Thread: 3.4 DRK BUFF

God. The tank class with a gap closer, heavy pvp action, and weapon through doesn't need another cc imo.

Should have given warriors and paladins some cc instead. At least rework holmgang by separating the spear from the invuln.

If anything, they should have buffed dark knights self healing outside of grit.

And does unleash bind everyone in the radius? Sounds so whack.

I can already see adders running drk solely for unleash in frontllines. Unleash plus trip bind plus cometeor!

Sounds fun... not....

But seriously. How is this fair to bards and machinists? Darks have too much cc. Dark in grit for healing souleaters would be unstoppable 1v1.

And in team fights they would be so crazy over powered with a black mage it's not even funny. The amount of cc and aoe in that combo sounds too good to be true.

Anyway, well see.

Pretty weak buff as every range has a stronger bind (10s for bard, 8s for blm/smn/MCH) and every healer has a 8s bind via blizz 2. With 3 people that can bind on a team you're competing against these other jobs for DR resistance, which is going to be a diaster in solo queue and hard to co-ordinate in light party.

Also one of the biggest issues with DRK is you see a melee charging your healer with fetter ward up ready to LB you can do literally nothing to stop it outside of tank LB. As a paladin you can testudo or cover the healer so they don't get low enough that it kills. As a Warrior you can thrill and they now have enough HP to survive (you can even thrill during the LB animation as the heal is instant). As a dark knight you just pray and hope for the best.

This might make DRK stronger in a light party or high level setting, but with matchmaking how it is now it feels like it will be a headache to certain roles.

BRD/MCH want to LB? Bind... oh the drk gave that class DR because they spammed bind, guess my LB missed.
WHM need to fluid aura to relieve pressure? I hope you just want a knockback effect.
SCH/AST/SMN/BLM needs to bliz 2 to kite? LOL nope, binded randomly.

Not saying this is completely bad, it will probably be a great buff for great players. This buff makes me totally dread my unranked/bronze being DRK though, almost as bad as those paladins who stun DR healers 1s into the match.

It's just not the right buff. Drk didn't need more ways to slow or bind runners. Warriors and paladins yes. Dark no.

They could have increased class utility in other ways. If nothing else, a healing reduction or corruption spell would have been nice. Like how storms eye used to work.

In fact, why don't they do that? Add a healing debuff to one of the darks combos and give a bind or heavy or gap closer to a warrior or pally who actually needs it.

And whys is it an aoe bind on a non cooldown ability? Sounds really whack imo.

Like I said. Separate warriors pull from the invuln, give it 15 yard distance, 40 or 60 or even 90 sec cooldown, give darks warriors old storms eye healing debuff.

Everyone gets what they need to feel fleshed out and fun. AND a healing corruption or debuff fits better with the class lore.

I have a 60 drk too. And I'd prefer the debuff over the aoe bind.

A dark can do something to protect. They could carnal chill the dps.

But I agrer. This buff doesn't really help drk be better tanks. Well it does... but there were other better options.

I can see how this will be useful in very specific circumstances, but in solo-queue I can imagine it being a nightmare, most of all for Drks.

Thinking on CC utility, Pld's have a specifically targeted stun. It hits one target. Yet, despite this, Dps still find ways to cock it up and clip it by going crazy and throwing out oGCD stuns on seemingly random targets. Compared to that, Binds are far easier to screw with. I can picture a Drk throwing out a mass Bind for a beautiful cometeor LB, or maybe let the team escape if the healer needs a breather or is dead, etc ... only to have some whack job dps clip the duration of the Bind by swapping targets randomly and knocking them all out of it. Having the Bind available is great for team utility, but I can picture it being far more useful in a party-queue than in solo-queue.