How fitting

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I honestly don't think there's any need to "give up on" HP-sacrificing skills/mechanics, especially if DRK also has access to lifesteal effects (and all the more so if they're very on demand, such as through a bankable Blood Weapon or whatnot). Complement the HP-sacrifice mechanic with even just, say, a single auto-save mechanic, like Living Dead activating automatically if you're struck by fatal damage (with 5+ minutes before that effect is available again), allowing you to essentially fall into negative HP for up to 10s and finally putting that long-requested 3D timer above your head, and I don't think healers would be jumping out of their skin over DRK being able to sacrifice HP.

By already given up on it, I just mean that I have no faith and little hope, that FFXIV's Dark Knight would ever be like that, even though it is what I want the most for FFXIV Dark Knight... I even have a extensive written digital note-folder, full of my ideas to re-design FFXIV Dark Knight, for it to have Blood Magic and self-sacrificial Blood Magic that work around each other, paired with offensive and defensive Dark Magic, and physical GreatSword artes.

While.. to speak of "like Living Dead activating automatically if you're struck by fatal damage", that is the exact way that I thought to, and made a idea to, re-design Living Dead, heh... I remember that I posted my Living Dead re-design idea in a thread about Living Dead, and I.. forgot whether or not I re-posted that in the recent "Dark Knight MegaThread".

Again, I just can't think of that as any more sensible than "only one healer should ever have shields/HoTs/on-ally buffs".

I have no idea why those people think that way, either.. I have just ran into some of them...enough times to think that there must be at least a fair number of them around.

For WAR, it's actually more written into the flavor text / theme than for DRK. It's literally... the thrill of combat invigorating them. The more they can do, the more they can sustain themselves.

That is.. a fair point. I never thought of the adrenaline rush theme as convert-damage-into-HP, and thought of it more like Thrill of Battle and Equilibrium, but that makes a bit of sense...

On that note, though, there's also little to no magic sword of vampirism/blood magic hoodoo in DRK's questlines. It's more about the psychology of it all, somewhat mirroring but still quite distinct from WAR's.

To be fair...I admit, FF Franchise Dark Knight never had Blood Magic in name, just Dark Magic, and/or Dark Magic in name, that is Blood Magic in function, and then we have FFXIV Dark Knight; which does not have any Blood Magic at all, as you type, and only has the Dark Magic... but, I see no reason why FFXIV Dark Knight could not have Blood Magic, at least in function, similar to the other versions, as well.. unless too many FFXIV Dark Knight players would be against FFXIV Dark Knight being more like the other Dark Knight versions.