCD.
to summarize my ideas, four words: various oGCDs, weave rotation. / GCD rotations and CD rotations exist, why not a weave rotation?

2, "bring back the old ways into a better light" / I literally have a more-than-20,000 characters(I forgot the word count) head-canon pet project for Dark Knight, that I call "Re-inventing Dark Knight: Blood Magic, Blood Weaving, and the Blood Sigil", where-in I have taken every action that Dark Knight has ever had, HW, SB, PvP-redisgned-into-PvE, and ShB, re-designed and remastered the old, tweaked the current, and completely over-haul re-designed Dark Knight, based off of taking its various versions and combining all of it, and then taking all of that and re-designing it to fit my Dark Knight head-canon.

3, on differing opinions / sadly, same issue as bard. I have even seen a fairly big "What is Bard?" thread, and it sad that it even needs to be questioned. Dark Knight has this same issue, a literal identity and existential crisis, and when asked "what is Dark Knight?", not all Dark Knights say the same thing. not even all dark knights want change and improvement, only a lot of us want change and improvement. but here-in lays the issue... we all want "change", there is little agreement on the what and how of this change.
different people see Dark Knight in different ways, and at this point, Dark Knight even has different fan "factions/groups", that split all of us up and divide us, based on what we want Dark Knight to be and/or think that Dark Knight is... I have no idea how to resolve that conundrum.

4, more spells on Dark Knight / I agree with that, and even went so far as to remaster Dark Knight's old deleted spell actions, and then even created some of my own actions and/or spell-actions, out of my own head-canon of Dark Knight.

5, about Dark Arts / go check out the Dark Arts-focused thread "Should Dark Arts Come Back in 6.0? If so, What Should the Skill Do?"
old Dark Arts is being debated to death.

6, whether or not I have a Doc / I do, but my pet project "re-inventing Dark Knight" is too amazing and high-quality "for FFXIV to handle". I would need to(be forced to?) dumb down at least half the thing, down to FFXIV level of dumb and simple, to make it "FFXIV-friendly and more compatible", unless I could convince the dev team of other-wise. And I will do that if I have to, I mean the dumb-down, as I did at least create my own ideas and remaster old actions to be theoretically completely compatible with FFXIV... I just.. am a complex woman, and so are my ideas, but FFXIV has been made dumb and simple, so my "not compatible" concern is being blown off and rejected over "too complex".