Dark Knight Megathread

[DRKoftheAzure]

DRK already lead in APM... in HW. That's been part of its gimmick from its literal inception.

Okay, that was MOSTLY because of Parry builds but that was VERY inconsistent, and less Dark Arts that cause the high APM, and maybe Dark Dance and Dark Passenger Evasion bonuses.

There is also significant differences between how/where that APM is paced and how that affects playflow. GNB has, on average, an APM between DRG and SAM, yet its flow of that APM is not much like either.

So what's the APM for Dark Knight, Dragoon and Samurai right now? Because the average APM for Gunbreaker if you factor in Reprisal, 2-3 Heart of Corundum, and 1 Aurora for defensives, to about 45 APM on average, Paladin is slightly lower than (with room for error on APM due to frequency auto-attacks for Paladin) and that's if you doing casual content without using any other defensive cooldown.

Which has, what, exactly, with wanting to make most of DRK's offensive oGCDs NOW into GCDs?

There is no Dark Arts. This is not Stormblood. You have not suggested a (restrained) reinclusion of Dark Arts. You have not suggested a (restrained) reinclusion of any part of Stormblood DRK. So how would Stormblood Dark Arts be remotely relevant to this?

Because I am so fed up with how Dark Knight plays right now that I don't care restraining myself, and you are not helping in the slightest.

You suggested that every TBN, from which you had already removed the MP cost, should freely grant 3 Edges' worth of resources that have yet additional tack-on effects.

How would that not entice using TBN as near as pop-ably possible to on CD? It would be a defensive tool only as a bottleneck and an offensive tool first and foremost.

Again, that's says more about you wasting a single defensive cooldown that has the potential for 6 GCDs worth of free big damage for, otherwise, you only get 2 GCDs worth of free big damage, which is where the Quietus and Abyssal Drain reworks come in, for player like you... Though I do understand the concerns of it being overpowered, but the big damage makes up for the lack of oGCDs, something you CLEARLY did not understand...