Thread: Dark Knight 6.0: Wishlist

Living Dead
Level 50
Ability
Instant
300s
-
0y
0y
Grants the effect of Living Dead. When HP is reduced to 0 while under the effects of Living Dead, instead of becoming KO’d, your status will change to Walking Dead. While under the effect of Walking Dead, most attacks will not lower your HP below 1. If, before the Walking Dead timer runs out, HP is 100% restored, the effect will fade if 100%. If 100% is not restored, you will be KO’d.
Walking Dead Duration: 10s
Combo Action: Armor of Shadows
Combo Effect: Reduces HP restored by 50%
Salted Earth
Level 52
Ability
Instant
35s
-
15y
57
Creates a patch of salted earth, dealing unaspected damage with a potency of 60 to any enemies who enter.
Duration: 15s
Additional Effect: Standing in salted earth grants Armor of Shadows
Duration: 21s
Abyssal Drain
Level 56
Spell
1.5s Channel / OGC
2.5s
2000 MP
15y
5y
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 200 to target.
Additional Effect: Restores own HP
Cure Potency: 100
Combo Action: Armor of Shadows
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 400 to target.
Combo Cure Potency: 200
Mana Regen: 50
Combo Effect: Armor of Shadows enhances Abyssal Drain to AoE
Stalwart Soul
Level 58
Ability
Instant
2.5s
-
0y
5y
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 100 to all nearby enemies.
Combo Action: Unleash
Combo Potency: 160

Traits
Dark Enhancement
Level 72
Stalwart Soul now restores MP and grants 20 Blood gauge

What if the DK game play was a DoT style tanking?

Flood of Darkness (Job Quest) Lv 30. Ability Instant 2s 3000MP 10y 10y
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 200 to all enemies in a straight line before you.
Additional Effect: Corruption
Damage over time: Potency: 50
Bonus Effect: Stacks 5 times
Additional Effect: Grants Darkside, increasing damage dealt by 10%
Duration: 30s
Extends Darkside duration by 30s to a maximum of 60s.
Shares a recast timer with Edge of Darkness.

Edge of Darkness (Job Quest) Lv 40. Ability Instant 2s 3000MP 3y 0y
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 280.
Additional Effect: Corruption
Damage over time: Potency: 70
Bonus Effect: Stacks 5 times
Additional Effect: Grants Darkside, increasing damage dealt by 10%
Duration: 30s
Extends Darkside duration by 30s to a maximum of 60s.
Shares a recast timer with Flood of Darkness.

Living Dead Lv 50. Ability Instant 300s - 0y 0y
Grants the effect of Living Dead. When HP is reduced to 0 while under the effects of Living Dead, instead of becoming KO’d, your status will change to Walking Dead. While under the effect of Walking Dead, most attacks will not lower your HP below 1. If, before the Walking Dead timer runs out, HP is 100% restored, the effect will fade if 100%. If 100% is not restored, you will be KO’d.
Walking Dead Duration: 10s
Combo Action: Armor of Shadows
Combo Effect: Reduces HP restored by 50%

Salted Earth Lv 52. Ability Instant 35s - 15y 5y
Creates a patch of salted earth, dealing unaspected damage with a potency of 60 to any enemies who enter.
Duration: 15s
Additional Effect: Standing in salted earth grants Armor of Shadows
Duration: 21s

Abyssal Drain Lv. 56 Ability 1.5s Channel / OGC 2.5s 2000 MP 15y 5y
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 200 to target.
Additional Effect: Restores own HP
Cure Potency: 100
Combo Action: Armor of Shadows
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 400 to target.
Combo Cure Potency: 200
Combo Effect: Armor of Shadows enhances Abyssal Drain to AoE

Stalwart Soul Lv. 58 Ability Instant 2.5s - 0y 5y
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 100 to all nearby enemies.
Combo Action: Unleash
Combo Potency: 160

Carve and Spit (Job Quest) Lv 60. Ability Instant 60s 3y 0y
Delivers a threefold attack with a potency of 450.
Additional Effect: Restores MP
Additional Effect: Devour
Devour Bonus: Increases the potency of Carve and Spit by 100 per Corruption consumed.

Bloodspiller Lv 62. Weaponskill Instant 2.5s 3y 0y
Delivers an attack with a potency of 480.
Additional Effect: Corruption
Damage over time: Potency: 120
Duration: 21s
Bonus Effect: Stacks 5 times
Blood Gauge Cost: 50

Quietus Lv 64. Weaponskill Instant 2.5s 0y 5y
Delivers an attack with a potency of 155.
Additional Effect: Corruption
Bonus Effect: Stacks 5 times
Damage over time: Potency: 55
Duration: 21s
Blood Gauge Cost: 50

Originally Posted by Lyth

The one issue that I have with combo based DoTs or upkeep buffs is that they push the job towards a fixed rotation, like PLD. This reduces your flexibility to make resource management decisions on the GCD. This is one of the reasons that I recommended a free-form combo system similar to MNK, in that you're not obliged to follow through with any given combo to the end.

Procs are another good way to differentiate resource management jobs from fixed rotation jobs, especially when they lead to variable resource gains. One of the nice features of Blood Price was that it did lead to slight variations in your resource totals, such that you generally weren't at the same MP/blood totals at a given point in the fight. That tends to keep things interesting.

Everyone remembers Scourge fondly for the animation, but most players struggled to maintain adequate Scourge uptime back in Heavensward. I'm not sure how well the current playerbase would fare with it.

I think the devs should move away from VERY LONG phase transitions as THOSE seem to be playing a key part in the gutting of toolkits from Stormblood onward, along with just being tossed into a boss room without even fight some trash mobs in 1 or 2 hallways or even a door boss and calling just the boss with maybe an add phase a raid, which are exactly what trials are so just call the raids as trials if it's just the boss with maybe an add phase and less forced downtime with content in general...

And might as well address healers for the healers that might see this; less focus on oGCD healing and more focus on GCD DPS and healing, can have oGCD healing but not too much but if oGCD healing has DPS as well then that might be a good way to balance healers outside of popping an oGCD to keep tank alive long enough to not care about their HP...

And before I forget, no more Eureka themed actions if we can't use them outside of Eureka/Bozja...