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THIS WAS SO DANG HELPFUL! Thank you! Been running DRK as my primary class since Shadowbringers...I still have some work to do haha. Can't wait to put all this into practice!

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! I wish you the biggest DEEPS! (DPS) :D

i came across your channel upon the beginning of endwalker and i just wanted to say that it's become one of my absolute faves for ffxiv content thanks for all that you do and i really have enjoyed all of these series' youve made! :)

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Comments like this really help me push myself forward, so I really do appreciate it and I hope you look forward to future videos! :)

These guides are really good. Probably the best I have seen. Thank you and keep it up.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Comments like this really uplift me, I know I'm not perfect and sometimes forget things but I'm glad you learned some things from it :)

@nekronik

2 жыл бұрын

@@AzuriteTV I am a lot. I have been leveling tanks. My Dark Knight has been 80. But I only tank with friends. But I'm trying to build confidence and be better. And these guides are really helping.

Thank you so much for sharing this excellent video, very clear and precise explanations of the art of Dark knight, I have a great deal to learn as I recently opened the class, in point of fact my first tanking class that really does matter in terms of partying in future dungeons kind regards (Pipin Lor) Ragnorok.

Thats a thorough explanation of DRK. I would have like that when i was a sprout. So i'll give traction to your video. Keep it up!

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this, much love :D

Hope ur channel grows my dud! Ya good keep it up

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Ill keep at it :D

Glad I found your channel man great stuff your a gem on youtube 🙂 I've been Tanking as a WAR but thanks to your video I may switch to a Dark K to spice it up :-).. cheers

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome! I'm glad you enjoy the videos and good luck with your DRK! The damage is very satisfying :D

I liked the dungeon demonstration, since that was my knowledge gap; I had been doing similar things, except I would pair up by using arm's length after rampart, and then reprisal after shadow wall, and then being stingy with further CDs if the mobs are almost dead. Seeing your demonstration made me realize that it's worth using reprisal more proactively.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped you out! I'm actually getting a general purpose tanking guide out in a few hours, that might be worth checking out too if you have the time :)

I really love this guide. Your way of presenting information is wonderful! Any chance for an update to this guide with the DRK 6.1 changes in mind?

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

I would like to go back and revise a lot of my guides but it might take me some time! Currently progging the latest Ultimate fight and making guides for that, and I still have a few other jobs to make guides for too, but I'll get around to it!

hey man just wanted to say thanks to you for this vid, i was starting to lvl drk but kinda afraid with alot of memes on drk being bad on endwalker or enchaned unmend meme, then watched your video and see stuff especially the dung example, now I've been comfortable and enjoying too using drk as i lvl, and collecting alot of comms too, so bless you alot man, its really meat alot

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! I'm glad I could ease your fears about DRK :D

Got to admit, levelling DRK from 80-90 via dungeons was interesting. I felt like every GCD and OGCD mattered. As difficult as I found it to survive (compared to PLD,) it's been very fun. Also, I'm finding that at 90 in extremes, very fun to play and great mitigation when you time your mitigations.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it can definitely be fulfilling, I've never dropped so low as a tank this expansion until I tanked on DRK, but I never did die, it was just very sketchy :>

I subbed based off the first minute of this video lol. Idk if it's even going to be great but I'm sold and ready to learn

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

First impressions are the most important right? I hope it was great though :)

Really appreciate this guide! I love DRK and I'm sad that what used to feel like its crown jewel of TBN is now something other tanks have better versions of, and that Living Dead presents such a challenge to healers who aren't WHM. And I've heard an awful lot of people saying that it's just not worth playing anymore, that it's in a terrible place, etc etc. It really is reassuring to hear someone give it an indepth evaluation and conclude that there's no reason not to play it if it's what you want to play and it's what you enjoy playing. I do want to see reworks to at least Blood Weapon and Living Dead so I hope we see at least that much in the future, maybe after they get the data from savage crunched since there's nothing in 6.05.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly Savage makes me the most afraid for DRKs health, I can see World racing groups taking it and then we could see a situation like "look guys, DRK isn't that bad" which would just be disingenuous, yes it has excellent damage output and decent off tank utility but it really doesn't match up to the other tanks in that regard, anything DRK can do, other tanks can do better, this is just worst case scenario though. Brooding aside, I completely agree! would love to see changes to Blood Weapon and Living Dead at the very least :)

@qixaqyx

2 жыл бұрын

I have one request for DRK: UNLIMITED PLUNGES!!!

