Question for fellow DRK's who have played its new Shb iteration.

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Problem is you really don't want something like that as ANY class in an MMO really. The healers would have issues not only having to heal everything as normal but then Dark Knight comes in and the healer things "Great I need to spare resources on this guy or he'll die just by doing his mechanics"

Of course this could be balanced(Ha) if the life steal is enough to offset the drain but if you do that there's kinda no challenge or threat anyway right? Just remove the HP burn.

BLM convert. Obviously the DRK gimmick wouldnt work much for a tank, not a fair tank in this game, so they gave it MP use to sacrifice instead of HP... sorta. I mean theres a half a dozen ways they couldve given that theme with offsets even for a tank, but then WAR would cry either about the dmg output, or the fact that DRK could literally solo anything, even if it took a while. So we got...this...whatever it is. One such example, would be the old blood for blood ability that drg had, mix that with bloodbath or convalesence, theres a drk cooldown right there. LifeSurge, another example of a route they could take with thematic types of abilities. They didnt go there, instead we got this....job...

You know theory crafting that wouldn't be too bad.

Swap Living Dead with Superbolide, and give us abilities like Paladin's Spirit Within.

I totally agree. Another example of how they could have done DRK