Dark Knight Megathread

[Aword3213]

I'm just about no one as well, but I've been playing the game since about 2.4 and am willing to listen. If you don't want to agree DRK and WAR are clones, then perhaps you should take a look at the job design and determine it from there - starting with how they use their gauge. DRK/WAR actually do the same thing - Big Hit or Big AoE at 50 Gauge, only difference being that WAR can Crit-DH as you said before in your previous post in that argument while DRK has to use a clone that does damage automatically like a DoT for the duration. Secondly, Delirium/Inner Release. Both do the same thing in form and function, aside from DRK recovering their primary resource: MP.

The problem lies with how 'rewarding' actions are done for good play as the job: They reward the same way, in the same design. DRK having fewer buttons than WAR does not help this because it makes it look quite similar to it in terms of design, outside of having two resources to take care of. The real differences only matter with how they mitigate, as well as how they recover from big hits, which is a good thing. People want different so as not to get too much of the same in two jobs. Would you order a turkey sandwich with chipotle sauce and a meatball sandwich, only for the meatball sandwich to have turkey balls and tomato sauce? It's like that. They taste only very slightly different, but very much the same at a base level. That's why I'm trying to think of good ways to actually change DRK's current kit since we don't have the information for DRK in Endwalker outside of previews - so you don't get too similar tastes with jobs and actually feel like they're unique in their own way at level cap.

The problem is, I don't think they are anyway similar. Whenever I doing Savage content, I prefer to play as GNB, PLD and WAR. I did try running contents as DRK, but I just didn't like the play style. I still don't. I still join PF as DRK from time to time for the sake of learning all jobs within the role of tank. However, whenever I want to truly enjoy tanking, I will never play DRK because I don't want to manage both Blood Gauge and MP. From my experience alone DRK and WAR are nothing similar.

As for the food comparison.. well. For give my lack of imagination and I think my examples will be silly, but to me DRK is like roasted Turkey Sandwich while WAR is like pan-fried Meatball Sandwich. They are all sandwiches with meat.The similarity ends there
I don't agree they are similar nor do they play like clones, but that doesn't not mean I'm against your demand for changes. Just because I disagree with you at certain point doesn't mean I'm dismissing the need for change. The reason I ask for DRK changes are not because it's similar to WAR, but the lack of changes in the incoming EW expac compared to other tanks. I don't think we're necessarily at odd here. We both want the same thing. We just have different reasons.

Though it seems some people here tend to make enemy out of me by calling me ignorant. Well, I can simply adapt to other jobs. DRK can burn now for all I care. This kind of attitude surely helps.