Thread: 4.0 (Or 3.5) Tank Changes

These are some changes to tanks (mostly DRK and PLD) that I thought would be interesting.
(Edited 12/25)
DRK:

Dark Passenger:
Dark Dance effect: Blind
Dark Arts effect: 250 potency

Sole Survivor:
If cast on a party member, everytime the party member takes damage a small portion of the caster's MP will be restored (less than Blood Price). Effect lasts for 30 seconds.

PLD:
(Edited 12/25)
Clemency:
Instant cast oGCD with a 20 second cooldown.
Shield Oath Effect: Cure Potency of 1400.
Sword Oath Effect: Restores 180 TP, if cast on a party member the caster has 90 TP restored.

Divine Veil: No longer requires a heal to activate, and cannot be deactivated by a heal. Range increased to 20 yalms.

Nerfing Blood Weapon, Dark Passenger, and not understanding that Dark Knight needs buffs to Dark Dance in a different manner just proves how little you know about the Job. Clemency restoring TP is completely unneeded unless they throw another juggernaut boss like the Manipulator at us, and the Divine Veil buff is unneeded, the range increase might be nice though.

Edit: If you want Dark Knight to function better as an off-tank, all they need is one ability added: Shadow Spikes.

Code:

Shadow Spikes
Cast: 3s
Recast: 2.5s
MP Cost: 884
Coats target party member or self in a layer of vicious spikes.
These spikes deliver an attack with a potency of 10 every time physical damage is suffered for 30 minutes.
If cast on a party member, potency is halved, however any parries or blocks performed by the party member will act as if the Dark Knight had parried the attack.
Can only be active on one target at a time.

If you wanted to go one step further, just remove the PvP requirement to Sole Survivor's secondary effect.

Originally Posted by Ragology

I feel that changes to dark knight should be to make it more desirable in the off tank position, not further solidify it as the most wanted main tank.

Crazy/untested idea here, but what if you could apply Blood Price to a party member at the cost of a longer recast time? Maybe even a cooldown like "Echo of the Abyss" where you put it on a party member and your Blood Price/Low Blow/Reprisal can trigger when they get hit or parry? It fits the theme of a Dark Knight protecting the weak and innocent.