Dark Knight Megathread

[Oizen]

I'm not really sure how they can focus on darkside when its basically cosmetic. When are you NOT in darkside, the benefit it gives is so small and the effort it takes to upkeep is nonexistant.
If the game let me, I'd actually disable the dark side hud entirely. You don't need it, who cares about living shadow duration that thing is going to do whatever it wants,
the most useful thing about it is when the little crest glows yellow for a a successful TBN absorb, but even then the attacks themselves get highlighted so....

[Kreyd]

There is nothing I can say about DRK that hasn't been said multiple times by now.
But if this is what we will get until 7.0...fine. There is RPR, there is PLD. I'm certain enough people will reroll to these jobs so SE will see that something is wrong.
The last stralm I'm clinging to is that this is the last time they'll pull this off with DRK.

[ArthurATDayne]

We're about 3 weeks away from Endwalker going live.

If Dark Knight at least gets Blood Weapon updated to 5 Stacks per 60s CD and some additional Self-Healing Sustain like say Abyssal Drain gets bare minimum 1000-1200 Potency Heal per use so it's viable against 1 target AND big mob I think a lot of DRK players would be pretty happy.

It would at least be inline with all the other Tank Improvements/Quality of Life updates with PLD Requiescat & WAR Inner Rage getting Stacks on 60s CD Phase/Burst skills, increased Self-Healing Sustain of some sort using Short CD Mitigation or Rotation.

This isn't just related to Tank classes but I'm hoping in the near future we are able to utilize all Skills & Traits at any Synced Level at appropriate Synced Stats i.e. The Blackest Night at level 50, Bloodspiller/Quietus spam, 2 AOE combo Mana/Blood regen :P

[MagiusNecros]

DRK should get a big heal of some sort. Clemency(1200 pot), Equil(1200 Pot), Aurora(1200 pot over 18 seconds) are all great heals on the others. Abyssal requires 6 mobs to get to 1200 pot but can get more in big wall to wall pulls. It was better when it costed MP since it could actually be worth using multiple times in succession. Anything less and it's automatically worse.

And the other aforementioned 3 can still get their full heal in any fight. DRK cannot. DRK requires AoE fights. With at least 6 targets.

[Jakulo]

They can easily buff self-healing by adding the buffed effect of sole survivor to abyssal drain. Maybe a little weaker, 25% on kill and 15% on expiration, and without the mp restore. Or just reduce the cd to 30s cause it's definitely not worth being on 60s.

[shao32]

If we didn't scream and shout on forums about dark arts spam & lack of raid utility back in Stormblood, DRK wouldn't be what it is today... So I'll agree to disagree with you on that front.

while i personally take SB DRK by a mile compared to current hollow DRK any feedback taked around almost 2 years and they just literally did what they want at the end without taking real consideration on what we asked so yeah expect nothing and be surprised if we got even small adjustments on blood weapon.

[Shurrikhan]

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Abyssal Drain
Level 56 | Ability | 60s Recast

Deal unaspected damage with a potency of 200 to your target and all enemies near it, and inflicts your primary target with Blood Price for 9 seconds.
Additional Effect: Restores HP
Cure Potency: 300

Blood Price: Heals the Dark Knight for each weaponskill or spell they land against the target.
Cure Potency: 300

At that point it'd be even as a burst heal at 4 targets, improved from 6, and over time even at a single target (300 direct + 3 hits' worth at 300 each for a total of 1200).

A second charge, since it'd actually include gameplay-affecting capacities, would also be appreciable as a trait.

Edit: You could also make it even more external-friendly, by having Blood Price cause the enemies' attacks to heal their victim for 300 potency each. (Imagine that before a Goobie Rush... It's just barely situational enough not to necessitate it's badly balanced down.)

[Baxcel]

Abyssal Drain
Level 56 | Ability | 60s Recast

Deal unaspected damage with a potency of 200 to your target and all enemies near it, and inflicts your primary target with Blood Price for 9 seconds.
Additional Effect: Restores HP
Cure Potency: 300

Blood Price: Heals the Dark Knight for each weaponskill or spell they land against the target.
Cure Potency: 300

At that point it'd be even as a burst heal at 4 targets, improved from 6, and over time even at a single target (300 direct + 3 hits' worth at 300 each for a total of 1200).

A second charge, since it'd actually include gameplay-affecting capacities, would also be appreciable as a trait.

Edit: You could also make it even more external-friendly, by having Blood Price cause the enemies' attacks to heal their victim for 300 potency each. (Imagine that before a Goobie Rush... It's just barely situational enough not to necessitate it's badly balanced down.)

Would honestly just prefer they return the StB version back to us.. instant cast with no cooldown. It made for unsynced runs and large synced pulls with more healing then just spamming our normal AoE. An with Unleashed giving MP now it could easily be a solo sustain combo to refill your hp and mp between the two .. tho it wouldn't help with Living Dead still..

[Lyth]

That version of Abyssal Drain still exists in the game. It's called Holy Circle now. Because holy magic specializes in lifesteal, naturally.

[Baxcel]

That version of Abyssal Drain still exists in the game. It's called Holy Circle now. Because holy magic specializes in lifesteal, naturally.

Indeed and Warriors are the lifesteal/regen tank like they should be.. /s

I said it before they deleted the posts from the leaks.. Bloodwhetting should of been a DRK skill..