Thread: Dark Knight 5.0 animations

I believe my biggest complaint with dark knights animations right now is its basic three step combo. Those swings honestly look like your character is struggling to swing their sword. This, if you ask me, is not at all heroic. It makes you look like you're some buffoon that picked up a sword way too big for them and began to swing it in a haphazard manner.

Bring back Scourge. At least by its animation if not technically. Replace SE animation with Power Slash and as you said, bring also back the HW Delirium Animation.

The Power Slash , HW Delirium & Scourge Animation were the coolest looking ones that DRK had and they removed all of them and left us with the most boring one which is Soul Eater. SE is a skill that you can accept if you have enough alternatives and its just there as one of many other choices. but if its your only skill you dont really want it.

So i hope they finally listen. i dont know why one of the most important topics (skill animations) get so hard ignored by the dev team. the combat system lives from its skill animations. so if they bring new content like raids or dungeons i have to play them with the skills i have and my eyes has to see their animation. so it is very important the skills looks good. and they already made beautiful skills so why remove them? at least if you dont give it back to us, give those old skills the lvl 80 dark knight when you summon him. so he has those skills as exclusive. so at least you get to see them if you summon him. i cant believe anyone would be against that. so what is the dev team waiting for? xD

If the current 3 step combo just had the animations of Hard Slash -> Scourge -> Power Slash, it would make the job look and feel so much better. Those animations and sounds have so much impact and are way to cool to just throw in the trash.

I wholeheartedly believe dark knight would've been a lot more interesting if it had realistically proportioned weapons and combat animations. Granted, the combat animations would still need to be given that dark flair to fit the theme of the class, but the actual movements themselves needn't be so exaggerated or wasteful.

Originally Posted by Absimiliard

I wholeheartedly believe dark knight would've been a lot more interesting if it had realistically proportioned weapons and combat animations. Granted, the combat animations would still need to be given that dark flair to fit the theme of the class, but the actual movements themselves needn't be so exaggerated or wasteful.

Those are my thoughts exactly. How about empowering yourself with the power of darkness in order to be stronger? In order to be able to swing around those Buster Swords or Dragonslayers. And for the realistically proportioned weapons: I was hoping to see more weapons like the Adamantite Zweihander. But sadly, at the moment (Patch 5.05) there are no new weapons for the Dark Knight like that.