Dark Knight Megathread

[Shurrikhan]

I agree with everything you said but that, pressing 1-2-3 for 45 seconds isn't fun. Opener just feels like you're spewing out random attacks without any synergy, same thing applies every minute.

Agreed on both counts, but... most openers at this point fit that description fairly well. Not an excuse for DRK, by any means, just... a complicator.

I'm sure it can be 'fixed'... sort-of, but it's hard to come up with a solution off the top of my head that wouldn't also feel constraining (nearly as much as it'd also feel better for having reinvigorated and given some through-line or cohesive goal to burst phases). Of course, we could also bring back *gasp* mini-burst phases to deal with some of the problems of the long lulls.

Change Abyssal Drain to something like its old Dark Arts version. 3000MP, no cooldown, no MP restore. Same damage and cure potency it has now.

Change Oblation to provide a powerful HoT if the shield from TBN breaks on the same target, or if target has Walking Dead.

Change Walking Dead to provide a big lifesteal to all attacks for its duration. Decent DPS and the Oblation HoT should be enough for a DRK to heal their way through.

These would be solid changes, save that with Flood only doing 130->160 potency anyways, Abyssal Drain's potency would need to be less for Flood to be worth casting when taking even the slightest damage not already covered by Kardia et al.

Given its CD, though, it'd be wholly fair to have Walking Dead provide lifesteal AND still remove the chance of dropping its "cannot drop below 1 HP" effect early and get rid of the alt-Doom effect outright.

(I don't think Oblation necessarily needs a powerful HoT, let alone that it needs to be bound up to TBN --though that makes thematic sense-- since both heavily limit its applications, but I wouldn't be opposed to it getting some form of buff.)