Dark Knight: How I'd Do It

[Kitru]

PS Souleater would be a Dark Knight ability instead of a class ability. It is one of the iconic abilities for Dark Knights.

I put it as a class ability instead of a job ability because I felt it worked better to provide it to the base class comparatively early on (similar to when MAR gets Berserk and PLD gets FoF) rather than waiting until 35+ for it to be made available, not to mention that it's the only DPS CD I provided (and both tanks get at least 1, which is basically a requirement for frontloading enmity). I intended Reaver to be something of a proto-Dark Knight similar to how Marauder is a proto-Warrior, and there's already some precedent for "iconic" abilities to belong to the class rather than the job (ARC gets Swiftsong and ACN gets to summon Carbuncle) as long as that iconic ability is functionally required for the base class to operate.

I may be wrong but how i took it was kinda like, an Adloq proc that deals dmg. Meaning once that amount of dmg was absorbed by it, it'd fall off... You get 30seconds before it falls off without being consumed.

That's how it is. It's an absorb shield that you can throw up every 30 seconds that also has a damage reflection aspect attached to it. It's like a combination of Vengeance and Adloquium. At only 100 potency, it would only soak 1-2 hits to reflect, but it becomes quite a bit more valuable when you've stacked up more mitigation or gotten some other absorb shields to layer over it.

[C-croft]

I put it as a class ability instead of a job ability because I felt it worked better to provide it to the base class comparatively early on (similar to when MAR gets Berserk and PLD gets FoF) rather than waiting until 35+ for it to be made available, not to mention that it's the only DPS CD I provided (and both tanks get at least 1, which is basically a requirement for frontloading enmity). I intended Reaver to be something of a proto-Dark Knight similar to how Marauder is a proto-Warrior, and there's already some precedent for "iconic" abilities to belong to the class rather than the job (ARC gets Swiftsong and ACN gets to summon Carbuncle) as long as that iconic ability is functionally required for the base class to operate.

I can kinda see that. Assuming DRK will intro a new class instead of going the ACN>SMN/SCH route. My only thing is that DRK is such a huge DPS burst at the cost of hp style of play though. But screw it, change is good.