No point to magic only mitigation

[HyonaCookie]

I don't see why magic only mitigation still exists when magic damage rarely happens in content, especially trash packs of dungeons where mitigation is most needed. Magic only mitigation just means there's one less mitigation in the long run and makes people forget about it entirely. They should be changed to mitigate all damage or be allowed to also mitigate a bit of physical damage.

[Connor]

Isn’t magic damage the most commonly used for a large amount of bosses? As a Scholar I can find tons of opportunities to give Fey Illumination’s magic defense boost to the party.

…it doesn’t really do anything (5% lol), but I still feel like there’s tons of stuff that does magic damage. Though I couldn’t say whether that applied to certain things like tankbusters (they could mostly be physical maybe idk)

[Alice_Rivers]

I'm pretty sure a good 80%, maybe more, of ranged enemies in this game are magic damage. I don't pay too much attention to bosses but I'm pretty sure most stacks are also magic damage.

[LilimoLimomo]

I can see a game where having some abilities that mitigate physical damage and some that mitigate magical damage could be interesting. But in my experience playing Dark Knight, it does just feel like the other tanks got consistent abilities while I got the ability that doesn't work sometimes. If some had phys and some had magic, it would probably feel better. But right now it just feels like magic mitigation means you got the short end of the stick.

[TaleraRistain]

I can see a game where having some abilities that mitigate physical damage and some that mitigate magical damage could be interesting. But in my experience playing Dark Knight, it does just feel like the other tanks got consistent abilities while I got the ability that doesn't work sometimes. If some had phys and some had magic, it would probably feel better. But right now it just feels like magic mitigation means you got the short end of the stick.

Gunbreaker is in the same boat. Heart of Light is only magic. Really hurt in 10s with a DRK OT.

[Connor]

I can see a game where having some abilities that mitigate physical damage and some that mitigate magical damage could be interesting. But in my experience playing Dark Knight, it does just feel like the other tanks got consistent abilities while I got the ability that doesn't work sometimes. If some had phys and some had magic, it would probably feel better. But right now it just feels like magic mitigation means you got the short end of the stick.

I honestly can’t remember which expansion it was, maybe Heavensward or Stormblood, but I think at one point they wanted to carve out a niche for DRK as ‘the magic defense tank’. Like, they wanted it to be a ‘specialist’ for taking magic damage. Obviously, that didn’t work and people just got annoyed because they could go Paladin and mitigate either kinds of damage (i don’t remember what warrior did at that point lol). So they kinda dropped that whole angle for Dark Knight, but certain older skills like Dark Mind were never updated properly to reflect that and exist as ‘hold-overs’ from that idea.

[Bellybell]

I honestly can’t remember which expansion it was, maybe Heavensward or Stormblood, but I think at one point they wanted to carve out a niche for DRK as ‘the magic defense tank’. Like, they wanted it to be a ‘specialist’ for taking magic damage. Obviously, that didn’t work and people just got annoyed because they could go Paladin and mitigate either kinds of damage (i don’t remember what warrior did at that point lol). So they kinda dropped that whole angle for Dark Knight, but certain older skills like Dark Mind were never updated properly to reflect that and exist as ‘hold-overs’ from that idea.

Eden 5 Ramuh was auto with magic damage, that's where Dark Mind actually useful. I don't believe we have another one like that tho XD

[Alice_Rivers]

I guess they could have properly gone down the route of DRK having separate but stronger physical and magical mits but that'd be either short changing them on mits or adding button bloat to the job. It would also require DRK players to pay attention to what does what damage but that's a slightly different topic.

[Astronis]

I guess they could have properly gone down the route of DRK having separate but stronger physical and magical mits but that'd be either short changing them on mits or adding button bloat to the job. It would also require DRK players to pay attention to what does what damage but that's a slightly different topic.

DRK players already have to pay attention to damage types because of Dark Mind and Dark Missionary. At least in Dawntrail dungeons, they added a few trash packs that do heavy magic damage, which is kind of neat as far as letting good DRKs show off a bit.

I wouldn't mind if both skills got a smaller physical damage mit added to them just so they'd be useful more often.

[localareanetwork]

Have you ever done any raids like at all? Aside from fringe cases like this tier where Black cat and Brute bomber are very physical based, as well as one raidwide from P11S, and some tankbusters, almost everything else is magic damage..