Dark Knight Megathread

[Shurrikhan]

Brutal Shell should be triggering off spending ammo anyways, but that's beside the point.

Ehh, seems at least adjacently relevant. It's a good guideline for all tanks that active mitigation (and perhaps all sustain) should come from what skills we actually have control over the timing of.

(oGCD Clemency > Req heals, healing from Wrath skills > Storm's Path, healing from Bloodspiller or Edge/Flood > Souleater, etc..)

[Marxam]

I mean, it's a good guideline for all tanks that active mitigation (and perhaps all sustain) should come from what skills we actually have control over the timing of.

(oGCD Clemency > Req heals, healing from Wrath skills > Storm's Path, healing from Bloodspiller or Edge/Flood > Souleater, etc..)

you would think that but they removed skills like that. Remember when you can keep SP up for 100% reprisal uptime on the boss? That was active mitigation via just doing your normal combo rotations. I personally think they should look more towards WAR and PLD as examples of how to manage ogcds. DRK is the wrong way to make a tank imo. Ask any DRK during their 2 min burst to toss help the party by throwing an oblation or TBN to someone else and tell me if they can do it, let alone on controller.

[Shurrikhan]

you would think that but they removed skills like that. Remember when you can keep SP up for 100% reprisal uptime on the boss? That was active mitigation via just doing your normal combo rotations.

Not particularly active of mitigation, tbh, since its application was highly bound up (forcing it into a simple combo A, B, C rhythm) and had only rare moments of any appreciable effect.

And again, my point was that mitigation (and perhaps sustain as a whole) should be timeable, even with a bit of bending or consideration to avoid overcapping opportunities while still optimizing its effect.

:: Better to have it on Inner Beast and Steel Cyclone than Storm's Path, on Burst Strike and Continuation than on Brutal Shell, on a decently bankable proc-allowed oGCD Shield Bash than on Rage of Halone, on Bloodspiller or Edge/Flood than on Souleater, etc., etc.

[Icecylee]

RIP 2.1 Inner Beast