Dark Knight Megathread

[DRKoftheAzure]

The reason to not do make DRK a gcd job is because its never been one and its focus on ogcds is one of the few surviving bits of its job flavor left.
Its mean to be high apm and have a focus on weaving both offensively and defensively, and its honestly pretty rewarding to pull off successfully. DRK is deceptively flexible with mitigations, and very good at just not taking damage. But its not as straight forward as pressing short mit + rampart. I think its completely fine as is.

Heavensward Dark Knight and maybe Stormblood Dark Knight if we count enmity combos for a little extra credit.

I'd really rather not see more things be stripped off DRK for the sake of appealing to players who play other tank jobs, if you want a GCD centric tank, again we have WAR and we have PLD.

Again, all we need to do is look at Heavensward, which for ALL tanks, they were ALL GCD centric, Dark Knight had only had Low Blow which was VERY luck based with parry procs, Reprisal which was a parry proc, Plunge, Dark Passenger,Carve and Spit, and Salted Earth as oGCDs, Dark Arts enhanced certain GCD effects and/or potencies, maybe boosted the potency of Dark Passenger, Paladin had Circle of Scorn, Spirits within, and Shield Swipe which was a Block proc, Warrior had their own oGCD stun that did damage, and all tanks had Access to Warrior's Mercy Stroke. Dark Knight is only considered a oGCD centric job because of either Dark Arts spam, or Low Blow spam, or Edge/Flood spam, and Low Blow spam was balanced by the fact that it was RNG based, Dark Arts and Edge/Flood spam is boring, since you're not engaging with the GCD if the latter, or did not impact the GCD enough if the former, and 1-2-3 spam was always boring, just ask anyone who has played Paladin since ARR or even just picked up the game for the first time lately.

Its okay to not like a job, but expecting a distinguished job to completely rework itself just to appeal to you is pretty unrealistic.

That's devs job to rework it, I'm just giving feedback. And if suggestions for a Dark Knight Rework is unrealistic, then healers asking for more DPS buttons of some kind is also unrealistic, same with melee asking to bring back positionals, Astrologian cards being more than just damage up, Samurais aking for Hissatsu: Kaiten to come back, Dancer and Red Mage RNG to be more forgiving with procs, just go play any other job at that point and don't complain about it sucks to play. Because you might as well be saying all of that, and that is even more unrealistic, than me asking for Dark Knight rework to be good for once.