Dark Knight Megathread

[Shurrikhan]

I think we're more likely to see Darkside just turn into a vestigial trait down the line.

It's vestigial already. How many of us even bother to include our Darkside timer visibly in our UI?

Alternatively, they could just have your Edge/Flood hits raise the timer on your next LS duration up from 0 to some cap, such that you're required to land a certain number of Edge strikes over 2 minutes to maximize its value.

I'm all for added flexibility, but that'd require that this stands in place of LS's full-length, rigid cooldown.

In short, the answer on how to implement a second combo is Soul Reaver.

I'm not necessarily a fan of just swapping over to a carbon copied mechanic of a different job.

Yes, there's scarcely any way to handle a second combo that hasn't been done before (CDed spender, DoT, self-buff, or unlocked via 2-charge spender), but what makes Reaper particularly apt save for just being the other "edgy" one?

Let's not assume that copying a different job would necessarily produce a better DRK, or even that difference from the existing or its earlier precedents necessarily produces improvement. What specifically do we want from this second combo producible by bankable oGCD spenders? Why is it the best idea ("the answer"), rather than just... a possible option?

The problem with this is that it forces the DRK to use TBN on cooldown if they want their big DPS. Perhaps instead make it so something else gives the DA instead, something on a longer timer and isn't a defensive cooldown.

This, though, should not be an issue. We shouldn't be using TBN where it won't break, and any break gives Edge. The penalty for failure, then, is slightly increased (not that we couldn't also compensate for that somewhat, especially as warranted by the deepened penalty), but proper performance would still cost one nothing so long as we just let the resulting free Edge/Flood buff (call it "Black Blade" or whatnot) stack or give it some further bonus for being spent earlier (such that we wouldn't want to stack it anyways).