Dark Knight Megathread

[GoatOfWar]

I know you're on a crusade against warrior but let's not make up some weird myth that warrior players somehow caused Dark Knight's 5.0 rework that just turned it into Warrior-but-worse.

It's a genuine problem in need of push back.
Streamers steer community sentiment, and is what got us to where we are today.
War has historically cannibalised every single identity Drk ever had largely due to said streamers crying about Drk doing something remotely better than War.
The only times when they shut up is when Drk is inferior to War in every way like it is now.

[Colt47]

It's a genuine problem in need of push back.
Streamers steer community sentiment, and is what got us to where we are today.
War has historically cannibalised every single identity Drk ever had largely due to said streamers crying about Drk doing something remotely better than War.
The only times when they shut up is when Drk is inferior to War in every way like it is now.

The problem with DRK is that it is the only tank that needs to use Hyper Potions to survive in level 80 dungeons like the Final Days of Amaurot when you have a scholar healer and people are still learning the game. Heck, even if they know the game well healing a DRK in Final Days of Amaurot is a nightmare.

1) The fact it has so much going on compared to other tanks, like having two different resources and a shit ton of cooldowns to manage, makes it way too easy to forget to do something in a rotation. I don't care about "oh, you're not good enough" from people doing savage because that is BS. Savage is a structured fight where you expect to die and drill in when to use each thing, so in that environment it could be the most complicated piece of garbage on earth and it will still work. But the point is what they design HAS TO WORK for people leveling up in the game and handling the jobs.

1b) The devs are balancing damage based on using all of the kit, so if the job is more complicated to run than the other tanks and therefore has to do more to do the same thing as a simpler to run tank, what is the point to it even existing?

2) The devs need to figure out what the direction they want to go is. It can't really exist in this half foot in garbage design with the delirium energy management + cooldowns + having to deal with MP management + dealing with on the spot decision making between Blackest Night and doing a flood or wave of darkness. Especially since it can't even keep itself up during any of this decision making during high pressure moments, because it lacks any immediate self heals that don't involve group pulls. Even in group pulls, healing oneself up once from hitting 7 targets is nothing compared to a warrior with Bloodwhetting just mitigating everything and also self healing while aoeing multiple times over.