Dark Knight needs serious help

[Elkanah]

My thought for DRK was that they could turn TBN into a similar WAR Raw Intuition. 10% damage reduction, 6s timer, 25s recast timer. Has the same effect as RI.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

My thought for DRK was that they could turn TBN into a similar WAR Raw Intuition. 10% damage reduction, 6s timer, 25s recast timer. Has the same effect as RI.

So basically homogenization with WAR and creating a second tank to invalidate the existence of dungeon healers.

Not thrilled. I much prefer the 25% shield on a 15s cooldown. The flexibility of that cooldown does not go unnoticed when optimizing it beyond dps.

[Shurrikhan]

The battle stance of the DRK is also kind of aesthetically bad. The sword should not be pointing towards the ground.

Guards held above chest level will (and should) predominantly be aimed downward. A resting position can still point upward, sure, that's it's not in place to defend and would not typically therefore be considered a guard.

DRK's stance is basically just finestra or a pretty typical hanging guard but sagging as if from the weight of the sword. It looks a bit lazy / doesn't look as sharp as one would expect from a trained fighter, but it isn't illogical.

It needs the Absorb-HP/STR/DEX/ACC series of spells to make it interesting to use.

Dex and Acc effectively do not exist (for DRK), as hit chance is already guaranteed (meaning that the most it could actually do is a be a uniquely weak Blind status effect) and DRK gets absolutely nothing from Dex.

We already have Absorb-HP, just in a way that no longer scales with damage amplifiers. Absorb-STR is essentially just pre-buffed Feint for the enemy + a damage buff for the DRK, which would be doable, but isn't likely to be especially interesting.

You can theme DRK around being a stat-stealer, but it would mean that its burst is coupled to its (raid) mitigation, which would go against its identity across its iterations in XIV of being able to seriously unload offensively on a given enemy via decently high-APM flurries of attacks.

My thought for DRK was that they could turn TBN into a similar WAR Raw Intuition. 10% damage reduction, 6s timer, 25s recast timer. Has the same effect as RI.

...Which version and level of Raw Intuition? Referring to its functionality or to its tuning?

Moreover, just... why? Why homogenize it? In Savage, a DRK will already be putting out up to some 1200 HPS off TBN without any unpopped shells or any significant potency loss, and that effectively doesn't even include the lv82 bonuses against which TBN is compared. (For contrast, many of the top WAR healing+mitigation parses still manage less than 600 HPS off Bloodwhetting.) It's not as if TBN is weak.

It just doesn't AoE scale (but neither does anyone's but WAR's, i.e., the outlier's). Which Abyssal Drain does anyways, so even that's a non-issue. If you feel DRK truly needs more AoE-scaled healing, just buff AD.

[Reimmi]

My thought for DRK was that they could turn TBN into a similar WAR Raw Intuition. 10% damage reduction, 6s timer, 25s recast timer. Has the same effect as RI.

Nah the warrior one is already too strong, don't need another like it. warriors needs toning down, and more tanks need mit like drk imo