Dark Knight Megathread

[RyuDragnier]

As much as I'd like to make it interesting, I sadly do not trust the devs to do it without absolutely making the move useless. They have a poor track record with DRK for the most part and can't be trusted. I still think the Living Dead fix was a fluke.

[Marxam]

As much as I'd like to make it interesting, I sadly do not trust the devs to do it without absolutely making the move useless. They have a poor track record with DRK for the most part and can't be trusted. I still think the Living Dead fix was a fluke.

Not necessarily a fluke because a fluke implies you were attempting to achieve the desired result but fail continuously only to "luck" out one time. It's just pure incompetence that something like that stayed in the game after 4.0. At least in 4.0 you could use AD spam to heal yourself up to a respectable amount where your healers might only need to toss a single ogcd to remove the effect. Dungeon pulls are really the only time invuls get used outside of savage.

DRK is just designed with 3.0 in mind in a game thats no longer in 3.0 and is just a casualty of poor design. Salted earth was a good example. Players complained that placing the ground aoe was tricky since the cursor had no range. 6.0 fixed the cursor to limit is max range and SE was reduced to a point blank aoe. The issue was with the ground target having no cap, but they fixed that so why does SE only place the aoe at your feet now?

[Lyth]

I'd prefer to see any additional self-healing just be built in to existing offensive abilities.

I'd really like the dev team to try something daring next expansion and try to just improve on tanks' offensive gameplay and mobility. The defensive kits have been expanded on enough.

[Kalaam]

Having it build into existing offensive abilities will just make it even more similar to warrior though

[Luizgazen]

what about getting healing on salted earth ticks on enemies? would also help in giving some much needed values to that skill

[Kalaam]

It'd be good in dungeons but pretty bad on single target though, plus if the enemy moves for a mechanic it'd be wasted.

[Luizgazen]

yeah, but do we really need more in boss fights? DRK is already a powerhouse with its dps for savage, if we add too much single target sustain it could get way too much, dungeon pulls on the other hand are exactly were we are so badly lacking

[RyuDragnier]

yeah, but do we really need more in boss fights? DRK is already a powerhouse with its dps for savage, if we add too much single target sustain it could get way too much, dungeon pulls on the other hand are exactly were we are so badly lacking

Then they need to change the recharge timer to 30s on AD and CnS when AD is used, and up the healing potency per enemy hit to 400. This gives us one strong burst heal in dungeons, and speeds its use while not really effecting our single target game much. That or the cowards need to put it back under MP costs so we can spam it if needed while in dungeons.

[ItsUrBoi]

Many posts talk about Sole Survivor being useless in today's game, and that's true, but I did post a long while back a possible solution.

Sole Survivor, 90s CD, 15 second duration.
->Marks yourself with the Sole Survivor effect.
->Sole Survivor effect: Compiles all of received and dealt damage. When the effect expires, you heal and gain blood according to the compiled amount. Pressing the ability again ends the effect early.

[Briarthorn]

Many posts talk about Sole Survivor being useless in today's game, and that's true, but I did post a long while back a possible solution.

Sole Survivor, 90s CD, 15 second duration.
->Marks yourself with the Sole Survivor effect.
->Sole Survivor effect: Compiles all of received and dealt damage. When the effect expires, you heal and gain blood according to the compiled amount. Pressing the ability again ends the effect early.

While i like these kinds of abilities, suggesting a fix that works 100% differently is suggesting another ability. Sole survivor was about gaining off the death of a marked target.

I only bring this up in the same sense that it would be saying delirium the weaponskill is not delirium the inner release equivalent, and people were talking about the mark.

Perhaps a nitpick, but just to keep conversations straight.