The Definitive Dark Knight Guide

[Allyrion]

What are people using in A1S for the Plasma buster? What do you save for it?
I don't know if it's cause we have an AST or just me, but the boss hits pretty hard outside of the buster.
You can use anything at the start of the fight and it'll be up by the first Plasma, but what have you guys been using to survive it?

If I don't have the mp for a DA + SE combo should I just stick with the DL combo? It's 20 more potency than a regular SE combo. So far that's what I have been doing.

DA + PS (establish amazing hate lead) > DA + SE > DL combo spam (when mp is low) > DA + SE > Non DA PS combo (including oGCD's between everything of course).

I think that's right, but I don't mind using SE without DA if I think the heal wouldn't be wasted.
For most content, going for potency is usually fine because the healers are gonna top you off anyway.
I've found that in Savage, every bit counts when it comes to helping the healers because I'm usually not topped off.

[Fatshine]

What are people using in A1S for the Plasma buster? What do you save for it?
I don't know if it's cause we have an AST or just me, but the boss hits pretty hard outside of the buster.
You can use anything at the start of the fight and it'll be up by the first Plasma, but what have you guys been using to survive it?



I think that's right, but I don't mind using SE without DA if I think the heal wouldn't be wasted.
For most content, going for potency is usually fine because the healers are gonna top you off anyway.
I've found that in Savage, every bit counts when it comes to helping the healers because I'm usually not topped off.

Yep yep, I had the same thought.

[Giantbane]

I'm not sure how people are using DA + SE all that often when tanking unless they're dropping Grit and Using Blood Weapon. Since DA + SE is such a low priority, I rarely find I have enough mana to use it more than 1x per minute (maybe) in a single target fight.

This is with only using 1-2 power slash combos to start the fight and doing siphon combos (SE / DL) from that point on.

I think that's right, but I don't mind using SE without DA if I think the heal wouldn't be wasted.
For most content, going for potency is usually fine because the healers are gonna top you off anyway.
I've found that in Savage, every bit counts when it comes to helping the healers because I'm usually not topped off.

On lower level content like EX: DR, I find the extra SE's allow healers to stay in cleric longer.

[Leigaon]

I just started to play DRK. I did tanking in 2.0 but stopped a while before 3.0. I took a look at the job and tried to learn things on my own. So far I'm getting the grasp of it, maintaining MP while keeping hate. I was looking at this for macros, hoping the OP would update the main post.

24 pages is a lot. If I missed a thread please point me to it but I'm trying to gather up any useful macros for this job that I do not currently use on WAR and PLD (both 50 but still have all the stuff ready to go.), I have a general idea of what I want to use but you often find very rare and golden egg macros.

[Daega]

I just started to play DRK. I did tanking in 2.0 but stopped a while before 3.0. I took a look at the job and tried to learn things on my own. So far I'm getting the grasp of it, maintaining MP while keeping hate. I was looking at this for macros, hoping the OP would update the main post.

24 pages is a lot. If I missed a thread please point me to it but I'm trying to gather up any useful macros for this job that I do not currently use on WAR and PLD (both 50 but still have all the stuff ready to go.), I have a general idea of what I want to use but you often find very rare and golden egg macros.

In PvE never use macro's unless addressing the group to incoming damage or using certain abilities to help mitigate.

In PvP I have 3 macros. (DPS) Blood weapon+Bloodbath+ Convalescence (Melee Def) Shadowskin+Foresight+Parry buff+Blood Price (Magic Def) Shadow Wall+Dark Mind+Blood Price.

These all have a /wait 1 in between to be used effectively. Using this macro's while using keys and clicking may ofset and cancel certain skills so it may be nessecary to click it several times to make sure. In any situation you never want to macro, but use each ability as needed. That's very very easy to do in PvE. In PvP things are incredibly fast pace and can last a matter of seconds so you need to burst skills.

[pandabearcat]

No reason not to use macros for oGCDs.

Here are my macros:

# generic defensive macro
/ac Dark Dance
/ac Shadowskin
/ac Shadow Wall

# button saver reprisal
/ac Reprisal
/ac Carve and Spit

# mana regen
/ac Blood Weapon
/ac Blood Price

You press each of these ONCE when you need to use them.

[Leigaon]

That works, I've seen a lot of these macros where people compile moves into one. Which would be much easier. Currently I use certain macros to address the group of things (such as provoke) but also use ability / hotbar / crossbar switch out macros mixed with voice commands to activate other macros..it gets really unnecessary, I always love seeing what I need to and put away the things I don't. Always enjoy seeing what others do, so a thumbs up to both of you.

[ArtificialxSky]

What are people using in A1S for the Plasma buster? What do you save for it?
I don't know if it's cause we have an AST or just me, but the boss hits pretty hard outside of the buster.
You can use anything at the start of the fight and it'll be up by the first Plasma, but what have you guys been using to survive it?

Our DRK is using the following defensive cooldown rotation:

For the first Hypercompressed Plasma: Dark Mind (Dark Arts) + Shadow Wall + Shadow Skin = 3-4k damage taken
Second: Living Dead
Third: Same as first

Use Convalescence after Hypercompressed Plasma has gone out.

[Xenosan]

Actually I've found oGCD macros do slow down your wheel, you can hit 1 oGCD macro'd without delaying the GCD wheel, but if you try hitting 2 oGCDs (that are both macro) it does.

for example a macro of:

/ac Sentinel <me>
/ac Bloodbath <me>

Hitting it repeatedly between a GCD will delay the next. Also I've felt you need to tap it repeatedly - as the click doesn't 'register' unless the GCD wheel is passed 30-40%

without the macro just using the 2 oGCDs vanilla will be faster and not delay the next GCD (although Bloodbath may be a bad example, I feel that that OGCD has relatively long animation - but most others can do 2 oGCD between GCD without interrupting)

[Gardes]

Actually I've found oGCD macros do slow down your wheel, you can hit 1 oGCD macro'd without delaying the GCD wheel, but if you try hitting 2 oGCDs (that are both macro) it does.

for example a macro of:

/ac Sentinel <me>
/ac Bloodbath <me>

Hitting it repeatedly between a GCD will delay the next. Also I've felt you need to tap it repeatedly - as the click doesn't 'register' unless the GCD wheel is passed 30-40%

without the macro just using the 2 oGCDs vanilla will be faster and not delay the next GCD (although Bloodbath may be a bad example, I feel that that OGCD has relatively long animation - but most others can do 2 oGCD between GCD without interrupting)

The difference is pretty huge actually since you CAN queue OGCDs. Just try tapping 2 gcds in succession with no timing what so ever, just tapping them once each really fast and the 2nd ogcd will cancel the 1st one's animation way faster than when you have 2 OGCDs macrod and mashing it.