Dark Knight Megathread

[Anahlise_Auhn_Giinslai]

I hope i don't make you cry ^^
Yeah my expectations are fairly low too but i wont deny i apreciate that there is a 0.1% of having DRK being that job meaning they are going to rework it as how it was. Im nopt gonna lie, i know SCH and AST as been asking for big reworks too in the fairy and the card system and such and they are the ones that are probably get it due the healer role redistribution but i hope this 2 years of DRK gameplay identity complains mean something at the end.

That was the weird thing, to me... "while there ARE, we can not tell you which job it is." ..."ARE" implies plural, but "job it is" is clearly singular, so there was either a translation error, or it was said in a misleading manner on prupose... So now I am thinking to myself: which one is it, then? one job or more than one job?, singular or plural? / That one thing is going to not stop to bother me, now.. until there is a clarification. That said, more than one job would be ideal, say.. the top 5 worst(in the common opinion of players) subclasses of our 18 Subclasses, Dark Knight included, being the plural number of subclasses that got a redesign...

[shao32]

That was the weird thing, to me... "while there ARE, we can not tell you which job it is." ..."ARE" implies plural, but "job it is" is clearly singular, so there was either a translation error, or it was said in a misleading manner on prupose... So now I am thinking to myself: which one is it, then? one job or more than one job?, singular or plural? / That one thing is going to not stop to bother me, now.. until there is a clarification. That said, more than one job would be ideal, say.. the top 5 worst(in the common opinion of players) subclasses of our 18 Subclasses, Dark Knight included, being the plural number of subclasses that got a redesign...

I guess there is going to be 2 very long months until we know.

[Colt47]

There are some pretty crazy animations already in game that people sort of blot out during rotations. Dark Knight has a ton more bling in the graphics department so it wouldn't surprise me if that is simply an upgraded TBN or a similar power to TBN.

I do sort of hope that they get around to adding a buff symbol for when you have the power gauge going. It seems odd that warrior has storms eye showing up there, but dark knight you need to completely depend on the job related icon.

[Kalaam]

Upgrading TBN might be an issue, if it's more shield it makes it harder to proc Dark Arts (unless that mechanic is changed).
Also just "It gives 35% HP as shield" instead of 30% is cool but...kind of boring ?

[jetfire117]

I genuinely hope that they're still working in progress on DRK. Or that Delirium is basically like back in Stormblood. When the camera focuses in on DRK again, it seems they've used Quietus indicated by the animation. It also has been only used once, which perhaps means that the spamming has ended in 6.0, all in all that's just my thoughts however; take it with a grain of salt. What all of this ends up being will only be certain once we see the Job trailer.

I was looking back at that part of the clip and maybe there's a sneak peak at another new skill? It's right before the BLMs cast the fires, looks like the DRK has some darkness orb going on. It really could just be edge of shadow though lol, when I look at it again. September can't come soon enough.

[Shurrikhan]

will only be certain once we see the Job trailer.

Not like the ShB Job trailer's Living Shadow ever had anyone in the first half...

[Recon1o6]

I dont think the blackest night should be moved down, because there's damn good lore reasons to keep it at 70 (its a shield made out of love btw, that's why its so strong) rather I would suggest making the lower levels and the mitigation tools dark knight has actually worth something and make the blackest night less frequent. Its an example of a good capstone. Example: shadowskin getting blood price's effect.

Dark needs a lot of love other than those
-a free flow combo system including the return of its old unique abilities to make an uptime heavy combo tank we all loved
-much improved sustain and slight damage buff to match or exceed the other tanks if uptime is rewarded
-living dead fixed to grant true invulnerability, no longer kill the player and can be used/recovered from use by the dark knight alone, no more benediction
-levelling fixes. there shouldn't be huge gaps like 30+ levels with a single aoe step

[Kabooa]

Not like the ShB Job trailer's Living Dead ever had anyone in the first half...

Warrior wasting a GCD of IR.

[Shin96]

What I hope to see in 6.0:

Abyssal Drain: Your lower-level aoe rotation. Unleash - Abyssal Drain. Give it a reasonable healing potency; your HP being the primary focus in lower content.

Stalwart Soul: Your higher-level aoe rotation: Unleash - Stalwart Soul - Quietus. The latter being an MP resource spender used in higher-leveled content.

Defense: A mix of both defensive cooldowns as well as skills that reward you for playing risky; receiving damage rewards you with additional resources such as MP.

Offense: Delirium shouldn't be an inferior Inner Release, instead Dark Arts needs to be entirely reworked. Dark Knight needs to impress with unique animations and style.

Dance: The underlying basis of what the playstyle could be is like a dance. It's not about reaching the climax and spending all of your resources right away, but the constant madness of being overwhelmed by "Darkness" with it being a struggle between sanity and insanity; i.e. playing this job well gives you a very satisfying feeling of staying in control. In short: Top your performance with combos upon combos to feel an overwhelming sense of power with as little repitition as possible.

Essentially DRK is your Dark Souls of tanks in FFXIV. I'd personally make it a job that's somewhat experimental in nature as well as demanding.

[Shurrikhan]

Warrior wasting a GCD of IR.

A player clipping animations in a job trailer: physical pain for viewers.

A player not clipping animations in actual gameplay: physical pain for viewers.

Sadly, just the nature of having a 2.5s GCD but only .6s (plus twice one's ping after queues) animation locks.