Dark Knight Megathread

[Shurrikhan]

I also am just generally not a fan of people who are in favor of more homogenization, especially for tanks.

But, Living Shadow being [to DRK] a sole partial-uptime damage buff (that therefore has inherent, if modest, interaction with the rest of DRK's kit) on a flexible CD is already less homogeneous than it being a DoT on a flexible CD. Even if you allow for variable consumption and thereby duration on the DoT, that's already been done.

A flexibly timed damage buff via gauge spending would be something unique to the game, possibly allowing DRK its own damage-windows that would rotate non-rigidly around the 2-minute raid buffs cycle; even a flexibly-duration DoT, though, is just MCH Turret/Queen (i.e., a DoT with a minimum cost and, at best, a separate maximum cost). It's been done.

And at present, that "unique" Living Shadow DoT... is just Sonic Break on a longer CD. That's not somehow better than a flexibly timable damage amp window. At least the latter has inherent kit interaction.