Dark Knight needs serious help

[Oizen]

Back in ShB I was saying the new DRK chassis was a decent base they could build on in future expansion.
I was so young and naive back then.

But anyway, DRK needs an identity and distinct gameplay back to make it interresting to play.

I still think it is, but the issue is they have shown they have no interest in expanding it further outside of more ogcds.

I think DRK could be tied together nicely if it had a GCD that consumed all accumulated darkside and did damage/provided healing based on how much was consumed. Give it a 30s CD and it gives you something to do between bursts, gives the job the much needed healing its missing, and makes darkside a real resource that you'd care about overcapping.

Maybe throw some of those cool PVP features of Salted earth into PVE.
I really don't think the job is that far off, and between the two I view it as the more fun version of WAR. Its just it never really gets the attention or push it needs to make it feel complete.

[Zairava]

I still think it is, but the issue is they have shown they have no interest in expanding it further outside of more ogcds.

I think DRK could be tied together nicely if it had a GCD that consumed all accumulated darkside and did damage/provided healing based on how much was consumed. Give it a 30s CD and it gives you something to do between bursts, gives the job the much needed healing its missing, and makes darkside a real resource that you'd care about overcapping.

Maybe throw some of those cool PVP features of Salted earth into PVE.
I really don't think the job is that far off, and between the two I view it as the more fun version of WAR. Its just it never really gets the attention or push it needs to make it feel complete.

Sounds akin to Death Strike (Blood Death Knight on WoW), where damage accumulated over X amount of seconds is used to determine how much healing you receive, but instead it's Darkside. To use Scourge as an ability for this, it could be as such:

Scourge:

• Deals X damage up to a potency of Y
• Heals the user up to a potency of Y

*Damage and healing is based on the amount of Darkside currently left on the timer, and uses up to Z upon execution

To go one step further. Perhaps we could make Scourge aoe while inside of Salted Earth, but the healing isn't per mob, but per use?