No point to magic only mitigation

[Oizen]

Dark Mind is either insanely broken or worthless. It being worthless is the price it pays for being the most busted cd in the game most of the time. It doesn't really bother me.

Missionary and Heart of Light are bigger issues.

[royox]

Most raid wide attacks are magical based....and OH BOY in Dawntrail they hit my poor SMN like trucks.

[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.

[Supersnow845]

Magical damage is far more common which invalidates part of this comment but the idea that dark missionary and heart of light are just completely inferior to shake it off and divine veil is sorta justified

The old balance in ShB of the 4 skills was basically “magical mitigation is stronger against multiple hits while shield mitigation doesn’t have diminishing returns and affects all damage types” but ever since they buffed SIO and DV as much as they did in abyssos the only time DM and HOL win out is magical soft enrages and we haven’t had any of them since curtain call before the buff

Right now the magical mitigations are just kinda there

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

How to address xyz-only mitigations:

Option A: Create a polar counterpart with a shared CD and make us learn damage typing of attacks.
Example: Add Dark Dance as a 1:1 physical counterpart to Dark Mind with shared CD.
Example 2: Since WHM needs extra mit apparently - add Protect & Shell as 60s CDs for example (10% mit for the correct type) to serve as a baseline effect.

Option B: Feint/Addle treatment for those cooldowns. If an ability only mitigates magic damage, give half of its mitigation also as physical, and vice versa.
Example: Dark Mind receives 10% phys mit, Dark Missionary, Heart of Light and Magic Barrier all receive 5% phys mit as a bonus.

Option C: Drop the typing altogether and instead add additional effects to make the action more unique in its own right.
Example(s): Dark Missionary 10% pure mit and 10% recovery boost. Heart of Light 10% pure mit + takes Brutal Shell, doubles it and spreads it to all allies.

[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

[CaptainLagbeard]

Magic damage is overwhelmingly used by Trial and Raid bosses... Which in itself is kind of a bad design, as they probably should kind of use a variety of both physical and magical, as only having one type of damage gives more mitigation to some Jobs over others...