Dark Knight Megathread

[shao32]

Here are my wishes fix for the new year:

- Rework delirium, im tired of spam bloodspiller the same way WAR spam fell cleave, no more clone mechanics on the job.
- Fix Blood weapon, make it true 10s of duration or just make it 5 stacks to make his execution less problematic, would love if the recast is halved to 30s too.
- Rework the whole Darkside structure, stop making it a buff that keep himself, make his Gauge something usefull we have to pay attention and not something pretty but useless on our screen.
- Sinergy betwen our skills, make our skills feel conected somehow like only MP skills build Blood and blood skills grant extra MP or Allow the use of new weaponskills that grant more MP.
- Re-purpose living shadow, make it grant a 3-5% extra damage to all our weaponskills or upgrade our weapon skills so we execute an special combo or something that make his duration feel more than being damage over time without any interaction with and by result make his representation on the Darkside gauge being usefull.
- Re-estructure the skills learning order so DRK learn early a usefull defensive buff before lvl 70 and make it better at those levels, make it learn stalwart soul way more early so we don't spend 72 levels spaming unleash at the same bring Dark missionary early like the rest of the tanks.
- Do something to Dark mind, the skill is really useless in practically most of the content, make it evolve to obliation or grant it a healing effect, just anything neutrat so we can use it more.
- Do something to the downtime of the job, is the worst gameplay experience of the game and is basiaclly the phase where DRK spend most of the time, doing only souleater combo for 45s is not fun.
- Do something with salted earth, his execution is worse and more limited.
- Rework Livind dead or grant tools to dealt with walking dead by ourself once for all please.
- More weaponskills, make Shadowbringer a weaponskill or bring back older ones, scourge, Power slash, anything that breack the enless souleater spam boredorm.
- Make all oGCD being part or contribute on something, make them being a proc of something or add effects that make them be more that simple skills that offers nothing but low/flat damage (Plunge, Carve and spit, Abyssal drain, salted earth, shadowbringer).
- Delete plunge and Living shadow's traits and make new ones that actually offer something more than just numbers up or extremly niche and useless effects, add true gameplay effects.
- Make TBN 100% grant Dark arts when the shield is consume by time or by breaking it and add a new defensive effect like a regen if the shield is succesfully breaked.
- And the most important one, have some real direction on the job, make it have unique gameplay mechanics, stop leaving it with just a combo and a bunch of fluff oGCD and a buff that keep hilmself, make his gauge mean something, make his skills feel conected make the job evolve with each expansion like BLM, DRG, PLD, RDM, ect, ect, make DRK tecnical and unique again.

I really will apreciate if DRK is rewoked and fixes all this points, happy new year all, for a better DRK for all.

[Sacrilegion]

DRK is a joke that has been beaten death, raised from the dead, and beaten again. Rpr exacerbated the joke to new levels of fuck you and if given mitigation, would make DRK utterly pointless. Stop putting the laziest procrastinator in charge of it who gets drunk every night and spits out some last minute bullshit. I don't care about a dps increase, it's a tank, not a dps. The reward for playing everything right should not be the bare minimum of what a tank is supposed to do. The pvp buff DRK got post SHB would make healers not hate us entirely. I want to play DRK and PLD interchangeably and as equals, but DRK is inferior as all hell and I can't bring myself to punish the healer (especially if it's a Sage or Scholar).

[Derio]

They had 6+ years to decide if they wanted to change LD. Despite all the negative feedback around it. I dont expect any changes to it anytime soon. If anything we should be striving for change we know can happen such as Blood weapon, sustain, dark mind and TBN.

[WhyAmIHere]

They had 6+ years to decide if they wanted to change LD. Despite all the negative feedback around it. I dont expect any changes to it anytime soon. If anything we should be striving for change we know can happen such as Blood weapon, sustain, dark mind and TBN.

I'm praying usage numbers are below acceptable limits (for once) and DRK finally just gets a rework.

[Sazuzaki]

I'm praying usage numbers are below acceptable limits (for once) and DRK finally just gets a rework.

Should be, DRK is the least played by over 40k compared to WAR, 20k compared to GNB. If this doesn't say they're doing something wrong, I don't know what will.

Take this with a grain of salt, as this is just coming from FFLogs.

[Shurrikhan]

Should be, DRK is the least played by over 40k compared to WAR, 20k compared to GNB. If this doesn't say they're doing something wrong, I don't know what will.

Take this with a grain of salt, as this is just coming from FFLogs.

I'm guessing the general playerbase gap would amount to a significantly lower percentage than it has produced from fflogs parse counts alone. That being said, if a DPS faced even the Extreme/NR content gap above, it wouldn't remotely worry the devs. I doubt this would be nearly enough of a red flag.

[Sazuzaki]

I'm guessing the general playerbase gap would amount to a significantly lower percentage than it has produced from fflogs parse counts alone.

That's why I said take it with a grain of salt. However, I'm fairly sure the majority of high-end content players do parse, so I would place my bets that SE does pay attention to how much said class is used in high-end content. I think FFLogs, least for NA, is not the worst thing to use when measuring how much a job is played.

That's why the most I'm expecting is some regen on Oblation, but I still have hope.

[WhyAmIHere]

Should be, DRK is the least played by over 40k compared to WAR, 20k compared to GNB. If this doesn't say they're doing something wrong, I don't know what will.

Take this with a grain of salt, as this is just coming from FFLogs.

numbers that bad aren't, sadly.
NIN's parse numbers for instance are, however. Expect a significant response on tuesday for NIN.

Now, what I will say is this is a limited scope. I'm sure SE also has metrics for total # of players leveling jobs, usage in high end duties, usage in dungeons for expert roulettes, and overall gleaming of PFs and paying attention to what tanks are in parties, as well as how many DRK's appear in duty finder.

EDIT::
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXMTLM19JZw
'member berries tastin' real good right about now.

[Sazuzaki]

numbers that bad aren't, sadly.
NIN's parse numbers for instance are, however. Expect a significant response on tuesday for NIN.

Now, what I will say is this is a limited scope. I'm sure SE also has metrics for total # of players leveling jobs, usage in high end duties, usage in dungeons for expert roulettes, and overall gleaming of PFs and paying attention to what tanks are in parties, as well as how many DRK's appear in duty finder.

Shhhhhhh I'm high on hopium rn...

PLEAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE YOSHI PLEASE LET AT LEAST THIS BE LOW ENOUGH

[Hazama999]

Checking in with my fellow ex-DRK mains.
How are y'all doing?
Personally been enjoying the hell out of RPR.