Dark Knight Megathread

[Colt47]

I'm always lost when people are complaining about how many removed mechanics Dark Knight has been through, and then turn around and beg for them to remove more mechanics from Dark Knight.

People just want dark knight to feel like an actual dark knight. Whatever that ends up being I don't know but the entire way this job got built was messy even during heavensward. People keep having this weird fascination with that time and all I remember is just how punishing dark arts actually was. Yes, people could be really good on dark knight and feel rewarded back then, but the floor was like two levels down through the basement.

A dark knight should have spells that drain the life and MP out of the opponent as the means of their self sustain. This is literally what they do in every iteration and instead we have a shields tank that has one disconnected skill that drains HP, one disconnected skill that drains MP, a warrior style combo delirium thing, and a blood weapon that apparently just boosts your MP regen instead of actually doing what someone would think a skill called Blood Weapon would actually do. You know, drain HP from your opponent?

Warrior for goodness sakes would have made more sense being the shield tank because they are supposed to be able to shrug off hits and be this tough fighting archetype. Yet for some reason the presentation on that job was to just stick HP healing on every single thing they do and call it a day.

Edit:

Forgot about the third thing DRK did in prior iterations. FFX-2 dress sphere version would sacrifice HP to do damage to opponents. That was something that was carried over to other versions but obviously wouldn't work well in the style of game that FFXIV is. Although they could do something where you could sacrifice the shield to do damage, so sort of simulate the same thing. They'd have to come up with a way to differentiate the shield pool of DRK from other shields because that would be funny unleashing an entire crit shield from a scholar on someone.