Dark Knight Current State

[shao32]

I like he idea of the WAR and DRK and how they deal damage. I’m a vet EQ2 player (Shadowknight was the king of AoE’s and self preservation, I had hoped DRK would feel like that.)

I’ve been practicing my rotations, and honestly, now that I’m not trying to weave DA on every hit, I actually feel less pressure, and since I’m not parsing I don’t know how much less DPS I am delivering. Also, knowing about stance dancing (if that’s what you’d call it) makes me feel more useful. I haven’t done Savage yet, but I was doing Alphascape 1-4 today and MT’ed all fights. I started with Grit, and switched out on less threatening parts.

I honestly feel more comfortable now with the class and don’t feel like I am playing a bad class anymore.

I do have questions about TBN though; When do I use it, how do I know when I need to use it, and aside from throwing it on a tank if I am OT to eat a big hit..aside from saving it for emergencies, I just use it to fill up more blood.

TBN is your bread and butter on mitigation you always use it on tank busters with rampart or shadow wall or dark mind every single time, on big aoes you used too if there is no TB before the skill recast.
If you are a OT then is the same, you use it on the MT to help with TB only but is not enterely necesary specially on non savage content except the MT get a vuln stack or something.
Dont use it against auto attacks on single target, is complety a waste and the shield will never pops (on savage can pop but more that half of the time it will be wasted bcs the boss start casting something or doing a mechanic that dont AA you or you will overflow you blood for nothing).
On dungeons you can use it on adds pulls, TBN pops and you can use quietus to recover mana and keep spaming abyssal drain.