Dark Knight Megathread

[Jakulo]

What monk got in EW was what I thought was going to happen to drk after the rework.

I liked the rework and believed it was for the better even if it’s bare bones. The gameplay is much more smooth (not you blood weapon) compared to SB and laid the perfect foundation to build back up with the new darkside, blood, and mp.

But the devs did nothing. There is nothing to compensate for the loss of dark arts beside just having ogcds to press and it’s repeating the same issue that caused the rework in the first place. A complete lack of direction for the job besides just adding more. People liked dark arts? Let’s add dark arts to everything and increase mp generation! Drk got lots of ogcds? Here have three more and an extra button for you shitty defense when everyone else gets an upgrade!

I get that it’s a tank and can’t have complicated job mechanics, but you can at least be a little creative instead of copy and pasting things straight from another job in the same category. And not to mention giving our old mechanics to newer jobs but done right.

Some parts in me want to believe that this is all done on purpose just so they can rework it again but that is yet to be seen. If ast can get reworked two expansion in a row I don’t see why drk can’t.

[Shin96]

I get that it’s a tank and can’t have complicated job mechanics, but you can at least be a little creative instead of copy and pasting things straight from another job in the same category. And not to mention giving our old mechanics to newer jobs but done right.

Or at least attempt to create the illusion people are receiving something better on the other end.

Tanks can have "complicated" mechanics. Not when your average player fails on CT or WoD. I guess it really is convenient for these developers since they don't play tanks. Incredibly selfish of them not to hire developers that know how to make tanks and healers unique.

[Marxam]

If ast can get reworked two expansion in a row I don’t see why drk can’t.

Well DRK had been reworked in every expansion since HW. EW is the first expansion where they actually stuck to something that the prior expansion did and added to it. I think the issue might be that DRK, by the numbers, is serviceable and just as good as any other tanks in ex/sav.

It also doesn't help that its just not that fun imo. If I wanted to play a job where I have busy burst windows I'll play a DPS. I tank because I want the freedom between gcds to decide how to use my defensive cds, not be forced into shadow/ogcd spams.