@Stormtrooper-xp4yt

2 жыл бұрын

@@patrickvo7207 ttf

@JohnDoe-mw8hi

2 жыл бұрын

I think the three things needed for a fair Dark Knight are: 1) A way to get yourself out of Walking Dead. Which could be 50 Blood Gage, Press the button and your alive with 1/2 HP. Maybe more with more blood. 2) Health sustain. Maybe tack it onto Blood weapon based on Damage output so things like Plunge and Edge can do things in Blood Weapon's window. 3) Make TBN 1500 MP. Keeping everything else with it you "Gamble" MP for shield that could have been used for damage. And it would set it apart from the other tanks for how cheap it is compared to theirs. That or giving you an enhanced Edge/Flood and not just a "Free" one So you do more damage having the shield break rather than using it for Edge/Flood.

Gracias muy buen video!!

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! :>

Gosh this was so informative. I watched you PLD guide and now that I maxed that at 90 I'm learning DRK to become more well-rounded. A few takeaways that really will improve my gameplay: * Arm's Length has a slow effect! I completely forgot about this part. * The math optimizing on the AoEs will help me improve my DPS * Reprisal was another ability that I sort of ignored. I'll be adding it to my hotbar for sure Do you have any other suggestions on minigation for Lv 80-90 dungeons that might help my party hate me less xD

Poor DRK needs a defensive adjustment badly. It could be something as simple as 2 charges of abyssal drain or changing blood weapon/delirium to recover hp as well as mp on weaponskills. It's easy enough to fix the issue of feeling awful in dungeons with very minimal changes to the kit. It's a burden on your healer to play Dark Knight currently. The meme job traits were insult to injury

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah there are simple adjustments they can do for sure, I honestly want a complete rework but if we cant get that then I agree some slight adjustments will still make it feel better then it is now

@kylele23

2 жыл бұрын

It also sucks that oblation is literally a footnote compared to the other defense upgrades. I’d let it do something like cause a sole survivor mark on enemies that hit you during it.

@menorasendaiba6404

2 жыл бұрын

Somehow, i remember some quote "It doesn't matter how much DPS if you are a Tank. Can you take all the damage, sustain 'em and keep yourself alive? That's is the main of your job"

@dragonhearthx8369

Жыл бұрын

Honestly I think making drk a shield tank would help. Edge and flood give a small shield and TBN gives shields like hyma (when it breaks you get another one.) Maybe 3 shields. And when it breaks it deals damage in a aoe. And TBN is now on a 20 sec cooldown with no mp cost.

@adrienesper552

Жыл бұрын

@@menorasendaiba6404 but muh deeps

Thanks for the guide! Used to main Drk back in 3.2, of course I miss those lost skills (Stmbld Sole Survivor back pls) but these new dmg abilities are pretty cool. TBN being reliant on dmg resource sucks but will wait and see if the "balance team" does anything. Glad I leveled Drk to 90 before other tanks, cuz damn it feels bad in dungeons for heals... I hear it's good in raids/trials tho

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! it definitely excels in raid and trial instances, the problem I have with it is how badly it gets punished by autos, TBN falls very short on this sadly while the other tank active mitigations excel :(

when healing Walking Dead as Ast, I always try to have Synastry on them when I see that 'red hourglass' by the Drk in the party list I'll place Aspected prior to 'walking dead' activating...then benific 2 + ED (before the initial benific is registered), another benific 2 + intersection after that. Busy work, yes...but that healing rotation for Walking Dead is money for me when Ast.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that doesn't sound like a fun time to heal as an Astro, so many GCD heals :(

Thanks Prof o7

i like the way living dead works. It is cool and will always be easy to cleanse because if you are in such a situation, then you are already taking more than 100% damage. I just wish that it was more clear for the healer to see when 100% has been healed. Or maybe that the debuff duration was just longer, like 15-20 sec

@skeletonwar4445

2 жыл бұрын

The trick (in dungeons) for a more comfortable Living Dead recovery is to use Abyssal Drain while Walking Dead is active. Drain is a huge help in hitting that 100% hp healed.

Hello there, great guide. I do have a question about something on the opener mainly on the other guides I see. There is one part they said that when your blood weapon comes off cool down, you delay it by 3 gcd but looking at other peoples DRK gameplay I don't see them doing this rule. Should I just use Blood weapon everytime its off its cooldown? Sorry for the noob question trying to learn how to be better with DRK.

