Dark Knight Megathread

[Archwizard]

I wish I could expect a full rework to DRK's mitigation and sustain on Tuesday, but more likely we're going to see a few small tweaks like this, and some vague mentions in the next Live Letter of a rework... to come in 6.1.

Wow, not even the small tweaks.

[Duskane]

playing it safe for savage i guess
atleast i can sit back and watch PLD thread blow up

[Agner]

Living Dead

This ability has survived since the start of Heavensward. In about 5 months, Living Dead will have been around for seven whole years. I'd bet an easy $100 this ability stays for the rest of this expansion and probably onward. D;

[RyuDragnier]

playing it safe for savage i guess
atleast i can sit back and watch PLD thread blow up

I'm hoping that they're waiting to see the data from Savage clears before they do more changes...but I know that's a futile hope.

[Archwizard]

This ability has survived since the start of Heavensward. In about 5 months, Living Dead will have been around for seven whole years. I'd bet an easy $100 this ability stays for the rest of this expansion and probably onward. D;

My thinking is this may be the first opportunity in a long while where LD's actually being seriously examined, considering that the damage output this expansion (meant to take advantage of the new "active" mitigation style of timing a block in the first few seconds) means TBN itself isn't able to do the job of three other mitigation skills on its own anymore like it has been since its introduction, so people are actually seeing LD's deficit outside of raids.

With a community-wide decrying of DRKs feeling left in the dust by the changes that came to other tanks, being significantly harder to heal than other tanks, the introduction of a new healer they're likely watching like hawks (who cannot pull a DRK out of WD without a surplus of resources that were likely spent keeping them out of LD), etc... this is prime time to actually call attention to LD's failings, rather than just tossing it onto the pile of wishlisting for an "otherwise okay" job.

[WhyAmIHere]

I expected nothing and I'm still disappointed.

honestly i'm glad nothing changed. potency-wise at least.
but the invuln bug being fixed is good..

[MagiusNecros]

This ability has survived since the start of Heavensward. In about 5 months, Living Dead will have been around for seven whole years. I'd bet an easy $100 this ability stays for the rest of this expansion and probably onward. D;

You don't understand. Living Dead is a 20 second invuln. /s

I think the devs are stuck in their ways. It won't change.

Not with Enhanced Unmend and the CnS/AD shared recast malarkey.

[Kitkat]

Yeah, really not a fan of CnS/AD sharing recast at all. I get Drk dmg output is up there right now, but their self heal is a joke compared to other tanks entirely.

[Archwizard]

So if I may ask, aside from the fact that AD is part of the DRK's sustain, why is the cry more for separating C&S from AD instead of having C&S also heal, since AD for its part at least restores MP?

I mean don't get me wrong, if they're going to connect the two ostensibly to reduce oGCD load, at least commit to making C&S the single-target version in every relevant manner and have it give a juicy life-leech. Possibly even a solid opportunity to have it heal more versus a single target than AD.

But consensus seems to be to disconnect them. Is this just about damage output? Does that reversion include removing the MP drain from AD? Where are we here, I'm genuinely curious, not a rhetorical question.

[MagiusNecros]

It's restrictive and AD is objectively shittier then the other tanks "60s" sustain options. Especially in fights with less then 6 enemies.

AD was at it's best in HW/SB when paired with Blood Price. Sustain was good and was fun to press.

Now it's either do good damage or do shit damage with a shit heal.