Boycotting Dark Knight

[MagiusNecros]

take deep breath and realize it just a game people

Yeah you're right. *nonchalantly goes back to Elder Scrolls Online*

[dotsforlife]

DRK is (sadly) one of those classes that is fun to play, cool to watch and has nice animations but poor (or none at all) synergy in parties. That's not typically an issue in pre end game content but you don't balance around pre end game. It reminds me of the MNK/SAM/caster classes. Nice on paper. Great dps (well even DRK is third in that regard for its role). No party utility though (or nowhere near the same level as its counterparts) so most groups aren't going to pick the classes up.

DRK is basically the red headed step child of the family so to speak. SE definitely needs to address the issue. When SB launched there was a big change to how synergy was provided by many classes. Sadly, some of them were left off the list and the already ever growing gap for those classes grew even larger.

I support the boycott.

[Shinkyo]

DRK is (sadly) one of those classes that is fun to play, cool to watch and has nice animations but poor (or none at all) synergy in parties. That's not typically an issue in pre end game content but you don't balance around pre end game. It reminds me of the MNK/SAM/caster classes. Nice on paper. Great dps (well even DRK is third in that regard for its role). No party utility though (or nowhere near the same level as its counterparts) so most groups aren't going to pick the classes up.

DRK is basically the red headed step child of the family so to speak. SE definitely needs to address the issue. When SB launched there was a big change to how synergy was provided by many classes. Sadly, some of them were left off the list and the already ever growing gap for those classes grew even larger.

I support the boycott.

Come support my thread about giving magic vul debuff to DRK so they introduce synergy with casters

[Chrono_Rising]

Not sure if everyone saw this, but did we see the reason for the shake it off buff?

«Warrior»
Warrior’s party utility will be increased by changing the effect of Shake It Off and adjusting its party defending capabilities to be more in balance with that of paladin and dark knight.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/350624

I'm guessing their response to TBN feedback is that our utility is equivalent to paladin.

[Awful]

What party defending capabilities are they referring to besides TBN? A 5 sec single target shield that costs tons of resources? I really hope they mention Drk in the Nov 3rd Live Letter if not i'm just going to be eternally sad.

[MagiusNecros]

All it means is they gave WAR a dmg shield. So basically to DRK's it doesn't mean anything. It's just a post objectively going over things that were changed in 4.1. Trivial.

[Mattiux]

i've now levelled my warrior to lv70 and raid-wise my support to the group is far better in any aspect. And i'm not talking about Ultimate, but regular o3s/o4s.



The warrior bring to the table a better dps, better raid mitigation, better aggro management(unchained pull) and for the group without Ninja or Samurai brings the slashing debuff for the Tank's combined dps.


Right now you don't have a reason to bring a Drk over the other two tank, if you do that you are, in a matter of fact, letting outside a set of valuable resources without any good reason or payback.


And, most of all, DrK at this state is far more boring than warrior.

[LittleSparrow]

Boycot a class, lol.

[Eyvhokan]

Boycot a class, lol.

Whether or not there's an 'active' boycott, DRK numbers are lowest and dropping compared to the other tanks in raid content.

[Hayward]

Boycotting a tank job for lack of DPS skills...

Seems legit.

#MetasAreCancerous