Your Dark Knight players are unhappy. あなたの暗闇騎士プレイヤーは不幸です

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so you want to turn the class into a more convoluted mess than current DPS's ?

I see the 3 Rotations only turning out well, if you Cast a OCGD to "Modify" your rotation kinda how GNB has its entire combo tucked into 1 button now, but that you have your standard combo 1-2-3 as we have now, and can "Imbue" your weapon to grant you a buff with certain effects for X Seconds.

Kinda like how the Mystic Knight works in the other FF Games. with 1 having augmented damage only (Shadow Augment), 1 restoring hp (Blood Augment), 1 restoring Mana (Soul Augment) etc. that way we can reduce the total amount of buttons to fight hotbar clutter while still having a unique playstyle, that gives you quite a bit of utility and management of the buffs you have, as they dont stack.

This would be a compromise between your Idea of Dark arts and 3 Different Combos. Mechanically they stay in line with other tanks, but get more utility/ Interaction with Dark Arts.

These Buffs would of course also extend to Bloodspiller/ Quietus.

Or is that idea stupid?

Thats literally what the original dark arts was and is in my idea. Granted I forgot to make that clear for those like yourself who started in shb or ew

Dark arts was literally a 1/4 mp bar cost ogcd you used to imbue your weapon with to change the effect of a subsequent action. Most of the time it was a weapon skill but there were a couple of ogcds that used it.


Here's an example of the heavensward combo

Hard slash>syphon strike> souleater does the same as it does now, nothings changed
Hard slash>syphon strike^ weaved dark arts> souleater changed does 500 potency with no heal