Dark Knight follow up thread

[Delily]

It lost its "Watch the MP gauge" identity, when it muddled it with more gauges, and less focus on the MP gauge. (heck it doesnt even get a guage for MP, where u can place it where u want on the hud UI. Nor anything like little markers at certain percentages into the MP bar. Considering THAT was its "identity"...) Blood gauge can mostly be ignored now, and pretty much the same with MP/dark side now.

Its even regains MP on server ticks now.
over all, its just trying to be a little bit of everything, with its "identity" being less magic damage taken, and more direct dmg oGCDs.

While it IS an identity, its not much of one anymore.
Hopefully either updates, or next expansion builds UPON it, rather than from reducing it.

I’ll have to disagree here as I am constantly scanning my MP bar. If I have 10k mana that means I didn’t use at the very least an Edge. I’m trying to keep the bar between 3k and 9k while doing everything else.

[MaraD_]

I’ll have to disagree here as I am constantly scanning my MP bar. If I have 10k mana that means I didn’t use at the very least an Edge. I’m trying to keep the bar between 3k and 9k while doing everything else.

I know u still look at the MP gauge. Im saying its no longer the "specialty".
I look at the MP bar constantly as other jobs too. You could argue not having cast bars is part of its specialty though.

But as long as ur not in the MT position, you never actually have to watch your MP. Theres no reason to hold onto MP.
When ur back into MT position, then of course u save the 3kmp, as DRK has always done. (the one feature it has, is saving just enough MP to do a TBN, which no other class really has in the same way)

This is of course only done once every 30 or so seconds anyways, based on boss TBs, so im sure we'll get to a point where we dont even watch MP most of the time, as we'll know when we can dump all of our MP, and when we need to reserve a small amount for the occasional TB about to come in X seconds.

But yeah, i still wouldnt say MP is their defining feature.

[Delily]

Considering the increased damage output and the changes to TBN, I suspect very much that we’ll be using it on whoever is currently tanking whether that’s us or the cotank. So you won’t be able blow all 3 edges at the start of the fight. It will still be case of keeping 3k mp in reserve.