DARK KNIGHT: Thoughts on Living Dead and Sole Survivor?

[kumo21]

Living dead can really screw a dark knight over if they are healed to full HP too soon or if, even though anticipated, they don't get killed during the pre 20 second zombie state (which then living dead did nothing).

Sole survivor is useless if that pt member doesn't die. There should be at least some buff in the event they don't die; like an increase in atk/def for the dark knight when the sole survivor buff wears off on them. Otherwise, it'll do nothing.

These two should be combined and be called Last Resort, in which, Living dead buffs the whole part for 20 secs. If any party member dies then they'll enter a zombie state for 10 secs. If they are not healed to full by the end, they die and the dark knight will get back HP and MP that can heal him to full if need be (in case healers are dead).

Thoughts?

[SpookyGhost]

Old news.

Living Dead is good (it's no Hallowed but what is), Sole Survivor is near useless.

[rjspencer4]

Sole Survivor is only good if you have a decent amount of Dragoons in your party.

[Paikis]

Sole Survivor is only good if you have a decent amount of Dragoons in your party.

I think you misspelled Ninjas. Those buggers seem to have the life expectancy of a snowball in an oven.

[Gardes]

Unrelated to living dead and sole survivor, I'm 99.99% convinced that shadow skin is a rampart level mitigation considering shadow wall is vengeance level mitigation and learned at the same level. 0.01% not sure because foresight is learned at the same level (lvl2) and inner beast (rampart level) is learned at 35. But considering blood price and blood weapon are similar skills with different triggers, shadow skin and shadow wall should be the same type, a mitigator.

[Seku]

Sole Survivor is near useless unless you're with a bad group and you know their going to die in which case you can call it~ but I agree it needs a buff in the case you're with a good group and won't die. Good players shouldn't be punished for good team play.

Living dead looks like warrior's ability just about, but looks like it can be better if paired with a whm. Simply because if DRK's HP regeneration abilities are like warriors? You can tell the healers to back off and let you keep yourself alive[or mostly alive]. The longer you can do it (within the 20 seconds) allows the healer's to do other things giving them 10 seconds + w/e time you keep yourself up. Benediction can then be used @ 2-3 seconds [to account for lag]. The other question is if you lose the remaining time on the "zombie effect" if you're healed to 100% before it's effect ends or if they just need to get you to 100% and let you ride it out and then just heal you a bit when it's about to wear off.

[Keisatsu]

I wonder if Sole Survivor can be used on pets.

Target the Scholar's Fairy just before they use dissipation. Get HP + MP while Scholar's get their buff from the fairy sacrifice.

[Marxam]

Sole survivor looks to be more useful in pvp than pve and acts like mercy stroke for DRK. That being said if it works exactly the same way as mercy stroke then I would put it as nearly usless as even for me (war since 2.0 launch) I only land roughly half of the mercy strokes I use with the intention of getting its effect and healing myself in large pulls. Also where did you get the source for the descriptions on the skills. The pre-lim don't have it.

Darkside is looking more confusing everytime I see it. It either works like Unchained (off gcd, offensive buff) or is similar to Cleric Stance where you can freely switch in and out but then the question is how will this effect come into play when stacked with grit? Guess i'll find out on Friday assuming I don't get locked out or em happens or a combination of the two.

[ZhycranaDranix]

Do the have this lay out for the new abilities for current jobs showing what they do exactly , also any word on the changes to Lustrate

[kumo21]

As a tank role comparison, war and pld do not have any abilities whatsoever that have the potential to be completely useless. It doesn't make sense that drk would have TWO abilities that can literally have no beneficial impact.