Dark Knight Megathread

[Nyarlha]

Nah I'm pretty sure Delirium is on a 60 second recast period. Only abilities confirmed to have charges so far for tanks is gap closer.

Wait a second, are you seriously complaining about stuff without knowing how things work currently?

Delirium is currently a 90sec CD. I'll point you to the job guide if you want to learn DRK skills : https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/jobguide/darkknight/ .

[Benn]

Nah I'm pretty sure Delirium is on a 60 second recast period. Only abilities confirmed to have charges so far for tanks is gap closer.

In any way that does not mean nerf especially if other OGCDs will be changed which we dont know. Having burst windows more often is definitely more engaging than having it only once per 90s and then spam 3 combo only.

[Nyarlha]

In any way that does not mean nerf especially if other OGCDs will be changed which we dont know. Having burst windows more often is definitely more engaging than having it only once per 90s and then spam 3 combo only.

It also means an increase in DPS as your own burst will naturally line up with raid CD every time now.

[Benn]

It also means an increase in DPS as your own burst will naturally line up with raid CD every time now.

Yup. We dont know all changes yet, we dont know if they tweaked cooldowns and potency numbers etc. It's too early to call anything nerf without knowing all picture.

My biggest hope is they will fix Living Dead...

[ArianeEwah]

It also means an increase in DPS as your own burst will naturally line up with raid CD every time now.

Not necessarily, from the screenshoted tooltips from SMN and RPR, we can assume, many 180s->120s burst buffs have been nerfed from 5% to 3%; even tho RPR is new, the numbers are suspiciously identical.

[MagiusNecros]

Not necessarily, from the screenshoted tooltips from SMN and RPR, we can assume, many 180s->120s burst buffs have been nerfed from 5% to 3%; even tho RPR is new, the numbers are suspiciously identical.

Most burst CDS are dropping down to 60s and 120s come 6.0. The 5% to 3% nerf is going to balance the DPS across all classes. At least I think it is.

[Axxion]

It also means an increase in DPS as your own burst will naturally line up with raid CD every time now.

Asking you a legit question. What are the other cds that will fall under the 90 secs? The only one i can recall is brotherhood. Im just am wondering that is all.

[Nyarlha]

Asking you a legit question. What are the other cds that will fall under the 90 secs? The only one i can recall is brotherhood. Im just am wondering that is all.

The 90sec CDs in EW will be outliers. We already know Brotherhood went to 120sec and Riddle of Fire went to 60sec. Monk got a new 90sec Riddle of Wind CD (50% auto attack speed boost) apparently. BLM Ley Lines are still 90sec too.

Their goal was for most of them to align on 60/120sec windows instead of having some jobs somehow having their burst desynced from everybody else.

[Shin96]

The question is what would they gain in reworking DRK to be specifically more interesting? It's blatantly obvious they have no desire to interact with the tank playerbase on a whole.

What they did in 5.0 was purely intentional, and so was the similiarity between Inner Release and Delirium. Much to its dismay, they are very clear in their approach albeit in a very non-direct way. What they are trying to do is lowering the skill ceiling to make tanks accessible to everyone. You could argue DRK is an alternative to your 3 other tanks in regards to more interesting gameplay, but that isn't true anymore and most likely will stay that way.

I think what people truly dislike is the fact you took a job with its own identity and completly stripped it naked in a completly unreasonable fashion. Why the developers are doing this is beyond me, but it probably goes to show that they don't care about our opinions as much as we would like to admit.

With all of that said, your HW DRK is a relic of the past. A time where developers generally could be more experimental, because the prospect of losing millions of players wasn't there at the time. They won't miss out on the sweet bucks guys, can't blame em' either.

[WhyAmIHere]

havent caught up but something that irks me to no end is Dark Arts. HW and SB it was an oGCD you'd use to augment your next action. What irks me about it is that players complained that it was too spammy, and instead of fixing it they just axed the whole thing entirely.

SAM doesn't complain about having to use Kaiten before Iaijutsu, because outside of Iaijutsu there's no real reason as far as I know to use it unless you just wanna *really* empower your next hit. To me it's more focused and narrow in scope, and not a button to press needlessly as you've other gauge spenders to use.

GNB and continuation. it's an oGCD used only after Gnashing Fang and those combos, so again it's more focused and narrow in it's scope. Come Endwalker, all that's changing to it from the job action video is Burst Strike is getting a combo into it.

What's my point? Instead of putting in any real work to make DRK work with it's old kit and one of it's most complained about abilities, they put that work into designing a similar gimmick for other jobs and just left DRK to become gutted, and filled in the void with a job that at that time DRK players brought up ceaselessly: WAR.
It's a shame.