Dark Knight Megathread

[Shurrikhan]

The funny thing is, you've just described a skill that's already available in PvP... to PLD.

Oof. The PvP netcode annoyed me so much back in the day, and the Stormblood simplifications since, that I haven't gone back to try the Endwalker changes to PvP.

But yes, that would be a very interesting alternative to something like, oh I dunno, Dark Missionary? Trouble of course being that it can't be used during downtime or when a boss disappears... and would probably be wildly OP in Alliance Raids.
After all, if it wasn't going to affect everyone who hits the target, just your own group, then why not go the whole 9 yards and just make it a Vampirism group buff? At least then it fits the vague undead theme of DRK (looking at you, LD). And if you combine that with DMis, you solve the downtime issue.

True. While there's still a slight thematic difference between a target-specific curse and a vampiric raid-buff, it probably isn't worth the trouble in terms of target requirements, etc.