Thread: 3.4 DRK BUFF

Drk already has reduced mp consumption in pvp. Don't really need more. And slashing debuff is useless in feast since the only other slashing damage class is a ninja which already has slashing debuff.

Give drk healing debuff imo. Make it their thing. Whereas wars go for straight damage, pallies reduce team damage, drks can reduce the amount of healing of the enemy. All three methods accomplish the same goal in different ways.

Adding more cc which us useless to the drk individually because it already has enough and which requires a lot of team coordination to take full advantage of in a year setting is the wrong way to go for drks themselves and for pvp as a whole.

*in a team setting

TFW you try and Blizzard 2 melee off you, but bind is DR'd because of dRK randomly binding.

I feel like the same argument is being used here that Paladin has suffered through since the dawn of time. Many classes can stun, but doesn't mean they should. While this isn't the perfect update for DRK, it can still be useful if the rest of the team is mindful of their liberal use of bind.

On another note, I see DRK gaining a bit of synergy with certain jobs, namely casters and SCH/AST. My friends I and I will likely try plenty when custom games hit.

Originally Posted by Atreus

I feel like the same argument is being used here that Paladin has suffered through since the dawn of time. Many classes can stun, but doesn't mean they should.

This is very true. _Casts Celestial Opposition_

I've been playing DRK a bit on Feast recently and this will be a really good defensive utility. As a DRK I feel useless when my healer dies while when I'm PLD or WAR I can hold enemies while my party retreats. This bind effect will be pretty helpfull with that. Not only that but helps set Ranged Limit breaks and if people try to wall kite the DRK, well... you're not stuck outside LoS.

I don't think random DRKs will use binds ever, all they ever do is running with 10 stacks and dying in last minute as usual, still without Grit. Good DRKs are so rare and almost all good tanks have switched to WAR/PLD, so when I see a DRK in The Feast it's 95% chance he's unranked and we'll lose.

Originally Posted by Nalien

A Bind huh? Nice utility in a retreat or chase in conjuncture with Plunge... Great synergy with AoE shit, but that's not really worth mentioning... Not going to waste Bind resistance on getting the most out of Salted Earth/etc. when other Jobs can get a lot more out of their Bind... Maybe in Frontlines if I'm alone and get surprised by a couple DPS, it's not bad damage, it's just AoE and delivered over 12 seconds... Regular PvP is very single target burst oriented... Heck, even in that example all I'm doing is likely getting them to blow their self heals, having blown mine... Probably better off doing Unleash and turning it into 1v1 fights...

Instant bind isnt that bad as tank/melee dps its one of the most annoying CC when u start bursting unless you waste a purify etc. but yeah nothing big that would make me switch from WAR to DRK in pvp.

Exactly. Drks don't need utility in the form of crowd control imo.

Healing debuff is the way to go.