2 Dark knight abilities became useless after the hotfix

[Kelg]

Abyssal Drain is now 100% useless. It now only drains from 1 target(still hits other targets), making it a 200-300 hp heal that costs around 3k mp. Why even use this when I can just use soul eater and recover 1000 HP?

Dark passenger now only applies it's dark arts buff to the target enemy... Meaning it can no longer be used as a defensive ability when tanking groups. The only point of this skill now is to spam it whenever it's up.

If this is intended, there is literally no reason to use these 2 skills with dark arts.

[Ehr]

Abyssal Drain is now 100% useless. It now only drains from 1 target(still hits other targets), making it a 200-300 hp heal that costs around 3k mp. Why even use this when I can just use soul eater and recover 1000 HP?

Dark passenger now only applies it's dark arts buff to the target enemy... Meaning it can no longer be used as a defensive ability when tanking groups. The only point of this skill now is to spam it whenever it's up.

If this is intended, there is literally no reason to use these 2 skills with dark arts.

iirc, there was no mention of these changes in the update notes they released from the last update so these are more than likely bugs.

[Madepossible]

Buff Dark Knight Buff Dark Knight!

[JustARTificial]

This was all that was changed.

"The dark knight action "Dark Arts" would apply its effect to multiple actions used in sequence."

If what you said is true, then it is a bug and should be reported.

[Madruck]

Abyssal Drain is not useless......if you were any what of a good tank pulling 3 or more mobs and tanking you would notice with Ilvl 170 your drain does 300 damage to every target you hit without a crit so if you have 3 or more enemies you are doing 900+ damage a tick compared to a non crit buffed souleater for 900 on single target. Dark Knight is a tank...not dps! I do not understand why a tank with such a amazing ability wouldnt want to continually want to use the ability on 3 or more targets with your dots applied to all targets, salted earth down.....and aoeing all enemies down while keeping aggro so they all die evenly while you dps aoe themselves or burn one a time to when they do single target the mobs they are already severely injured making that pull even faster. Stop focusing on single target rotations with the mentality that Dark is a melee dps and use all your abilities to make pulls faster and more efficient as a tank should.

[Katana190]

Abyssal Drain is not useless......if you were any what of a good tank pulling 3 or more mobs and tanking you would notice with Ilvl 170 your drain does 300 damage to every target you hit without a crit so if you have 3 or more enemies you are doing 900+ damage a tick compared to a non crit buffed souleater for 900 on single target.

Did you actually read what the OP was trying to point out? The skill is bugged and only drains from 1 target even if you have like 6 targets. Same for Dark Passenger.

[Marveth]

There are at least two threads mentioning this already as well as an already accepted bug report.

Btw this is just part of the mess thats come to dark knight.
Everytime you get a buff on you, whether it's regen or blood weapon, your darkside will tick mp an extra time. Meaning your mp disappear at an alarming rate atm.

Job is unplayable, if they don't fix it until Alexander release then it's done for.

[Madruck]

Did you actually read what the OP was trying to point out? The skill is bugged and only drains from 1 target even if you have like 6 targets. Same for Dark Passenger.

Yes I did read the OP's comments and mine is working just fine....my Abyssal Drain always hits more than one target with 2 or more mobs so I do not know what to tell you.....

[Hieral]

The Dark Arts bug they were referring to (I would know, I main DRK), is casting Dark Arts immediately followed by Carve and Split, immediately followed by Souleater or Power Slash, to have Dark Arts apply to both Carve and Split and the second action.

Abyssal Drain is SUPPOSED to drain HP from every target.

[TheCount]

Yes I did read the OP's comments and mine is working just fine....my Abyssal Drain always hits more than one target with 2 or more mobs so I do not know what to tell you.....

Seriously learn to read. They are saying it doesn't apply the dark arts effect of abyssal drain to everyone, not that it doesn't hit everyone. We know the standard hit still works normally. It only applies the dark arts effect to 1 mob, which is pretty useless. Same for Dark Passenger, which if you ask me has a more important dark arts effect as well.