Dark Knight Megathread

[Shin96]

I phrased that poorly. By removal of Dark Arts I mean the removal of 5.0 Dark Arts in exchange for something vastly superior. I find it so excrutianingly mundane, jesus christ all of this feels like a bad joke to me. It's like some fever dream. I expected they'd fix something at least! Bloodspiller spam is gone but the job still looks boring af.

I'm inclined to vote with my wallet, it's September and I still haven't pre-ordered Endwalker, not that there will be any difference for SE considering all the newbies. Anyway, I digress. I think it's time for me to make a choice, they clearly have no respect for tanks at all so.. unless Reaper is worth playing. In the end all of this was kinda predictable I mean? Shadowbringers killed tanking and that expansion is regarded as one of the best. Make of it what you will.

[KatsuraJun]

I phrased that poorly. By removal of Dark Arts I mean the removal of 5.0 Dark Arts in exchange for something vastly superior. I find it so excrutianingly mundane, jesus christ all of this feels like a bad joke to me. It's like some fever dream. I expected they'd fix something at least! Bloodspiller spam is gone but the job still looks boring af.

well that's the thing

DRK has always been about resource management all the way since its release in HW when you get down to it, basically. when you take that away (dark arts), you are left with nothing, which is kinda the situation we are in now. they would have had to come up with an entirely new direction to take the job. and honestly? I'm pretty sure that would have still been controversial, like a less extreme bowmage bard situation.

that's why I didn't want it to fundamentally change so much back in SB going into SHB. it was fine the way it was, imo. like you said, first world clear for UCOB? played DRK simply because it was fun, despite being the weakest tank at the time by a small margin. but people memed DA to death, so it is what it is.

[Beddict]

Bloodspiller spam is gone but the job still looks boring af.

Not that we know of, unless I missed something. The only thing I heard during the Live Letter is that Delirium is going down to a 60s recast. Assuming they keep it similar to Inner Release (and they probably will since the dev team doesn't give a shit about DRK), Delirium will go from being "spam five Bloodspillers" to "spam three Bloodspillers". Except WAR got that new Fellest Cleave bullshit to cap off Inner Release while DRK was given the middle finger because of course it was. Who knows, maybe Delirium was changed to not suck, but I got zero hopes and expectations based off what they presented.