DRK Consolidated Feedback Thread

[Bourne_Endeavor]

So everyone who is already playing DRK should keep playing DRK and make sure that DRK is more desired than other tanks...? Feels like this expansion so far has been #DRKisthenewMNK/DRG mostly because of how they are fixing anything BUT DRK... just a slap to the face really... I actually have my DRK camped out where the 1st DRK trainer was located at...

Honestly? I'd say do the precise opposite. The devs seem to respond much faster when people abandon a job en masse. White Mage had numerous changes happen after the emphasis backlash prior to SB's release. Warrior, Machinist, Scholar, Summoner and Dragoon all had tweaks or straight buffs applied when people stopped playing them. Granted, Dark Knight did get a buff to Quietus, but it's been ignored ever since.

[Tint]

I am sitting on the edge to the shadows, alone, while the other kids are playing, laughing, having fun... I must not have fun anymore, I must suffer. Only the Darkness is my companion... and the silver blade of my greatsword. A reflection of my face in the polished metal - am I... crying..?

[Freyyy]

I am sitting on the edge to the shadows, alone, while the other kids are playing, laughing, having fun... I must not have fun anymore, I must suffer. Only the Darkness is my companion... and the silver blade of my greatsword. A reflection of my face in the polished metal - am I... crying..?

[DRKoftheAzure]

List of personal DRK changes:

• Hard Slash: Add Dark Arts potency of 300 and generates 1 blood
• Spinning Slash: Add Dark Arts combo potency of 350 and generates 3 blood
• Blood Weapon: Remove Grit restriction, add the effects of "increase damage dealt by 10%" and "convert physical damage dealt as HP" while also adding "Cannot be used with Blood Price" and reduce recast to 30 seconds. Grit effect would be "Ignores Grit damage dealt penalty"
• Power Slash: Add Dark Arts combo potency of 420 and add the effect "increase targets damage received by 10%." baseline with Dark Arts effect "Increase damage dealt by 10%" And generates 10 blood
• Syphon Strike: generates 3 blood
• Blood Price: Remove Grit restriction, add the effect additions of Blood Weapon but with the effect of "increase HP recovery via healing magic by 10%" instead of "Increased damage dealt." Also add "Cannot be used with Blood Weapon." and reduce recast to 30 seconds. Grit effect would be the same as Blood Weapon
• Souleater: Make "convert physical damage into HP" baseline, have Dark Arts be "Increase damage dealt by 10%" and add Grit effect of "Reduce targets damage dealt by 10%"
• Dark Passenger: Change Dark Arts effect from inflict blind to "Reduces damage dealt by 10%"
• Dark Mind: Add "decrease physical vulnerability."
• Dark Arts: Remove "Dark Arts fades upon use" restriction on all effects that are affected by Dark Arts, remove timer on Dark Arts and add the effect "Darkside fades when MP reaches 0"
• NEW Weaponskill at level 49: Scourge Delirium, combos off of Syphon Strike with combo potency off 300 and Dark Arts combo potency 400 with Damage over time potency 50 for 30 seconds baseline effect with Dark arts effect of decreased targets damage dealt by 10%." and uses the Heavensward Delirium animation because it looks cool. Also have it generate 10 blood and 5 blood per DoT tick
• Abyssal Drain: increase potency to 150 and make "Convert Damage dealt into HP" baseline with Dark Arts potency of 350.
• Sole Survivor: add "increase targets damage recieved by 10%." Any enemies that would be nearby in 10yalms radius would be marked with Another Victim that lasts 30 seconds and Increases the damage they recieve for 30 seconds.
• Delirium: change name to "Blood Force" and change effect to "Restores HP and MP by 10%" with Dark Arts effect 20%.
• Quietus: change cost from Blood gauge to TP.
• The Blackest Night: Additional shield break effect "increase HP recovery via healing magic and damage dealt by 5% and decrease damage taken by 5%." Dark Arts effect of making it party/raid wide shield that lasts 10 seconds

These changes can be done in gradually so that way the devs don't have to work on JUST DRK.

[DRKoftheAzure]

I hate how posting on forums works with character limits and I need to bypass is somehow...

