Thread: Patch 3.05 up... NO DRK rework!

What I'd like to see for revisions/adjustments:

To all jobs:

• Skill Speed and Spell Speed turned into a single Speed stat.
• TP refresh ticks reduced to 50 TP but now tick per 'base GCD', which includes the effects of Speed and certain abilities/buffs (e.g. Blood Weapon while excluding the effects of Huton/GL and Slow).
• Stancing abilities that are not timer-locked (like Cleric, WM, and Gauss) can now be dropped off-GCD (primarily aimed towards Shield Oath and Grit).

To Dark Knight specifically:

• Darkside no longer consumes mana upon receiving buffs or ticks of effect therefrom.
• Darkside no longer consumes a tick of mana upon being dropped.
• Mana gains from Syphon Strike and Blood Weapon will now always be calculated before the mana drain from Darkside.
• Darkside’s visual effect has been revised. It should now appear smaller and more concentrated around the Dark Knight’s blade, right arm, (and eyes).
• Living Dead now requires the DRK to be healed for 90% of its health, down from 100%.
• Blood Price has been revised. Blood Price will now give mana per attack attempted against you, rewarding dodges and enemy misses, and factors in actual, pre-mitigation damage for its mana returns. Its value in single-target situations has been somewhat increased, especially during intensive damage phases, while its value versus crowds of weak enemies has been slightly reduced. [Tldr; evasion no longer costs mana]
• Delirium will no longer be removed by Dragon Kick, though their effects will still be incapable of stacking.
• Unenhanced Carve and Spit improved from 100 potency to 220 potency.
• Reprisal can trigger from dodges.

The MP costs of several actions has been reduced:
(Note: DRK has ~6920 - ~6950 mana at level 60.)

• Grit MP cost reduced from (at lvl60) 1326 to 440. (Reduced to 33% of past value)
• Darkside MP cost reduced from (at lvl60) 442 to 330. (Reduced to 75% of past value)
• Unleash MP cost reduced from (at lvl60) 800 to 770. (Reduced to 96% of past value)
• Dark Passenger MP cost reduced from (at lvl60) 884 to 800. (Reduced to 91% of past value)
• Abyssal Drain MP cost reduced from (at lvl60) 974 to 850. (Reduced to 87% of past value)
• Dark Arts MP cost reduced from (at lvl60) 1764 to 1500. (Reduced to 85% of past value)

(Apart from the Grit and Darkside change, these aren't too important at 60, but I would prefer this scaling for Unleash-DP-AD, as it would allow us to take advantage of our CDs with few enemies, instead of their cost in DA-SE commonly being more worthwhile. I think these values are fairly reasonable, but tied with the BP revision, should add up to a bit more MT dps. -- And I honestly would like it if PLDs, in contingent complaints, also had their MT dps raised a bit closer to WAR's...)

Possibly OP, but fixes DD's randomness and DM's lackluster-ness:

• Dark Mind duration has been increased to 12s (up 20% of prior).
• Dark Dance parry chance bonus increased to 50% (up 67% of prior), but duration has been reduced to 15s (down 25% of prior).
• At level 48 Dark Knight receives a new trait - Necessary Losses. While under the effect of Dark Dance or Dark Mind, the respective ability can be re-triggered to briefly double their effect at cost of duration. Re-triggering Dark Dance will cause Keen Darkness, which will guarantee the next parry and/or dodge but after expiration reduce Dark Dance's duration by 2 seconds + duration equal to twice the damage absorbed or equal to the damage evaded as a percent of your maximum health. Retriggering Dark Mind will cause Dark Mist, which duplicate the resistance bonus of your Dark Mind ability for 4 seconds, but upon expiration reduces Dark Mind's remaining duration by thrice the percent of your health Dark Mist absorbed + 2 seconds. Each effect has a 5 second internal timer.

Unnecessary but fitting:

• Blood Weapon can now be triggered while in Grit, where it will cause Blood Weapon to drain HP instead of MP and to half-scale with real damage dealt each strike (flat value averaged with scaling value). In most situations, this HP drain is worth less than the MP drain, but if triggered before dropping Grit and swapping out of MT position, the extra dps from OT position can cause a decent amount of health regeneration.
• Consuming Dark Arts via Power Slash now refunds 33% of its mana cost OR now generates enmity averaged between its original value and a Provoke if the Provoke's value would exceed DA-Power Slash's. (The prior improves its general feasibility while the latter makes it useful for reclaiming enemies if Provoke is down, giving it at least situational use).
• Sole Survivor CD reduced to 90 seconds. At the end of its duration it will now deal or heal damage equal to half the health it would have restored if the target has not died. If used on an ally, any parries the target makes will also trigger your Reprisal.
• Soul Eater now still heals when out of Grit, but only at 50% effect.

Originally Posted by dragoelete

i think they meant the base amount for the class as i have around 6200 outside of party as a sunseeker mi'quote

Nah, I just got the numbers reversed. Meant to say '~6950' for in-party values. >.> Most balancing would need to be done for in-party values, after all, and almost every group runs SCH.

Too lazy to redo the percentile mana costs right now, so just deleting them.

Originally Posted by dragoelete

i think they meant the base amount for the class as i have around 6200 outside of party as a sunseeker mi'quote

That's weird. I'm a sun seeker too and I've got 6930 outside of a party.