Dark Knight Megathread

[Oizen]

..Why? So you would rather have a boring over-glorified DoT that has 0 interaction with the rest of the kit instead of something that actually creates kit cohesion?

Because a plus damage buff a plus damage bufskill is inherently the least interesting, most boring thing you can give a job.
I agree Living Shadow isn't much, but it has more flavor and niche uses than making DRK hit three self buffs every 2 minutes. Didn't mean to imply that BW or Delrium were damage buffs, just hitting 3 self buffs every burst window seems monotonous. And no pointing out that its a DoT doesn't make me hate it, I don't even hate Salted Earth. DoTs are fine to me, and have some useful application in underappreciated content in this game.
Meanwhile the "kit cohesion" you're talking about is literally, press button to do more damage for 20 seconds, bet you it would even have a 2 minute cooldown and line up perfectly with buff windows. Which in my honest opinion has been the bane of job design for all of Endwalker, but thats another discussion.

It also wouldn't make much sense from a balance perspective. The reason WAR and DRK don't have +20% damage skills like PLD and GNB is because they have +10% damage buffs with 100% uptime.

I also am just generally not a fan of people who are in favor of more homogenization, especially for tanks. People cry about DRK having so many removed skills, yet when it comes to talking about its balance they want to remove more skills and give it skills that already exist on other tanks? Thats what got us here in the first place.

Expand whats already there rather than cutting more away to make the job even more inline with the others.