We did it! Amazing DRK changes!

[Derio]

They should have just made AD cost 4000 mana and extend darkside by 30s. Keeping it tied to CS is crazy because its still button bloat at the end of the day because its a button that you wont use in most content outside of dungeons and certain open world scenarios.

[Mesarthim]

My favorite part is this is while it of course is only a band-aid fix in the grand scheme of things we're like WOO, PARTY! Speaks volumes to the neglect of the job.

Blood weapon being 3 stacks did seem like an oversight though or did they think a free living shadow was the solution? That... level 80 ability and not the low level ARR blood weapon. You know the more I think about it the less it made sense on why that happened.

[Oizen]

Hopefully 7.2 addresses DRK's MP issue and downtime between its bursts. Overall good buffs but are at band-aid level, doesn't fix DRK but at least they didn't ignore the job this go around.

X.1 patches tend to be the last time they even attempt to put effort into balancing.

Expect .2-.55 to be the WAR catch-up patches.

[Lyth]

Interesting changes. I wonder if C+S/AD will be merged Expiacion style as a future upgrade. Dark Missionary is still a significantly less effective choice than SiO, but I suppose that's offset by Dark Mind being a much better choice than the alternatives. I wonder why they didn't upgrade Camo as well.

Expect .2-.55 to be the WAR catch-up patches.

WAR mains report being unable to clear the M8S doorboss because they don't have healing on Upheaval/Orogeny. Buffs required.

[BabyYoda]

After testing DRK 7.1 I still believe they should do full rework on how their mitigation should be implemented,

current mitigation feels rigged and pointless and no point of making it magic resist tank

[Supersnow845]

After testing DRK 7.1 I still believe they should do full rework on how their mitigation should be implemented,

current mitigation feels rigged and pointless and no point of making it magic resist tank

DRK now has 3 Omni mitigations more than any other tank

What more could you possibly want out of their mit kit

[BabyYoda]

DRK now has 3 Omni mitigations more than any other tank

What more could you possibly want out of their mit kit

Healing now increased passively with DRK which is the boring way to make it tankier.

Dark Mind is 10% extra physical damage which is great but I believe it is not enough for the job to make it more unique.

Dark Missionary same thing.

these changes wont save the job for being more homongized it will make it "Work" for at most next expansion.

DRK now feels like SMN 5.0 and we want changes in the same level as SMN 6.0 with avoiding the mistakes happened in 7.0 summoner

[Oizen]

Dark Knight is still the most unique tank in terms of mitigation, its got way more buttons to press, some of those buttons function even better on magic, and their cooldowns are shorter.

I think defensively DRK is very solid now. If your issue is homogenization, I truly do not believe the developers are capable of better

[Keagian]

Healing now increased passively with DRK which is the boring way to make it tankier.

Dark Mind is 10% extra physical damage which is great but I believe it is not enough for the job to make it more unique.

Dark Missionary same thing.

these changes wont save the job for being more homongized it will make it "Work" for at most next expansion.

DRK now feels like SMN 5.0 and we want changes in the same level as SMN 6.0 with avoiding the mistakes happened in 7.0 summoner

I agree, reducing damage taken is only a band-aid fix for a gameplay problem. The tanks need to have something that is unique to allowing them to mitigate damage that isn't just reduce damage taken for a set amount. Its a boring way to approach tanking when you can have something like Clive's dodge that is reactive and active mitigation.

Each tank needs something unique to their tanking that isn't just press buff and does the same thing as the other tanks. They need something that is comparative but unique to the job theme and allows tanks to be more active to their tanking instead of sitting in spot and pressing CD that reduces damage taken by percentage.

[AvaloniaFallen]

I don't think most of these changes were really needed outside of Dark Missionary being lowered so it can be used in the lvl 70 ultis, but a buff is a buff and I'll take it, especially with FRU coming up. I'd be more worried about homogenization if DRK wasn't a likely candidate for a complete overhaul in 8.0. I'd like more buttons to press since they reduced our MP gain and removed plunge without replacing it with another oGCD, but I'm not expecting any more big changes until next expac. I do think putting healing on Carve and Spit is mostly useless and it should have gone on oblation instead- just think about how great it would feel to give a shield and a small heal to whichever party member fucked up the last mechanic and is now about to eat a raidwide with only a quarter of their hp.