Putting "DRK" back in DRK

[John_Milter]

Nah, Nedkel trolls basically 70% of my tank posts, so it's just meant as friendly banter at this point.

oh ok, also i agree with the tbn change by why lower the HP? dark knight still doesn't have that many good defense cds compared to other tanks with dark mind being a magic damage mitigation

[Satarn]

oh ok, also i agree with the tbn change by why lower the HP? dark knight still doesn't have that many good defense cds compared to other tanks with dark mind being a magic damage mitigation

DRK actually has a very good mitigation against tank busters(especially since those are usually magic damage) and the 5% on TBN wouldn't hurt too much there, especially with Dark Mind being buffed back to 30%. Dark Mind however doesn't really help much when it comes to auto attacks which are usually physical.

Current TBN's full 25% shield is pretty unlikely to break against anything other than tank busters(and even those can be an issue in more casual content), which makes it undesirable to use it on other things. With a slightly smaller value it could be more viable to use TBN as a filler cd for auto attacks and other fluff damage(on top of its normal TB usage) and still break, resulting in no damage loss. With increased MP rates(resulting from other changes) a slightly weaker TBN could be used with higher frequency to cover any holes in your cd rotation if need be.

Basically it's a small sacrifice in strength for a gain in versatility.