Dark Knight Megathread

[Shurrikhan]

Thinking about it now, I can't help but wonder how much of DRK's problem would be solved instantly if they just swapped Quietus and Abyssal Drain...

Abyssal Drain: Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 200 to target and all enemies nearby it.

Additional Effect: Restores own HP
Cure Potency: 200
Blood Gauge Cost: 50

Bloodspiller: Delivers an attack with a potency of 500.

Additional Effect: Restores own HP
Cure Potency: 500
Blood Gauge Cost: 50

Quietus (60 sec CD): Delivers an attack with a potency of 170 to all nearby enemies.

Additional Effect: Restores MP
Shares a recast timer with Carve and Spit.

No more complaints about how AD shouldn't share a CD, Blood Gauge contributes to survival which also separates us from WAR, Delirium becomes a survival CD by extension...
All with just a couple changes they could feasibly implement within one patch cycle...

I don't really see the need to swap AD and Quietus as compared to just having Blood skills heal.
AD then can then just lose its heal--as it has "MP-drain" anyways, which we could easily have scale with target count for big MP restores-- or C&S can gain it for parity.

Either way, yeah, that functionality would help quite a bit.

[Archwizard]

I don't really see the need to swap AD and Quietus as compared to just having Blood skills heal.
AD then can then just lose its heal--as it has "MP-drain" anyways, which we could easily have scale with target count for big MP restores-- or C&S can gain it for parity.

~Flavor~
I mean, "Quietus" is just a word meaning "death". Bloodspiller and Drain at least fall along the same line as far as "bleeding" effects. Quietus as a reflection of C&S works.

Plus, y'know, FF history. With the actual "Drain" spell removed, Abyssal Drain is the last vestige of a "Drain" effect in the game (as opposed to Syphon/Osmose, its MP equivalent).
I'd rather see Abyssal Drain replaced completely than have it lose its iconic HP drain.

Plus upon consideration, the oGCDs don't need to do both HP and MP, particularly if the Blackblood skills do on-demand. They just need to do the same thing as each other, so one becomes the Orogeny to C&S's Upheaval.