Dark Knight Rework: Dark Shield Mechanic

[Tunda]

Hello Warriors of Light,
I would like to thank Square Enix team for their work and passion for the game and I would like to give my ideas regarding reworking Tanks and tanks identity.

As previously I have shared my idea that tanks high DPS skills should be reactive skills with tank buster here is the summary of it:

Tank buster is a great mechanic that tanks can use it in their benefit..

my idea is to split tank buster into 2 types:

• Physical tank buster: if tank use the right tank buster mitigation it will reward tank with extra damage.
  
• Magical tank buster: if tank use the right tank buster mitigation it will reward team with extra mitigation.

While waiting for Dawntrail here is my idea of how to rework Dark knight:
Dark Knight overview:
Dark knight is a knight that uses great sword for heavy hitting attack while darkness trades its hp with darkness shield that can be converted to damage and darkness blessing will heal him if done correctly.

Passive:

Each time dark knight got hit by enemy it will give 30% of damage received as darkness shield (which is unique shield that will not be go beyond max hp and damage received will prioritize darkness shield), any shield received from healer will be converted to darkness shield.
Basically, no shields are allowed to dark knight other than darkness shields.





1 2 3 single target & 1 2 AOE combos will give 320 (70%) potency darkness shield and 80 (30%) potency heal of the damage delt (if hp is 100% it will sacrifice dark knight hp portion of hp to darkness shield) and gain mana.