Dark Knight follow up thread

[Tex_Mex]

While I agree that the situation of TBN not breaking and losing the DA proc sucks, especially with how easy it is to do right now, I greatly disagree with the changes that you proposed.
First off, I feel that the whole TBN breaking and then enabling a strong attack is one of the most interesting parts about DRK game-play and helps sell the sense of bringing retribution to an enemy for them attacking you.

I couldn't disagree with you more on this aspect. It's not interesting. It's simplistic and just flat out lazy.

As for just functionality, the 15s recast as opposed to the ~25s of the others is incredibly helpful in some situations, like wall to wall dungeon pulls where keeping TBN on cooldown really helps with your ability to mitigate damage.

I see your point here. But the skill would need to be nerfed a bit if the mana cost and Dark Arts were removed so that it wouldn't be completely broken. Hence, why I put it in. Adding 10% physical mitigation to Dark Mind would likely offset this though (considering Dark Mind is a 60 sec CD)

So yes, the TBN not breaking to get Dark Arts situation we currently have is problematic for a number of reasons, but there are far better ways to address the issue than to just burn it to the ground. It's like cutting off your leg because you have a tendency to stub your toe.

I'd like to hear your idea for how to do it better.