Dark Knight Megathread

[Dauntess]

I think it's pretty easy to fix living dead, as it is now, it's the worst skill in the game. Walking dead should actually apply invulnerability for starters. Superbolide and hollowed ground apply this with no hoops to jump through. Walking dead needs to be separated from the death part. As it is now, as soon as your healed to full, walking dead gets removed. This is the only invulnerability in the game that can be removed like this.

As soon as your health drops below 1HP when under the effect of living dead, walking dead and doom gets applied. While under walking dead, take no damage. When healed to full, doom is removed. Problem solved

[Noctisnine]

If the Devs do really pay attention to the Forum here comes my humble opinion.

DRK needs a complete rework. Delirium is a copy of the inner release and it needs to be changed into something unique and fresh. Bloodweapon needs to either give skill speed or to have stacks as the perfect balance has. Living dead should be changed into something else. Flood of shadow and shadowbringers are almost identical in skill design and animation, shadowbringer being the level 90 skill needs to be changed into something unique and worth of expansion content. Salted earth is bad and salt and darkness is even worse. I could have made the animation of salt and darkness in my 10-year-old pc, that's how bad it is. Why not mixing the dot effect on abyssal drain? Imo would be an excellent idea. Remove salted earth from the game.
We also lack a proper combo extension rotation, it's just a 1-2-3 combo and then pops everything else when not in cooldown. It lacks complexity and its just an empty job. It is camouflaged due to the amount of damage it does.
I have played DRK in every type of content, from dungeons to savage.
Is the job fun to play? No, and that is the worse part.
Aesthetically it looks amazing and badass but the gameplay feels bad, boring, empty, and without identity.
For Endwalker the devs were very lazy with DRK, played too much safe and the result is catastrophic.
It needs a rework now, not in 7.0

[Kalaam]

Abyssal drain applying a lifesteal dot to every ennemy hit, wouldn't that be fun. Could make it the level 84 trait/upgrade even.

[Chasingstars]

Maybe they should have more self-healing in their kit that way they can make better use of living dead. Like Blood Weapon and Delerium, allow those two to restore HP in addition MP.

Edit: Obviously its not a big or semi-big rework for dark knight, but they could use something to tie them over till they get that sort of treatment.

[Axxion]

is it wrong to say that i am waiting for the world race to happen? Reason being is that drk will be in this one and its going to clear. And there will be those players saying drk is fine as is because it cleared the raid before the others did.

Anyone remember that live letter when yoshi mentioned that?

[RyuDragnier]

is it wrong to say that i am waiting for the world race to happen? Reason being is that drk will be in this one and its going to clear. And there will be those players saying drk is fine as is because it cleared the raid before the others did.

Anyone remember that live letter when yoshi mentioned that?

This is true, but remember, when AST had a low number of parses in Savage back in ShB, they immediately started fixing AST. If DRK gets a similarly low number of parses...hopefully it'll happen?

[Axxion]

This is true, but remember, when AST had a low number of parses in Savage back in ShB, they immediately started fixing AST. If DRK gets a similarly low number of parses...hopefully it'll happen?

But for that i thought more of healing potency and not damage. Drk has good damage but just lacks the self sustain it had since hw. Drk does better on single fight but not to well on a five plus mob pull. And since they changed how the fights are arranged now. I do hope they will fix it but once again, they don't really listen that well.

Do keep in mind on the party comps. That will also will be a factor for these fights as well.

[RyuDragnier]

But for that i thought more of healing potency and not damage. Drk has good damage but just lacks the self sustain it had since hw. Drk does better on single fight but not to well on a five plus mob pull. And since they changed how the fights are arranged now. I do hope they will fix it but once again, they don't really listen that well.

Do keep in mind on the party comps. That will also will be a factor for these fights as well.

Keep in mind how the bosses for the raids work as well. The 3rd raid boss of Pandaemonium hits both tanks at the same time with every auto. It's very likely you're going to see people want the other tanks over DRK for that very reason, since the other tanks can keep up sustain and make it easier on the healers, whereas a DRK being there may very well make it much harder than it needs to be on the healers. I wouldn't take a DRK to that fight when I could take a GNB, WAR, or PLD instead.

[Derio]

is it wrong to say that i am waiting for the world race to happen? Reason being is that drk will be in this one and its going to clear. And there will be those players saying drk is fine as is because it cleared the raid before the others did.

Anyone remember that live letter when yoshi mentioned that?

They will use this as a justification to not fix DRK too which is sad. I hope they dont ignore DRK but at the same time I highly doubt a complete rework in 6.1

[Oizen]

It seems to me that DRK is doing fine in the damage department though, by dumb luck or the fact they just keep slapping on completely unrelated ogcd attacks. The place DRK falls behind is a place that is not often tracked, being self sustain and damage mitigation.