Dark Knight Megathread

[KatsuraJun]

It still is horrendous. As a tank out of all jobs with boring and lazy animations is nothing but disappointing after many people complained about DRK. I was hoping for the Dark Arts 5.0 removal, it seems however they learned nothing and just expanded on what was already a pretty terrible job in its current iteration.

removing dark arts is exactly why DRK is the way it is now. they didn't learn nothing. they listened to exactly what people asked for back in SB and are sticking to it.

it's not a coincidence that all interplay between blood and mana is gone. it's not a coincidence that resource management has become simplified. SB dark arts was the lynchpin holding these gameplay systems together - it was essentially a 0 cooldown way to manipulate your mana to whatever number you needed it to be for your upcoming cooldowns or mechanics. without it, all these systems fell apart and were naturally excised from the game as a result.

people asked for this and that's why we have this.
and, enough people are happy with it now that it's not going to change - at least for the foreseeable future.