Dark Knight Megathread

[Anhra]

A better question is why warrior has life steal at all. Seriously, life leech is a dark aspected ability which belongs on DRK's kit. Warrior using rage to heal does make sense.but stealing life is plain stupid.

Getting angry shouldnt provide ANY healing at all, and it doesnt make ANY sense whatsoever. I would understand it if a angry WAR would be numb to pain (like getting increased defenses for example) but lifesteal effects and a 1200 potency self heal ( literally the strongest single target heal when you exclude Eggs Benediction) is way over the top.

But i do agree that if anyone should ever get lifesteal effects, its DRK. It should also be designed then in a way where it compensates (along with other skills) for Living Dead, if it should stay the same (or at least, with a reduced healing treshold required).

[Jandor]

Getting angry shouldnt provide ANY healing at all, and it doesnt make ANY sense whatsoever. I would understand it if a angry WAR would be numb to pain (like getting increased defenses for example) but lifesteal effects and a 1200 potency self heal ( literally the strongest single target heal when you exclude Eggs Benediction) is way over the top.

But i do agree that if anyone should ever get lifesteal effects, its DRK. It should also be designed then in a way where it compensates (along with other skills) for Living Dead, if it should stay the same (or at least, with a reduced healing treshold required).

WAR getting regens and HP increases feels like a suitable abstraction of 'RAAR ME TO ANGRY TO DIE', agree that the lifesteal focus doesn't really make all that much sense.

Honestly, other than PLD, it feels like all the tanks ended up with odd healing gimmicks.

WAR has best lifesteal, DRK has the best shield, and GNB gets regens. I can't be the only one to think that 'big angry tank' should be focused on increasing and refilling their own HP, the 'dark & edgy tank' should be all about stealing life from their enemies, and the 'cool leather jacket instead of actual armor tank' should be slightly more interested in having the best magical barriers.

I don't really know what I'd do about it at this point though. I suppose I'd start by improving DRK, adding more life steal to it and building a job gimmick around it.