Dark Knight Megathread

[FoxCh40s]

I think the most frustrating thing about Dark Knight is that its 5.0 rework actually looked pretty cool and like they could do a lot of cool things with it. But then, not only did they not do anything cool with it, they did cool things with every other tank. And it's just like... why. I really love what they did with both WAR and PLD. And while I don't like what they did with GNB, I can at least see the appeal from a surface-level monkey brain PoV. All DRK got is big damage buttons (that other tanks got too, and they either feel more earned or more impactful) and a "sure, why not" cooldown that's about as impactful as Foresight was in 3.0.

And then they gave reaper an ersatz Sole Survivor, one of my favorite skills from the olden days. This would be throwing salt into the wound if I didn't drop the job as a main back in late 4.0.

I don't doubt for a moment that they actually play their own game, but it's clear that some jobs get played more than others.

They don't play Dark Knight, Ranged physical jobs, Monk, or Healers at all.

[AziraSyuren]

They don't play Dark Knight, Ranged physical jobs, Monk, or Healers at all.

I actually think they do play healers plenty, but only play them in the context of playtesting fights. Healing is quite a bit more engaging when you don't out-gear content and are in a more coordinated group, but much of that is lost when you're above the power level the fights are designed for and have no need or ability to plan out your healing cooldowns. Dancer also more or less plays the way its supposed to, and has never received any changes that indicated a lack of developer investment. It's just boring and weak- not really the same as being poorly and neglectfully designed.

The other two ranged, however, are quite clearly not favored by the devs as much.

No disagreements on Monk either. It's pretty much always been a disaster, even at its best.

[Sacrilegion]

The sad part is, they didn't even bother to rework DRK. Instead they make a whole new job that functions how DRK should have and converted it to melee dps. SE went out of their way to kick us in the balls for even hoping for a decent DRK. I am not buying the "ran out of time" bullshit because they had 3 expansions now to do it right.