DRK Consolidated Feedback Thread

[SyzzleSpark]

I also notice people are commenting about warrior buffs, and pointing out the inconsistencies of the highest tank feeling it needs more damage. But I've noticed a steep decline in conversation in dark threads about buffs. We need to keep the conversation going as much as possible.

WF combined with Xeno's ridiculous interview (where he says that utility should be balanced by damage while in the same paragraph implying that WAR should deal more damage than DRK in spite of also having better utility) has encouraged a lot of gaslighting towards DRK's asking for buffs. I'm honestly not sure how to combat that, short of writing a literal scholastic essay covering every single aspect of balance between the tanks with DPS, mitigation, and utility gains/discrepancies fully and completely mathed out with statistics and parses to back the data up (which we have, but I guess no one person has time to compile it all).

When I saw the WAR buff threads pop up I was like really? Is this a thing that is actually happening right now? Did I slip into some extraplanar dimension of quantum inversion? Was the removal of half of your gauge costs and the addition of a free party shield not enough? To which they'd all say "well those were fixes to stuff that never should have been broken" implying that everything that is currently busted right now about DRK is exactly as it should be, which - I don't even know what to call that, other than an insult.

[jameseoakes]

When I saw the WAR buff threads pop up I was like really? Is this a thing that is actually happening right now? Did I slip into some extraplanar dimension of quantum inversion?

I think there will be a group of WAR players who won't be happy until WAR is again required in every party and that 3.0 was well balanced for the tank jobs

Also those end game play rates still look pretty bad, I had wondered if it's play rates where quite good in the dungeons and the like it might give SE the impression that it's still popular despite it's issues in high level content which might explain there slow response to the requests for buffs.

[Chrono_Rising]

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Agreed, both conversations are necessary, I just mean to say we cannot afford to let one conversation go (buffing dark knight) while pointing out that warrior has 3 full time buffs before even looking at berserk to augment its damage. The "argument" in the interview was very cherry picked as far as details.

I think it would be great to put up a full analysis of dark knight backed up with statistics.as its own post. Maybe people have ignored it in the past?