Dark Knight Megathread

[ThorneDynasty]

I'll never understand why people focus so much on potencies going up. It doesn't matter to the gameplay in the slightest in vacuum, they will go "up" across the board and boss HP balanced so that trials and raids will take about as much as they do now. It really only matters in relation to other jobs (which will be kept in similar balance they are now, in a patch or two) and between the different abilities.

And even for the latter... Under the 120s-spend-all meta, you'll just use everything during burst without caring much about potency priority, so does it really make a difference how it's delegated between skills? As long as it doesn't create some silly meme-rotation situation.

[Absurdity]

I'll never understand why people focus so much on potencies going up. It doesn't matter to the gameplay in the slightest in vacuum, they will go "up" across the board and boss HP balanced so that trials and raids will take about as much as they do now. It really only matters in relation to other jobs (which will be kept in similar balance they are now, in a patch or two) and between the different abilities.

And even for the latter... Under the 120s-spend-all meta, you'll just use everything during burst without caring much about potency priority, so does it really make a difference how it's delegated between skills? As long as it doesn't create some silly meme-rotation situation.

It matters when it comes to damage variance. Having all your potency spread out between multiple abilities means you do not suffer quite as much from that ability not critting. If a majority of your damage is in 1-2 abilities it can make your overall dps jump wildly depending on whether or not those abilities crit under the 30%+ buff windows.

But ask the Gunbreakers how it feels when Double Down doesn't crit during your 2-min burst.

[ThorneDynasty]

It matters when it comes to damage variance. Having all your potency spread out between multiple abilities means you do not suffer quite as much from that ability not critting. If a majority of your damage is in 1-2 abilities it can make your overall dps jump wildly depending on whether or not those abilities crit under the 30%+ buff windows.

But ask the Gunbreakers how it feels when Double Down doesn't crit during your 2-min burst.

Personally IDGF. The game shouldn't be designed around parsers who obsess over whether one more lucky crit pushes their rank up a few spots.

I mean yeah obviously, you wouldn't make Double Down a million potency and every other oGCD 1 potency, where that kind of random chance would actually start to become a deal breaker for clearing content, but you understand what I mean. Potencies going up doesn't in itself mean anything all things being relative.

[Absurdity]

Personally IDGF. The game shouldn't be designed around parsers who obsess over whether one more lucky crit pushes their rank up a few spots.

I mean yeah obviously, you wouldn't make Double Down a million potency and every other oGCD 1 potency, where that kind of random chance would actually start to become a deal breaker for clearing content, but you understand what I mean. Potencies going up doesn't in itself mean anything all things being relative.

I get what you mean, I couldn't care less about which attack had what potency if the gameplay were actually any good.
But if I have to choose between terrible gameplay and massive crit issues or terrible gameplay and no crit issues I'll take the latter.

Then again I absolutely detest the potency bloat we've been getting for like 3 expansions now anyway.
Remember when Fell Cleave was the highest potency attack in the game with a potency of 500?

[Oizen]

I'll never understand why people focus so much on potencies going up. It doesn't matter to the gameplay in the slightest in vacuum, they will go "up" across the board and boss HP balanced so that trials and raids will take about as much as they do now. It really only matters in relation to other jobs (which will be kept in similar balance they are now, in a patch or two) and between the different abilities.

And even for the latter... Under the 120s-spend-all meta, you'll just use everything during burst without caring much about potency priority, so does it really make a difference how it's delegated between skills? As long as it doesn't create some silly meme-rotation situation.

Its been hilarious to watch people get excited over all the new skills being big potency attacks with 60% falloff on 2m cooldowns.