Dark Knight changes needed

[Nektulos-Tuor]

Oh what the hell, I'll take your bait.

DRK has natural, rotational healing. If you DA every SE, or even every other SE, you get 100% damage as HP recovery. Even if you're not playing for maximum mitigation or survival, and are focused on maximizing your DPS, you're going to get self-healing on DRK just for doing your rotation. It's even more pronounced on WAR, where a substantial portion of your healing comes just from rotational abilities that don't even require Defiance.

And your answer for that is Clemency?

Clemency is PLD's only notable self-heal. But given that it (still) takes away 2 GCDs to function, there is no possible way that you can compare it to the self-healing that DRK and WAR get.

DRK doesn't really need any kind of boost. They're still ahead of PLD from most parses I've seen, both in MT DPS and OT DPS, and they still have a very good showing from a mitigation perspective (Dark Dance has a much better showing in Midas than Gordias, to my understanding). There are some parity issues that could stand to be addressed, like how some abilities work against one another, but a good DRK knows how to avoid those circumstances, and so generally isn't affected by them (they know not to throw DA Dark Dance at the same time as Blood Price, as an example).

If you're having a hard time managing your MP, then I hate to join the choir, but you need to learn how to play better. And if you're worried about your DPS being surpassed by a skilled PLD now, then that also means you need to learn how to play better. DRK naturally puts out better numbers than PLD, even still, the gap just isn't as wide as it used to be.

That was good prenerf but not so good now. No problem managing MP, I just think it should be used more, which means it needs to cost less MP so you can use it for other abilities.

Not really worried about Paladin DPS, "now" however I can see them catching up closer as gear goes up, which shouldn't be the case at all.

The only parses i've seen so far of "date" is Dark Knight without Grit+Darkside VS Paladin in Shield Oath (Tank Stance.) So of course, the Paladin will have less damage.