So DRK will be mp based

[Slappah]

Thoughts on this?

They talked about each of the new jobs mechanics briefly, and they really stressed that dark knight will use mp and need to manage it, and that they wouldn't want to run out of mp.

It made it sound like they will completely use mp, and not tp at all. If so, this will be interesting.
I can see it now, dark knight being able to sprint through a whole dungeon for super speed runs.

[SpookyGhost]

ballad pls

[Noxifer]

Does this mean that people will spec for PIE instead of VIT or STR? To get that mp boost?

And does it mean they'll get separate armour from the other tanks? Since I'd assume PIE would be an important 'secondary' stat for them. Then again, tank gear with some PIE thrown in wouldn't exactly hurt Paladins and Warriors either. More Flash and Stoneskin from Paladins, more Flash from Warriors (instead of those puny three Flashes we can afford now ¬_¬).

[monochromicorn]

I was honestly expecting and hoping for this, and if it's really mp based, I bet the damage stat woll be int, should probably stack up the piety now for the relic

[Slappah]

Does this mean that people will spec for PIE instead of VIT or STR? To get that mp boost?

And does it mean they'll get separate armour from the other tanks? Since I'd assume PIE would be an important 'secondary' stat for them. Then again, tank gear with some PIE thrown in wouldn't exactly hurt Paladins and Warriors either. More Flash and Stoneskin from Paladins, more Flash from Warriors (instead of those puny three Flashes we can afford now ¬_¬).

These are good questions and things that I'm excited to hear about.

[Kaizer]

I always thought PLD was sort of an MP based tank and some new skills post 50 would add to that, but if they are making DKN specialize in MP based tanking, then that means PLD "specialization" is the shield. They should add more to that affect than "Here, equip a shield and you get Bulwark."

[SpookyGhost]

PLD's only native use for MP was Flash anyway. I hope PLD gets more things like Cover than focus on self mitigation.

[Picori]

Hope tanks don't share gear. The AF2 set might be like first set and then myth was. All there own job. Having tanks all same gear is lazy.

[Slappah]

Hope tanks don't share gear. The AF2 set might be like first set and then myth was. All there own job. Having tanks all same gear is lazy.

Smn and blm share sets.

Sch and whm share sets.


Why shouldnt tanks? While I would prefer every job to have their own gear, the way it is currently is better for the sake of drops not being too extremely random, and it also gives them more time to work on other things in the game like the actual contentz the raids.

I mean right now if a tank piece drops either the warrior or the paladin can get it. Now imagine warrior and paladin have seperate sets, whm and sch have seperate sets as do smn and blm. You just added 3 whole new sets of gear to your loot table, now you have things like healers not getting their jobs gear because they only ever see sch stuff, or your paladin never seeing his set.

I like the way it is right now, but they confirmed a new loot system for Alexander so please look forward to it.

[repoe]

Not surprised, and being that it is has no base class it should have a wider variety of cross class skills, ie aetherflow?