Dark Knight Megathread

[shao32]

It'll take them decades to reinvent the wheel, that's for sure. While I'm ok with these changes, DRK still has large issues that overshadow these gains. The only big gain that was worth noting was BW becoming 5 Stacks(removes Ping dependancy) and LD having a MASSIVE drain effect(1500 potency - but still need to see per swing; if it's per swing, then basically healers have no more to fear LD and panic).

Don't get me wrong this changes are nice, i just reread my post and sounds very spitfull lol.
The only changes i actually apreciate is stalwart soul and living dead bcs was a long standing issue, the changes of bloodweapon are nice buuuuuut those changes wouln't have been needed if they didn't nerf the skill in the first place so it's the normal trending with DRK and i can't be gratefull about the change bcs of it.

[Hazama999]

Looking at the changes they made to Living Dead, I have to say... mannnn I really do not envy SE's position.

You can almost hear them straining as they bend over backwards trying to come up with a way to keep the ability "in-flavor" with DRK while at the same time bring it up to par with other tanks' invuln skills.

[LalafellDown]

I love the living dead change. We’re zombies and zombies need to eat to gain health. It make sense and it’s a awesome change.

[baklava151]

Looking at the changes they made to Living Dead, I have to say... mannnn I really do not envy SE's position.

You can almost hear them straining as they bend over backwards trying to come up with a way to keep the ability "in-flavor" with DRK while at the same time bring it up to par with other tanks' invuln skills.

Honestly I'm glad they did, they could have easily just made it Holmgang and called it a day. As far as I can tell it'll be pretty good too, hope I'm not proven wrong when we actually get to try it.

[Dingodrole]

People should actually be glad that they listened to the community and feedbacks, rather than being grumpy and pointing out more what did not changed.

Blood Weapon being a 5 charge now, will leads to a big change :
- No more SkS dependant
- Not missing a GCD while using AoE
- Welcome people with ping ! Now you can play the job without a " huge " ( and frustrating ) feeling
- Can use it pre-pull for certain niche scenario
- In case of emergency, you can now triple weave and still not be highly punished

It's surprising how people doesn't seems hype about LD, even though this Forum cried about it for so long. The scary part was when they mentionned the healing tied to Walking Dead during the LL, WITHOUT mentionning the fact that cleansing WD will not make the invuln disappear.
LD went from being so annoying to use in most cases, to be REALLY strong, and undirectly " buffing " Benediction, since now this tool is no more the " DRK's dedicated life support ".

Yeah, we still need other changes, on some stuff, but the most important changes were made, now give it time and see if they keep the momentum. Oblation still need to either be stronger, or a change.

[SylviaCrystal]

Sorry, I know I should be more hyped and thankful for the changes to LD and BW, but seeing the PvP toolkit got me REALLY hyped.

I think PvP is dumb, not for game design reasons but for player mentality. Some people lose a single encounter and just give up, standing afk at the respawn point. Most would rather hunt down the other teams instead of doing the objectives. It's awful, unless you're VERY lucky to be matched with a team that actually cares. Yeah, I don't like PvP, but that being said... it seems to be the only way I'll ever have fun with DRK.

TBN not tied to damage resources, you now manage your HP instead of MP (feels more in line with the DRK lore tbh), a badass invul with a badass name (Eventide), Salted Earth actually contributing to tanking, a gap closer that inflicts Sole Survivor... Damn. I wish they'd let the PvP team work on PvE.

[HyonaCookie]

Eventide looks great, but it would suck if a PvE invuln had damage attached to it like that. And I highly doubt SE would give us two invulns. But it wouldn't surprise me if when working on PvP DRK they developed this solution to LD.

[Xrison]

Sorry, I know I should be more hyped and thankful for the changes to LD and BW, but seeing the PvP toolkit got me REALLY hyped.

I think PvP is dumb, not for game design reasons but for player mentality. Some people lose a single encounter and just give up, standing afk at the respawn point. Most would rather hunt down the other teams instead of doing the objectives. It's awful, unless you're VERY lucky to be matched with a team that actually cares. Yeah, I don't like PvP, but that being said... it seems to be the only way I'll ever have fun with DRK.

TBN not tied to damage resources, you now manage your HP instead of MP (feels more in line with the DRK lore tbh), a badass invul with a badass name (Eventide), Salted Earth actually contributing to tanking, a gap closer that inflicts Sole Survivor... Damn. I wish they'd let the PvP team work on PvE.

Fingers crossed the new PvP toolkit is a way for the devs to test an entirely new DRK build before releasing it.

[Runeslayer]

I want to say that all these changes are a step in the right direction, and if, IF, the dev team can continue on this path they'll very quickly be in good standing with the DRK community once more.
I will remain cautiously optimistic for the future, because there are still fundamental issues with the class that needs addressing and they SHOULD NOT stop scanning these threads with a microscope to really bring the class in line. This is before even reworking how the class works.

Stay vocal, fellow strugglers.

[SylviaCrystal]

I went solo with level sync into S1T7 and recorded this little demonstration of Living Dead in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x98SWsU5C-M