Dark Knight Megathread

[Marxam]

Just want to remind ppl that Oblation and AST Exaltation have the exact same 60 sec recast timer, same 10% dmg reduction but the latter gets a 500 potency cure at the end of its duration. Seems like an easy copy and paste fix for Oblation.

At least when you compare WAR's ToB to SCH's Protraction, there's an obvious advantages to each version. One being stronger but on a longer cd and one being weaker but on a shorter cd. Oblation and Exaltation is literally the same but the added benefit of a cure at the end is usually better. You can't even stack two oblations on each other for a stronger effect (but still weaker than rampart since its multiplicative).

They just need to lower the cd of TBN to 10-12 secs and see what happens. Don't even need to change the MP cost. Just lower the recast timer and I'm sure that will fix some of DRK's problems.

[Archwizard]

They just need to lower the cd of TBN to 10-12 secs and see what happens. Don't even need to change the MP cost. Just lower the recast timer and I'm sure that will fix some of DRK's problems.

Really wouldn't. The MP cost is the primary limiter on TBN's cooldown, which is why the CD can afford to be so low for DRK compared to other tanks -- we won't have it every 15 seconds, unless we're conserving MP at a damage loss to our opener.

[Crater]

Really wouldn't. The MP cost is the primary limiter on TBN's cooldown, which is why the CD can afford to be so low for DRK compared to other tanks -- we won't have it every 15 seconds, unless we're conserving MP at a damage loss to our opener.

In singletarget, DRK produces almost exactly 12000 MP per minute, just barely enough to hypothetically hit TBN on cooldown (if it were ever useful to hit TBN on cooldown).
In AoE, DRK produces just shy of 15000 MP per minute, which (assuming you started the encounter with a decent amount of MP to slowly draw down) would be enough to hit TBN every 12 seconds or so effectively indefinitely.

That change would leapfrog DRK from being roughly on par with GNB and somewhat behind PLD for mitigation+healing in dungeon pulls to being ahead of PLD by a similar margin. I honestly think it would kind of be overkill.