Improving Dark Knight: A Wishlist of Adjustments

[Isan_Furederikku]

I am a long-time Dark Knight player that is disappointed with what Dark Knight is shaping up to be in Endwalker, ESPECIALLY in comparison to other tanks. Every other tank recieved insane, engaging and very fun self-sustain buffs / changes in Endwalker. I have gone through the first Endwalker dungeon as every tank and Dark Knight, by far, had the hardest time.

TLDR: This comparable lack of self-sustain as well as fun factor are what I seek to remedy.

NOTE: I love Endwalker and most of the class adjustments therein; do not take my ideas for changes as a personal attack against you or the game.

Enhanced Dark Magic:
• Edge of Shadow gains a cure potency of 200
• Flood of Shadow gains a cure potency of 75 for every enemy hit
• Shadowbringer would have a cure potency of 100 for every enemy hit and would also extend Darkside by 15 seconds.

Oblation: cooldown: 60s > 45s

Enhanced Living Shadow:
• When summoned it will immediately use an Oblation on the Dark Knight that summoned him [This falls in line with Living Shadow learning the skills as we do i.e. it gaining Shadowbringer when we do]
• When it uses Abyssal Drain it heals the Dark Knight

Carve and Spit / Abyssal Drain
• Remove the shared cooldown added in Endwalker
• Cooldown: 60s > 30s [ALL other tanks off gcd attacks are on 30s cooldown not 60s]

Blood Gauge
• Successfully landing Quietus or Bloodspiller will lower the recast time of Shadowbringer by 5s
• [I have always found the Blood system and Delerium incredibly boring. It feels like watered-down Warrior. I would like to see this whole system scraped and reworked but I still offered a change I would like to see above.]

Salted Earth
• Radius 5y > 8y
• [I also would love to see Salted Earth and Salt and Darkness animations reworked. They look very weak and boring to me.]

Dark Missionary
• additional effect: creates a barrier that absorbs damage equalling 10% of targets max HP. Grants Dark Arts if any barrier is completely absorbed.

Dark Mind
• additional effect: reduces physical damage taken by 10%
• cooldown 60s > 90s

If you guys agree with Dark Knights getting some nice changes and buffs, please speak up. It is the only way we have even a chance of being heard! Thank you.

[Ignimortis]

We already generate enough Darkside to supply a second theoretical DRK indefinitely.
I'd rather have Shadowbringer be a non-CD GCD that costs 15 seconds of Darkside to use, for example, and maybe had a pot 600 cure on it, or a, say, 1k MP restore.

[Shurrikhan]

We already generate enough Darkside to supply a second theoretical DRK indefinitely.

This. If Darkside's going to take up a gauge, it should actually be worth keeping on one's screen. (Heck, I hide in my bottom-right corner where it doesn't obstruct my view since Dark Arts procs are all I'd need it for, and the ping sound from filling/proccing Dark Arts is plenty audible already.)

[Yubie]

TBN- Remove MP cost at level 82 via trait
Living Dead- redesigned and renamed to Borrowed Time- Now pauses most incoming damage taken for 7 seconds. At the end of the duration, all the damage you would of taken is now taken as a DoT on yourself over 14 seconds.
Oblation- now replaces Dark Mind, gaining its 20% reduced magic damage reduction in addition to its current effects.

Carve and spit + Abyssal Drain- cooldown reduced to 30 seconds, potency reduced to 250 and 90
Abyssal Drain- No longer has a cure potency
Blood Weapon- duration increased to 30 seconds, now provides 5 stacks of use.
Shadowbringer now only has 1 charge. Each time you cast Bloodspiller or Quietus, the cooldown is reduced by 20 seconds.


Slash- now grants a barrier equal to a 150 heal potency
Syphon strike- now grants a 200 heal potency, no longer grants MP
Soul Eater- no longer grants a heal potency. Instead grants you Consumption, reducing your damage taken by 5% for 8 seconds.

Unleash now grants a barrier equal to a 40 heal potency per enemy hit.
Stalwart Soul- now grants a 50 heal potency, per enemy hit
Stalwart Soul- Now learned at 42 down from 72

Enhancement Unmend- Additional effect- After using plunge your next Unmend generates 10 Blood gauge

[Kalaam]

Ok and how do we regen MP now ? xD

[Mekhana]

There's a lot of Magic dmg in the new raid. Might want to keep Dark Mind even if it's not perfect.

[Danelo]

There's a lot of Magic dmg in the new raid. Might want to keep Dark Mind even if it's not perfect.

I hear you but damage specific mitigations need to go. What other tank has a mitigation that is not useful in a given situation besides DRK with dm? None. I’ve benefited from having dark mind as is in shb but even I would still rather go to a 15% all damage reduction instead of the current.

[Kalaam]

At last Dark Knight's niche is fulfilled.

[Comrade_uri]

Isn’t GNB’s raid wide a magic def only buff?

[Yubie]

Ok and how do we regen MP now ? xD

did you not see i said carve and spit/abyssal drain a 30 second cd?