Dark Knight Megathread

[Griphyt]

Variety in animation
Please, if you add skills that you can throw 3 times or more in a row, they may be different animations or attack moves, for example the WAR, PLD, DRK have an ability that can be repeated several times it would be good if they had at least two or three animation variations so that a skill is not so boring thanks.

[Zairava]

I wonder what DRK players' thoughts would be if the devs scrapped Plunge altogether and gained a movement tool that wasn't tied to damage, like Ingress/Egress? I feel like tanks are well behind the curve when it comes to mobility tools.

I don't mind gap closers having damage tied to them, I do mind when it becomes a "use in your rotation" otherwise you lose overall dps. The simple fix would be to just tie them to the GCD, since at that point, they would be specifically used as a gap closer. It goes without saying that this change ideally would not cancel where you currently are in your combo.

Variety in animation
Please, if you add skills that you can throw 3 times or more in a row, they may be different animations or attack moves, for example the WAR, PLD, DRK have an ability that can be repeated several times it would be good if they had at least two or three animation variations so that a skill is not so boring thanks.

Honestly, Paladin gets a pass for me simply because of the confiteor combo.

Fell Cleave is leagues more satisfying than Bloodspiller ever was, even before the change to spam it until we're beyond sick of it. WAR also gets Primal Rend. It kinda fits WAR's identity.

DRK, on the other hand, has plenty of animations they removed that everyone loved that they could use for multiple purposes, so they have options.

[Oizen]

I'd only be fine with it if DRK got some other 2x charge 30s oGCD.

Theres already enough downtime after a burst window as it is.

[Zairava]

I'd only be fine with it if DRK got some other 2x charge 30s oGCD.

Theres already enough downtime after a burst window as it is.

Agree, but I'd say it needs something on a 30s CD regardless. Plunge doesn't really help the downtime feel any less boring

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

Ngl I feel like Warrior did the gapcloser conundrum the best before Endwalker with Onslaught being close to if not straight up damage neutral vs standard Fell Cleave usage.

Gapclosers having damage isn't a bad thing, but being completely unrestricted is another issue. Which is why I don't understand why they made Onslaught simply Plunge copy #3 instead of making system changes to make the other gapclosers more like Onslaught. (side rant, it made Bozja's Lost Blood Rage complete garbage with that change)

Or giving gapclosers an effect like "can't be enhanced by damage boosting effects", which would be "boring" but would solve the necessity of pressing them in buff windows for optimal play without sacrificing the damage portion of it.

[Vallerie]

Oh, I just had an exceedingly stupid idea.

Enhanced Unmend II
Salt and Darkness (or could be plunge) grants Unravel, enhancing next unmend
Unraveling unmend potency - 500
Generates 20 blood and 600 mp

[Mekhana]

Oh, I just had an exceedingly stupid idea.

Enhanced Unmend II
Salt and Darkness (or could be plunge) grants Unravel, enhancing next unmend
Unraveling unmend potency - 500
Generates 20 blood and 600 mp

At least that way I'd be able to deal with early pullers in hunts. Do actually want.

[Oizen]

I don't actually hate Enhanced Unmend, but it is baffling that they made this trait in the same expansion where they decided that all bosses needed arena wide hitboxes and melee downtime should never happen.

[Absurdity]

I don't actually hate Enhanced Unmend, but it is baffling that they made this trait in the same expansion where they decided that all bosses needed arena wide hitboxes and melee downtime should never happen.

They probably still think that tanks will just stand in Narnia for mechanics, spamming their ranged attack, for "safety" or something.

[RyuDragnier]

I don't actually hate Enhanced Unmend, but it is baffling that they made this trait in the same expansion where they decided that all bosses needed arena wide hitboxes and melee downtime should never happen.

Because they don't know what to do with DRK, they never have, same with SCH and SMN. That's why you see them constantly try to remove things from SCH just to get massive pushback, and why SMN keeps changing. From what I heard the original creator of ARR/HW SCH, SMN, and DRK left the dev team in HW...which does actually coincide with when they started making questionable decisions with the jobs.