Dark Knight Megathread

[Marxam]

They said one thing and did another, in DRK's case it seemed like they Intentionally Trolled the player base after spending that time thinking up the method.

Idk about that. The change to flood/edge of shadow from 2 secs to 1 sec means you get to double weave again. I think that was the main complaint in SB, that DRK didn't have enough double weaving ogcds in their rotation. Seriously though, this will most likely happen. Just instead of using Dark Arts you are using Edge/Flood and you will most likely pair them with ShB when its up.

This is one of the reasons why I don't like GNB. Too many forced ogcd spams and its tricky to used your defensive cds in-between them to react to any given situation. DRK is getting dangerously close to that and I'm not too impressed about it.

[ArthurATDayne]

Idk about that. The change to flood/edge of shadow from 2 secs to 1 sec means you get to double weave again. I think that was the main complaint in SB, that DRK didn't have enough double weaving ogcds in their rotation. Seriously though, this will most likely happen. Just instead of using Dark Arts you are using Edge/Flood and you will most likely pair them with ShB when its up.

This is one of the reasons why I don't like GNB. Too many forced ogcd spams and its tricky to used your defensive cds in-between them to react to any given situation. DRK is getting dangerously close to that and I'm not too impressed about it.

I'm not too worried about the Edge/Flood change from 2s to 1s because DRK only has so much Mana available to spam those 3000 Mana oGCDs before going empty. At present it seems 10000 Mana is still the max capacity for DRK and Mana sustain isn't enough to go too nuts.

I also dislike GNB but for these specific reasons: The oGCD skills are fine by themselves but that Gnashing Fang Combo + Continuation is a lot of goddamn button work to do enough DPS not to fall behind vs other tanks. The damage is so spread out over too many skills and feels like too much work for little reward to me.

In fact, one of the reasons I stopped playing GNB on this Character is because I ran out of spots on my 2 Hotbars where I was comfortable enough keybinding to my Mechanical Keyboard and 12+ Button MMO mouse. The new changes to Gnashing Fang Combo to be 1 Button frees up some spots at least so I may go back to GNB without feeling like I'm missing split second keybind reaction.

Dark Knight, despite have a lot of oGCD, doesn't force me into a Committed Do or Lose Like A Chump specific DPS single target or multi target combo like say GNB's Gnashing Fang + Continuation Combo or PLD's Requiescat Holy Spirit/Circle + Confiteor Combo so I find DRK feels more free and relaxing to play.

Just 1-2-3 Soul Eater/ 5-6 AOE Mana & Blood Sustain and oGCD as needed. Delirium 3 stacks on generous duration goes further in making this more laidback for me.