Dark Knight Megathread

[Derio]

Honestly at this point with the amount of self healing that Warrior and PLD have it makes no sense that DRK shouldnt be way ahead in damage. Gunbreaker heart of corundum is still really good and in many cases better than TBN.

7.0 we can expect some changes to DRK but it needs to be between 1-90. Not just all new skills adding in self healing.

Living shadow should be more involved. Even if its down to where it copies your OGCD's when out instead of being completely random would be better or giving it a salted earth interaction that we can use once its summoned.

Oblation needs to be updated and do more. DRK has so much mitigation and little to no self sustain. You already have the tools in PVP.

Oblation- 10% mitigation and 10% of health restored once the effect ends.
Salted Earth- heals the DRK while standing in it.
Enhanced unmend needs to change to enhanced Bloodspiller + to where when you use Bloodspiller it applies sole survivor to the target.
Abyssal Drain- Remove it or separate it from CS and make it deal 0 damage but increase the healing received from the first target and have falloff for the remaining targets and put on a charge system.

[Zairava]

Honestly at this point with the amount of self healing that Warrior and PLD have it makes no sense that DRK shouldnt be way ahead in damage. Gunbreaker heart of corundum is still really good and in many cases better than TBN.

7.0 we can expect some changes to DRK but it needs to be between 1-90. Not just all new skills adding in self healing.

Living shadow should be more involved. Even if its down to where it copies your OGCD's when out instead of being completely random would be better or giving it a salted earth interaction that we can use once its summoned.

Oblation needs to be updated and do more. DRK has so much mitigation and little to no self sustain. You already have the tools in PVP.

Oblation- 10% mitigation and 10% of health restored once the effect ends.
Salted Earth- heals the DRK while standing in it.
Enhanced unmend needs to change to enhanced Bloodspiller + to where when you use Bloodspiller it applies sole survivor to the target.
Abyssal Drain- Remove it or separate it from CS and make it deal 0 damage but increase the healing received from the first target and have falloff for the remaining targets and put on a charge system.

Some added functionality to salted earth would be nice, whether it's the heal or a passive defense boost. My needlessly complicated out in the future concepts aside, this is a simpler solution.

I'd prefer if we kept both dark mind and oblation somehow, but we are starting to teeter on the edge of being button bloated in general, and if we're to make room for future abilities, them being merged is a likely path to take.

I honestly don't see them ever doing that abyssal drain change purely out of the fact it would be doing no damage at all. It would be more likely that they just make it more like a single use equilibrium if they took that route. The only difference being it would require a target.

I would accept plunge's rendition from pvp into pve any day. I wish I could say I could see them doing that with plunge, but they would probably just make unmend apply sole survivor itself instead

Living Shadow itself does need more, while I don't think what I just listed above entirely solves that issue, something with salted earth like you said might work. Like giving an action that replaces LS when used to use inside of salted earth. the cooldown for salted would need to be adjusted if they keep the 2-minute burst though, as LS is currently on a 2m cd.