Dark Knight Megathread

[TouchandFeel]

They gave that to warrior. Maybe not in name. But in concept.

The life-steal/heal with attacks concept is far from unique to or the sole province of WAR, even among the tanks; for example PLD heals with Holy Spirit and Holy Circle.
Might as well say that WAR can't have Vengeance and DRK can't have Shadow Wall because PLD had been given Sentinel and so strong base % mitigation was their thing.

Besides the life-steal game-play niche wasn't originally "given to WAR", they just used to be able to cross-class Bloodbath, a lancer/melee dps ability.
So even historically it wasn't really just a "WAR thing"; and the precedence of Blood Weapon being the predominant life-steal ability in the series as a whole and it often being an ability found on the Dark Knight job is a strong enough reason to consider it having its classic effect in this game as well, especially considering the current player requests to give DRK more self-sustain.