List of personal DRK changes:

• Hard Slash: Add Dark Arts potency of 300 and generates 1 blood
• Spinning Slash: Add Dark Arts combo potency of 350 and generates 3 blood
• Blood Weapon: Remove Grit restriction, add the effects of "increase damage dealt by 10%" and "convert physical damage dealt as HP" while also adding "Cannot be used with Blood Price" and reduce recast to 30 seconds. Grit effect would be "Ignores Grit damage dealt penalty"
• Power Slash: Add Dark Arts combo potency of 420 and add the effect "increase targets damage received by 10%." baseline with Dark Arts effect "Increase damage dealt by 10%" And generates 10 blood
• Syphon Strike: generates 3 blood.
• Blood Price: Remove Grit restriction, add the effect additions of Blood Weapon but with the effect of "increase HP recovery via healing magic by 10%" instead of "Increased damage dealt." Also add "Cannot be used with Blood Weapon." and reduce recast to 30 seconds. Grit effect would be the same as Blood Weapon
• Souleater: Make "convert physical damage into HP" baseline, have Dark Arts be "Increase damage dealt by 10%" and add Grit effect of "Reduce targets damage dealt by 10%"
• Dark Passenger: Change Dark Arts effect from inflict blind to "Reduces damage dealt by 10%"
• Dark Mind: Add "decrease physical vulnerability."
• Dark Arts: Remove "Dark Arts fades upon use" restriction on all effects that are affected by Dark Arts, remove timer on Dark Arts and add the effect "Darkside fades when MP reaches 0"
• NEW Weaponskill at level 49: Scourge Delirium, combos off of Syphon Strike with combo potency off 300 and Dark Arts combo potency 400 with Damage over time potency 50 for 30 seconds baseline effect with Dark arts effect of decreased targets damage dealt by 10%." and uses the Heavensward Delirium animation because it looks cool. Also have it generate 10 blood and 5 blood per DoT tick
• Abyssal Drain: increase potency to 150 and make "Convert Damage dealt into HP" baseline with Dark Arts potency of 350.
• Sole Survivor: add "increase targets damage recieved by 10%." Any enemies that would be nearby in 10yalms radius would be marked with Another Victim that lasts 30 seconds and Increases the damage they recieve for 30 seconds.
• Delirium: change name to "Blood Force" and change effect to "Restores HP and MP by 10%" with Dark Arts effect 20%.
• Quietus: change cost from Blood gauge to TP.
• The Blackest Night: Additional shield break effect "increase HP recovery via healing magic and damage dealt by 5% and decrease damage taken by 5%." Dark Arts effect of making it party/raid wide shield that lasts 10 seconds

These changes can be done in gradually so that way the devs don't have to work on JUST DRK.

[RLofOBFL]

Yeah let's just make DRK do 4000 dps in full tank stance(5k without!!) AND bring more utility than NIN MCH Land PLD combined....totally balanced, why didn't SE think of that before!?

[347SPECTRE]

Yeah let's just make DRK do 4000 dps in full tank stance(5k without!!) AND bring more utility than NIN MCH Land PLD combined....totally balanced, why didn't SE think of that before!?

We're not asking for an asinine, ludicrous buff like that. I'm fairly certain most are asking for
1. Another defensive CD or a revamp to Dark Mind to make it more worthwhile
2. An actual self heal AD and SE just don't cut it.
3. A second dps combo finisher. It'd be nice if they brought back Scourge as a third combo finisher. And it wouldn't be an on demand DOT like it was originally, it'd have 2 GCD behind it.

[Tegernako]

We're not asking for an asinine, ludicrous buff like that. I'm fairly certain most are asking for
1. Another defensive CD or a revamp to Dark Mind to make it more worthwhile
2. An actual self heal AD and SE just don't cut it.
3. A second dps combo finisher. It'd be nice if they brought back Scourge as a third combo finisher. And it wouldn't be an on demand DOT like it was originally, it'd have 2 GCD behind it.

So you're asking for everything that they took from the class in the transition to be given back basically lol

My other thread is more and more spot on.

[RLofOBFL]

I was just poking fun at the above poster's changes xD

[Chrono_Rising]

Though scourge would be very helpful I think they could replace it in a slightly different way. For example, imagine if we could dark arts TBN to deal dot damage or something of that nature. There are a lot of ways they could buff our dps though.

As far as more mitigation the only thing I really want is a lower cost on TBN (1800 feels more right) and a shorter cool down on shadow wall.