Dark Knight Megathread

[DRKoftheAzure]

DRK takes a similar approach to its action budget as NIN, which is why they tend to feel similar in terms of burst/downtime. There are a lot of 60s recast GCDs. The fact that Salted Earth had to be offset to 90 seconds highlights that the dev team are aware of how packed the burst window is. What's missing is GCD variety during downtime, which is partially the consequence of an underutilized blood gauge.

I really dislike how the baseline combo generates resources, and I've been pointing this out since Stormblood. I think every combo step should generate blood, which is how resource generation works on more modern jobs. All of DRK's blood actions cost 50 blood. Blood is acquired in 20 blood increments on each Souleater. Who designed this? Change it to 10 blood per combo step, regardless of which GCD you're on, and regardless of whether it's single target or AoE.

More like an amalgamation of pre-existing jobs put together and call it a rework from Shadowbringers, but yeah the GCD variety is VERY lacking... and 10 Job Specific Gauge per combo step(auto-attacks in case of Paladin) SHOULD be standard for ALL JOBS. Also Red Mage would probably feel SO MUCH better to play if it generated White and Black Mana consistantly in increments of 10.

Rather than going back to a flat haste effect, I'd rather see individual GCDs that were sped up. For example, you could have blood-based attacks like Bloodspiller and Quietus on a 1.5s GCD instead.

Yeah I don't see that happening unless it's a passive trait for ALL jobs... Though I am also okay with Darkside being a passive trait that you don't need to turn on and maintain, same with Living Shadow being a trait that just boosts potency by up to 300... Keep the pets on Arcanist jobs, Beast Master, and Puppet Master please and thank you.

I know this impacts MP generation prior to Lv. 62, but perhaps the solution is to just make the blood system available earlier.

That's what I proposed for Edge of Darkness/Shadow but apparently no one likes my idea... Just ask Shurrikhan, and they REALLY don't like my ideas...