Dark Knight - Possible "Future upgrades" patches

[VictoriaLuv]

Hi. How are you? I've recently joined the game with many of my friends and so took the time ask the majority of my dark knight friends what do they think their class needs. Please note this is the future speaking, and I wouldn't like see these all put in game at once. If you take time to read this then thank you . Also pardon my English. it isn't my first language but I am really trying my best to communicate, so forgive me beforehand if say something and misunderstand it.

New Dark Knight additional effects - Death and Doom -
Death - when placing status effect death upon the target - they take 5% more damage from all allies in your party. after 30 seconds death will be consumed and deal additional 350-800 potency
Doom - Ability with doom effect instantly restores HP or MP and reduces 30 second time limit by 2 seconds

New Living Dead

Grants the effect of Living Dead. makes you immune to all damage but you're not immune to self damage you deal
Living Dead Duration: 8-10 seconds
While under the effect of Walking Dead. even though you don't take damage, all spells that you cast and cost MP cost double or triple and will cost HP instead or self damage.

New Blood Weapon - Increases Blood Gauge by 10 and restores MP upon landing weapon skills or spells.
Additional Effect: the next spell or melee attack will be a direct hit or crit. and restore your health and mp
Effect does not stack when hitting multiple targets with a single attack.
Duration: 10s -> 12s


Souleater -
Delivers an attack with a potency of 100.
Combo Action: Syphon Strike
Combo Potency: 400
Combo Bonus: Doom - Restores Health and MP 600-800 -2 seconds on death
Combo Bonus: Increases Blood Gauge by 20

Accursed Spirit
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 180 to all nearby enemies.
Combo Action: Stalwart Soul
Combo Potency: 300
Combo Bonus: Doom
Combo Bonus: Increases Blood Gauge by 20

New Skill -

Oblivion - Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 550-900 potency always crits
Addtitional Effect: Death - Deal additional 350-800 damage targets after 30 seconds while target takes 5% damage from all targets attacking
Consumes Darkside. costs 3000 MP darkside cannot be active while death is on the target

Scourge - Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 550 All Targets always crits
Additional Effect - Places Death status effect on all targets hit.
shares cooldown with oblivion
Consumes Darkside costs 3000 MP darkside cannot be active while death is on the target

Shadow Wall Changes -
decreases Damage take by 30% this last up to 15-18 seconds. every 2-3 seconds you will pulse dark magic dealing 55 potency all targets within 6 yards. until cooldown is consumed. gain 1 blood gauge for each target hit

Dark Mind - Changes -
Dark Mind - restores targets MP and lowers damage they take from magic effects
Dark Mind - Comes 2 Charges
Dark Mind - Can be placed on party member

The Blackest Night -
now wired to Dark mind. who ever has the has dark mind. also gain the Blackest Night

Abyss Drain - Has 2 Charges (has its radius yards)

[MagiusNecros]

The only upgrade I think DRK will have to look forward to is Hard Slash Potency being increased by 10. Please look forward to it. : /

[Garnix]

That's not an upgrade that's another job. (not saying it's a bad thing though)

[NeoDivinity]

hmm potencys are kinda weird since we don't know how damage is working on Endwalker, also lets be honest All DRK need is some Convalescence attached to LD and new combo that is not Inner Release. Oh yeah anything they do with Blood Weapon is good, that thing is pure garb.

Also this Shadow Wall change is unrealistic, PLD used to have Sentinel holding 40% damage and got nerfed cuz was too strong, they'll never add it to DRK who aready have TBN and also put a Vengeance like effect in AoE for fucking 20 seconds my friend.

[Axxion]

you might want to look into this thread

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...gathread/page8

[Anahlise_Auhn_Giinslai]

Mnh... As a big fan of the Dark Warrior(I mean a more than 30 years old fantasy archtype, not WAR clone), I do like the idea of to add Death Magic to the Dark Knight, but I am less confident in that some of those action affects feel like a little even more WAR clone, and also not certain about if the "DarkSide can not be active while death is active" part is a good idea...
Those two concerns aside, I do sort of like the core idea that this set of actions has for them.

[VictoriaLuv]

Mnh... As a big fan of the Dark Warrior(I mean a more than 30 years old fantasy archtype, not WAR clone), I do like the idea of to add Death Magic to the Dark Knight, but I am less confident in that some of those action affects feel like a little even more WAR clone, and also not certain about if the "DarkSide can not be active while death is active" part is a good idea...
Those two concerns aside, I do sort of like the core idea that this set of actions has for them.

well I kinda wanted see a life siphon ability on dark knight. watch is awesome sense they are two-handed weapon user. i don't mind that there is some synergy between dark knight and warrior. my main focus's with these collective suggestions keeping with class fantasy. watch allows them crit/dh whenever and heals them

even thou my shadow-wall suggestion may seem lot like vengeance on warrior - warriors every time they attack they counter with 55 potency. a dark knights is a pulsing aoe damage burns all targets surrounding the dark knight every 2-3 seconds with cure 3 range could even add that they gain gauge every time it deals damage allowing use of dark knights abilities more

also reason is that it balance issues . you basically make everyone in your party deal 5% more damage to target with death. if dark side was still active this mean deal 15% over all damage. I was worried that that make dark knight little broken. specially when you pop oblivion/scourge sense those abilities do S/A level tiers of darkness magic damage i was very careful with doom/death balancing however duration of death can be lowered to 18 seconds. however when death pops i feel it should do a lot of damage its like a time-bomb even though you complete a combo spend up the process.. so balancing the potency of this ability i choice the lowliest possible number on up that subject to change. I have other ideas for dark knight defensive cooldowns ill share later. I wanted capture the essense of death and doom magics without it being completely busted

what trying to do was tilt dark knight have more class depth. while keeping class . giving them more utility making sure that when life steal it doesn't piss off healers but at same time isn't really bad. making shadow-wall not basic. making dark mind useful making dark knights living dead. not so complex easier to use while keeping dark knight lore class intact

[Anahlise_Auhn_Giinslai]

[...]also reason is that it balance issues . you basically make everyone in your party deal 5% more damage to target with death. if dark side was still active this mean deal 15% over all damage. I was worried that that make dark knight little broken.[...]

This is not a issue, if you think about it, silly bunny... Dark Knight's DarkSide is the same as Warrior's Storm's Eye, a 10% damage buff kept always active, but despite that these two have that, GunBreaker, with no 10% damage buff kept active all of the time, still has a higher average PPS DPS than those two.

The effect of Death would be like a Blue Mage's Off-Guard or a Shinobi's Trick Attack, a temporary 5% increase in the damage dealt of the whole party, so the personal DPS at least, I have no idea about RDPS, but the personal DPS of a Dark Knight, would not be over-powered just because of that; there would.. rather.. be little difference, since the Death action is not a personal damage buff.