Dark Knight Megathread

[DRKoftheAzure]

I'm only going to respond to the stuff that piqued my interest...

Why are we trying to make the job that always had comparatively high oGCD attack usage... lose most of its oGCDs?

Because Dark Arts spam was stupid in Stormblood and I want to move away from what is essentially Dark Arts spam but under multiple different names

I haven't seen many complaints about DRK having too many oGCD casts on the whole, only that they're too concentrated (that, per 120s, you burst them all within 15s and are then left bored for the remaining 105s).

Thank you for proving to me once again, that you don't actually read...

This would damn near force you to use it on CD, as it'd grant your 60s offensive CD every 25s so long as you pop it. Such would likely be vastly less now that you've made them GCDs, but still, no other on-demand directly grants damage in that way.

That proves how bad you are at managing a single defensive cooldown

Thus far, what you've suggested sounds more jank to me than its present version, tbh. I also suspect I'd slightly prefer the HW version over what you're suggesting here. Frankly, having a higher number of oGCD attacks, and apm in general, than most other tanks --per periods of quick frenetic burst-- seems iconic to XIV's DRK, and I'd rather not throw that out.

Dark Knight sucks at being a tank with a high APM via oGCD, and Gunbreaker already does that better AND intentionally. And again, the high APM was a result of Stormblood Dark Arts spam. And I would like to enjoy looking at the animations before my next GCD becomes available, thank you.