Dark Knight Megathread

[DRKoftheAzure]

Probably not, honestly. The Limited Leveling Roulette option already removed any chance of getting saddled with a low-level dungeon without that being a function of you doing what the roulette was intended to do (help support queues).

Limited leveling roulette is glitched, and doesn't work as intended. Just putting that out there.

While I wouldn't personally mind the option to work harder for the same throughput (me doing perfect Optimal Drift rotations and demanding perfectly paced pulls from my tank while the actual level 18 just goes 123 12(4)3 123 123 for roughly equal output), it just doesn't seem particularly necessary to muddle new players' experiences in that way, nor would you be able to meet the limits of new sustain (be they healing or mitigation) actions and traits particularly well through scaling alone; you'd also want those outright new attacks, which might not be something you could attach dynamically rather than as a different preset version of the instance.

To be fair, new players would probably be excited to see how fully fleshed out a toolkit for a specific job they would have been getting and would want to get that job and it's toolkit as soon as possible. Though this could have the unintended consequence of promoting level skips...

No, I suspect that tech would be used more for the ability to basically make "Unreal" content on demand, and perhaps have an actual Dungeon Roulette (all the player-favorite dungeons, with some degree of rotation, scaled up to your party's average ilvl for commensurately greater rewards) and Expert Dungeon Roulette (the same, but tuned and filled out more challengingly).

If only Unreal content was permanent.

[ItsUrBoi]

Hi!
In 7.0 please do major changes to this job, it was left unloved after Stormblood and its rework in Shadowbringers while okay, didn't build into too much in Endwalker. While I hope this was deliberate as to not put the job in a spot where it can't be better, here are some ideas:

- Delirium to grant a combo with DRK specific thematic attacks. Spamming the same attack over and over again is Warrior's identity.
- Consolidation of defenses such as merging Dark Mind and Oblation together
- Using Carve and Spit / Abyssal Drain more often, frequency is low
- Living Shadow is a 2 minute button that doesn't do very much, maybe change it to copy abilities that you do or have it execute a cool finisher with you, after it did it rotation of attacks? Or just change it to be a damage buff similar to RPR's Enshroud.
- Defensive tools that can heal yourself for single player content or raid situations where you need instant recovery of HP.
- Maybe a phase where you gain skill / spell speed? No other tank has that.

[GoatOfWar]

Hi!
In 7.0 please do major changes to this job, it was left unloved after Stormblood and its rework in Shadowbringers while okay, didn't build into too much in Endwalker. While I hope this was deliberate as to not put the job in a spot where it can't be better, here are some ideas:

- Delirium to grant a combo with DRK specific thematic attacks. Spamming the same attack over and over again is Warrior's identity.
- Consolidation of defenses such as merging Dark Mind and Oblation together
- Using Carve and Spit / Abyssal Drain more often, frequency is low
- Living Shadow is a 2 minute button that doesn't do very much, maybe change it to copy abilities that you do or have it execute a cool finisher with you, after it did it rotation of attacks? Or just change it to be a damage buff similar to RPR's Enshroud.
- Defensive tools that can heal yourself for single player content or raid situations where you need instant recovery of HP.
- Maybe a phase where you gain skill / spell speed? No other tank has that.

No amount of reworks can fix the issue that Dark knight has; A streamer who mains Warrior and can not cope with the idea of another tank doing something slightly better.
This is just a cycle every expansion. Dark knight does unique thing>streamer gets mad his tank can not do unique thing> all tanks can do it now.. ''Oh Dark knight has no identity and needs a rework'' Repeat.

[Oizen]

Leaked 7.0 Dark Knight:
lv 92: Enhanced Oblation
Oblation now has a 3rd charge

lv 94: Enhanced Carve and Spit/Abyssal Drain
Both now have a 2nd charge

lv 96: Unnamed DRK damage only ogcd # 7 with a 60s cd

lv 98: Enhanced Living Shadow III
Increases Potency of Living Shadow skills

lv100: Dark Rend
GCD that can only be cast under Delirium once per Delirium activation
lv100: Enhanced Living Shadow IV
Living Shadow can execute Dark Rend

Job changes of existing skills:
Salted Earth now has a 60s cd
Dark Mind now has a 90s cd
Shadowbringer now has Guaranteed Crit/DH

please look forward to it

[GoatOfWar]

Leaked 7.0 Dark Knight:
lv 92: Enhanced Oblation
Oblation now has a 3rd charge

lv 94: Enhanced Carve and Spit/Abyssal Drain
Both now have a 2nd charge

lv 96: Unnamed DRK damage only ogcd # 7 with a 60s cd

lv 98: Enhanced Living Shadow III
Increases Potency of Living Shadow skills

lv100: Dark Rend
GCD that can only be cast under Delirium once per Delirium activation
lv100: Enhanced Living Shadow IV
Living Shadow can execute Dark Rend

Job changes of existing skills:
Salted Earth now has a 60s cd
Dark Mind now has a 90s cd
Shadowbringer now has Guaranteed Crit/DH

please look forward to it

Xenosys Vex Will have a field day explaining why Warrior needs 3 stacks of thrill because of Dark knight having 3 stacks of oblation.

[Flay_wind]

Leaked 7.0 Dark Knight:
please look forward to it

You forgot Enhanced Living Shadow V.
Recast of Living Shadow is reduced to 110 seconds.

[Mecia]

I sure love getting LS trait upgrades that amount to basically nothing being added to the job. Its 100% going to happen once again, probably stealing a spot from something more meaningful.

[Kalaam]

Enhanced Plunge II: 5% chance to reduce Carve&Spit/Abyssal Drain CD by 5 seconds

[Absurdity]

Enhanced Plunge II: 5% chance to reduce Carve&Spit/Abyssal Drain CD by 5 seconds

That could introduce some rng into the perfectly bland 60 second loop, so it's definitely not gonna happen.

[Kalaam]

That could introduce some rng into the perfectly bland 60 second loop, so it's definitely not gonna happen.

I remember when Unmend had a chance of making your next Unleash cost no MP. Was a neat little bonus when doing mob pulls, or a kinda refund of a GCD when grabbing a stray mob chasing down one of your DPS. Love that kind of little things.