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

[Garlan]

...We want transparency. At least we want to know your thoughts, reasoning, and approach to things.

We know you can do better. We love your game and your work. However, please reconsider and reach out to the community.

Thank you.

To be absolutely fair to the developers, they stated the 5.0 rework was a direct result of community feedback, which is true. During 4.0 the forums and official subreddit were flooded with anti-Dark Art sentiments, and many players rejoiced after the 5.0 job action trailer. For better or for worse, the community as a whole is responsible for the rework due to backlash of player feedback.

Some changes I think we can realistically expect are fixes for BW, LD, possibly stronger options for non-shield sustain, and a slight revamp of when select skills become unlocked during the leveling path.

However, I'd LOVE to see Dark Arts return, but as a 25s oGCD with no mana cost. Since we have Edge/Flood, Dark Art's new purpose would be to solely enhance our defensive kit by altering select skills. I'm thinking things like DA enhancing Souleater's heal, DA allowing Dark Mind to include a 10% reduction to physical damage, DA increasing TBN's shield by an additional 5%, DA adding an additional effect of "increases HP recovery via healing actions by X%" to Oblation, or DA allowing BW to provide an additional HP leeching-effect for the duration.