Thread: To Mr.Yoshida and dev. [DRK 5.2 Request]

Originally Posted by Alaeacus

I have ALWAYS fared far better in these situations as a PLD than I have as a DRK, which is what I was conveying with my post. PLD dps is high among tanks, PLD MP gain is great single-target, Clemency heals for huge chunks of life each time. I have outlasted the last 10% of ShB leveling bosses solo. I do not see it happening with DRK. That's just my opinion. People can say "Git Gud" to me all day but honestly, there is nothing about DRK that incentivizes me to Git Gud with it. It's a class filled with busy-work and is only "on-par" with three other classes who don't have the aforementioned busy-work. There is no reward for the extra work DRK requires with all its resource gauge-watching.

Also, I'm struggling to understand what is funny about the sentence you quoted of mine. If you actually think I'm the only person in thousands of players that has this opinion of DRK, you obviously aren't a fan of statistical probability. Do you think you're a unique flower and nobody in the world has ever felt or had the same thoughts as you? The likelihood that I am the only person who feels this way is incredibly low.

Your opinion is incorrect, as you can (and I have) solo finished Grand Cosmos and Twinning's last boss on DRK at similar HP percentages.

It's more difficult to do than a PLD as it requires predictive use of TBN and CDs based on knowing what is coming to stop damage rather than reactively healing it via Clemency, but it can be done.

I don't feel like there's gonna be any significant DRK changes in 5.2 tbh especially with something like adding or reworking abilities. My only real gripe with the job now is Delirium is quite literally just Inner Release but without the big flashy number for my lizard brain but defensive wise DRK is very good and doesn't really need anything else.

Also I saw in OP something about Sole Survivor and while that was a cool looking ability the new Abyssal Drain does what you're asking, just less effective on single target and no MP (which really isn't needed and Carve and Spit already does that).

Originally Posted by cactuarzzzz

1."Living Dead"

Problem : Without the Healer, this ability is basically a suicide button.

Request : Please remove healing requirement and K.O punishment effect from Living Dead.

I'd rather Living Dead just be made into a trait that automatically activates when your HP hits 0. It's a way a lot of RPGs handle death-cheating abilities. Usually with a condition like it can only happen once every x minutes, or once-per-battle, etc. Could trigger when the HP of the DRK would hit 0, set HP to 1, and give the DRK the Living Dead state preventing HP from falling below 1 for X seconds. Just like it is now, but without the debuff creating a requirement to heal them back up.

I'd like if they focused more on ways to make the individual tank abilities uniquely awesome, as the cost of increased homogenization makes things easier to compare, which makes the decisions feel less exciting and worse exacerbates the community perception of imbalance as apples more closely resemble oranges.

Originally Posted by Esmoire

I'd rather Living Dead just be made into a trait that automatically activates when your HP hits 0. It's a way a lot of RPGs handle death-cheating abilities. Usually with a condition like it can only happen once every x minutes, or once-per-battle, etc. Could trigger when the HP of the DRK would hit 0, set HP to 1, and give the DRK the Living Dead state preventing HP from falling below 1 for X seconds. Just like it is now, but without the debuff creating a requirement to heal them back up.

I'd like if they focused more on ways to make the individual tank abilities uniquely awesome, as the cost of increased homogenization makes things easier to compare, which makes the decisions feel less exciting and worse exacerbates the community perception of imbalance as apples more closely resemble oranges.

Something like this will be awesome but probably would be overpowered, similar to WoW's WotLK Pally Ardent defender (which was nerfed next expansion).

I just think the current issue with the skill is that Healing potency are as high as previously (SB) so you have trouble removing Walking Dead without benediction. If we add a 10~20% increase healing received to the Walking Dead status then I think the issue will be solved with Living Dead.

Originally Posted by SleepyNeko

Something like this will be awesome but probably would be overpowered, similar to WoW's WotLK Pally Ardent defender (which was nerfed next expansion).

I mean, even with my suggested implementation, a lot of people would still say a trait like that isn't as awesome as having Hollowed Ground. xP Can always go the route of giving tanks more awesome stuff exclusive to them, like 40% Sentinel or Holmgang knockback immunity. Stuff like the latter runs the risk of giving tanks encounter-specific advantages, though we kind of already have that with full invulnerabilities which is kind of inevitable with creative freedom.

Originally Posted by Esmoire

I mean, even with my suggested implementation, a lot of people would still say a trait like that isn't as awesome as having Hollowed Ground. xP Can always go the route of giving tanks more awesome stuff exclusive to them, like 40% Sentinel or Holmgang knockback immunity. Stuff like the latter runs the risk of giving tanks encounter-specific advantages, though we kind of already have that with full invulnerabilities which is kind of inevitable with creative freedom.

I just think that suggestion will be totally awesome for Pug dungeon runs and just pushes back alot of the healing stress because you always have a safety net. Even in high end content if the tank is not required to use Invuln it can be there to let healers push dps without worrying about the tank suddenly dropping.

Originally Posted by SleepyNeko

I just think that suggestion will be totally awesome for Pug dungeon runs and just pushes back alot of the healing stress because you always have a safety net. Even in high end content if the tank is not required to use Invuln it can be there to let healers push dps without worrying about the tank suddenly dropping.

Definitely! Anything that could avoid this game's horrible buff delay the better.