Dark Knight Megathread

[Sazuzaki]

Archwizard actually narrowed down my main issue with how TBN is right now. Personally if I had my way DRG and AST wouldn't be getting the reworks in 7.0, it'd be DRK and SCH. Both are punished heavily by their own job mechanics compared to others in their roles, both are clunky for this same reason, both are the unloved children of the devs in their roles...and both of them are what I main in their respective roles.

For sure, and I've been wondering why they would bother reworking DRG and AST. Both not only perform really well, but are also really fun to play to a lot of people. The only complaints I've seen about the two are DRG's animation locks and AST's RNG. Other than that, they really don't need fundamental reworks.

DRK and SCH are both slowly getting outdated by FFXIV's current design philosophy.

[RyuDragnier]

For sure, and I've been wondering why they would bother reworking DRG and AST. Both not only perform really well, but are also really fun to play to a lot of people. The only complaints I've seen about the two are DRG's animation locks and AST's RNG. Other than that, they really don't need fundamental reworks.

DRK and SCH are both slowly getting outdated by FFXIV's current design philosophy.

It makes you realize just how out of touch the devs are with the players. They literally stated "We don't know what more we can do for SCH." That's a clear confession that the job is not okay and needs a rework so they have a new vision for it. Enhanced Unmend is an unsaid admission to DRK players that they feel the same way about DRK. Hell, they JUST gave us the proper LD fix we'd been asking for since Stormblood.

[Archwizard]

Personally if I had my way DRG and AST wouldn't be getting the reworks in 7.0, it'd be DRK and SCH.

For sure, and I've been wondering why they would bother reworking DRG and AST. Both not only perform really well, but are also really fun to play to a lot of people. The only complaints I've seen about the two are DRG's animation locks and AST's RNG. Other than that, they really don't need fundamental reworks.

Just gonna chime in to mention that while I agree DRG doesn't really need a rework, AST suffers from the same level of button bloat and double-weaving as DRK and SCH, and its current card system is extremely clunky. Each new iteration of the card system becomes more disparate and disconnected from other elements of the kit; Minor Arcana and Divination are completely divorced from the card system, and the seals only exist to create a reason to use all 6 card assets despite Astrodyne not being worth fishing for. You can argue that it's at least popular and functional, but that's just as true for DRK with its burst and SCH with Expedient.

Hell, they JUST gave us the proper LD fix we'd been asking for since Stormblood.

I wouldn't even say it was a "proper LD fix", it feels more like a bandaid. A proper fix would have removed the Doom effect entirely, this just added an extra step to negate it.