Dark Knight Megathread

[Juzjuzz]

But that's already Blackblood. Dark Knight doesn't need two mechanics like that. Do you really want Kenki and Wrath on one job?

No blackblood is about not capping the ressource. The pb with darkside is that without even watching it you can keep it running. If it was seperated of edge/flood of shadow and more like ninja's fuuton buff or reaper's debuff it would be better already.

[ThorneDynasty]

I don't really understand your idea behind unmend here

But enough about Square.

[NightHour]

And I'm not sure how TBN encouraging us to use the shield to maximal effect is "very anti-tank behavior."

How is intentionally standing in AoE effects not "anti tank behavior"?



TBN feels like the old "Anti Magic Shell" shenanigans that went on in older expansions of WoW with all 3 Death Knight specs.


Death Knight's both tank and dps specs would intentionally stand in heavy hitting magic abilities just to generate as many resources from AMS as humanly possible.

Why not? Kenki is extremely shallow anyways, thats why SAM has additional systems. Draining a duration isn't new, that used to be from HW DRG.

Beast Gauge lite, Kenki lite and Storm's Eye lite all existing with zero interaction to each other is mindbogglingly boring.

The apex of DRK gameplay is abusing TBN and riding the CD of your ogcds.

Darkside is incredibly uninteractive as well, oh boy it's about to drop -> hit edge/flood and its got another 30 sec duration.

[RyuDragnier]

*pours one out of the DRKs*

I just gotta say: Yikes.

And, I'm a (former) SCH main.

I'm both...you have no idea how much it hurts to know SE wants me to not have fun.

[Kalaam]

But enough about Square.

Good one. I tip my hat



Otherwise, yes DarkSide could be so much. If it being a timer that gets drained is too awkward, make it a normal gauge to fill, with some abilities using it that are so good you absolutely don't want to overcap through abuse of Edge/Flood.
Again, Blackest Night using Darkside insteand of straight MP would make sense.

[Laerune]

As an Scholar main, I feel your pain, Dark Knights

[Undeadfire]

Shared by Xenosys lol, Edited the profanity.

[Dracosavarian]

Well, that effectively seals my decision. I’ll complete Endwalker, and my journey as a Dark Knight, at the conclusion of story. After that, I am abandoning Drk as my Main and switching over to Reaper. Until they fix the problems with Dark Knight, I will not be utilizing the job.

[ArthurATDayne]

Just when I thought that was it for Dark Knight, lo and behold SquareEnix DRK Devs surprise me again.

I thought Enhanced Unmend + Plunge and Salted Earth-TWO Meme was bad enough but then I saw Carve & Split sharing a CD timer with Abyssal Drain, something Nobody asked for. Like Nobody, N O B O D Y.

I admit, I really didn't see that one coming- it's like a freight train suddenly appearing on the interstate highway during a traffic jam and plowing through 100 cars when the nearest train tracks are 20 miles away. It's neat that we get a mana restore effect on Abyssal Drain now but now it shares CD timer on Carve & Split? WTF? Carve & Split doesn't even restore HP like Abyssal Drain, not even the same type of skill... SquareEnix is taking the piss out of the players.

The Dark Knight Devs deserve a Special F U Award in Recognition of their horrible contribution. They can share the podium with Scholar Devs too, maybe those 2 can bunk up together in same room with 1 bug ridden stained bed.

[Kalaam]

The AD/C&S shared CD does address one complaint there was though. It does help reduce the bloated opener.
However this is not enough.