Dark Knight Megathread

[Lyth]

You could make a case for revising DRK's resource system, based on the fact that MP regenerates during periods of forced downtime while most gauges do not.

Dark Arts was fine as a concept but its principle problem was around the frequency of use. For it to have any meaning over the current system, you need to be able to use it to situationally choose between two equivalently useful effects (i.e. physical and magical defense). I'm always wary about stances in this game, given how much it has historically struggled with registering stance changes.

[Oizen]

You could make a case for revising DRK's resource system, based on the fact that MP regenerates during periods of forced downtime while most gauges do not.

You know I hear this one a lot, and I have to say anyone who thinks DRK's dominance is coming from the fact that it regenerates mp during downtime doesn't really understand the game. For reference, this downtime mechanic has to be 45 seconds long for it to be a single use of Edge or TBN.
It has way more to do with the entire 2m Burst Meta, and how this game over-rewards Crit/DirectHit.

DRK's resource recovery in downtime refers far more to it having 5+ OGCDs all coming off cool down within those downtime mechanics, and these fights being built around the 2m window, which effectively skip DRK's weakest moments. (The 40 seconds of 123 spam after a burst window).

I don't disagree that something needs to change about this, but removing DRK's use of MP is probably the dumbest thing you could do with the job seeing as compared to its other two resources, MP is the only one that has a semblance of a thought behind it.