Just 1 question regarding the opener. Wouldn't you want to switch the order of edge of shadow and hard slash? If you're popping blood weapon prepull, wouldn't you overcap on mana on the hard slash? Maybe I'm missing something.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Nah your not missing anything, you are correct to a degree. Huge oversight on my part, you'll want to use TBN on yourself or the MT prepull to not overcap, most fights right now pop the TBN but if they don't then you would do what you describe.

IMO the new living dead changes make it by far the best invuln in the game, Its essentially double the time of other invulns, and you can heal yourself up for the walking dead step so easy. If you have a healer who knows what they are doing, you can get a good 20 seconds on every trash pull, which is just incredible

Awesome guide, question from a casual Drk getting raiding. How good is Determination over other stats?

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, glad you enjoyed the guide! To answer the question Crit is the best stat, but you also want skill speed to bring your GCD to at least 2.43 (766+ Skill Speed) after that its between Det and DH, as new discoveries have been made, DH is marginally better then Det but really by not much at all, so if you want to leave your tanking options to say WAR, melding Det over DH is a good option and you wont lose much at all. Hope this helps! :)

Living dead rework idea your health simply stops. When you are healed, instead of getting healed, you get a stackable buff that will activate when you get out of it. It is a damage buff that increases with the amount of stacks you have. Max of 5.

mained sch in the beginning up to 90 and I remember death prevent/wipe/stupid situations trying to top up the tank and/or group while rezzing people or eventually having to cross heal in alli raids, as a heal/support I live for these moments tbh since you asked, but you also grow with your toolkit, excogitation for example a lvl 62 ability is meant be used preventatively for the cost of one aetherflow stack while lasting for 45 seconds and healing the target at 800 potency as soon as its hp drops below 50%, but you can use it reactively as well when the target drops below 50% health due to a tank buster or some bullshit and you have to react, or after you rez someone and need to get the target up quick bc shit's on fire, at 90 you got enough tools to manage most situations but yea I dont mind drk's using living dead when I play scholar to get back to your question and yes it should be reworked probably, 3rd video from you I watched, well done mate

Now that blood weapon is fixed, should I focus on recast as much? What're your thoughts?

personally, while i'm more of a casual player i absolutely love dark knight just from the lore perspective and it was the initial quests for it that got me really hooked, the other tanks just never felt satisfying to play in comparison to me as well! i may not be very good at the game or anything, hell i reached level 90 like five days ago but i'm having a great time with it =D

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Lore wise this tank is honestly the coolest and most in depth story I have ever experienced out of all the jobs, it has so much reason to be a tank and shows the WoLs darker side to tenuous tasks

@syrendsong

2 жыл бұрын

i agree! i love that it explores the wol's feelings about everything and reading the journal entries for it really solidified that for me, doubly because i played through shadowbringer with it which just suits so well =D personally i headcanon my wol to have lots of self-doubt because they're on such a high pedestal, they feel like the moment they'd mess up it'd strip them of everything and that they need to keep everyone around them safe, especially after the events of heavensward. so i think dark knight suits them pretty well, given fray exists to counter-balance the doubt and anxiety ^^

Curious, what are the gears above 2/3 of your TDN abilities? I am pretty uneducated on the game honestly. I think it’s Macro related though. Is there a setup I should be using for that ability?

Would TBN work on Living Shadow? Darkkight seems more vocal with their party member than the other tanks would you agree?

How to heal living dead in astro. Aspect >ED>LS>Benific 2 till fully healed

niiiice vid

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! :)

i dont understand why your dark knight looks like an angelic knight, and youve spoiled me some dungeons ive never seen before, but... im grateful nonetheless. thanks for the guide

AST at 90 with macrocosmos can also handle living dead pretty easily, assuming the DRK takes enough damage during the immunity.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, this is a good point! I haven't got my AST to 90 yet but when I do I look forward to playing with this ability

@Kekira

2 жыл бұрын

Same with SCH

Hello, I love your videos and guides, I am pretty new to raiding but I've been progressing quickly but my main problem is that after the DRK opener, my damage drops significantly. I think that's because I am not entirely sure on what to do after it. I just keep my shadowbringers, living shadows etc for raid buffs and while I'm doing that I just 1 2 3 while not overcappping on resources? Same goes for blood weapon and delirium? I think there is something I don't get

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

I'm not exactly sure what could be going wrong here... if you have the time, I would be more then happy to review a vod of you hitting a stone/sky/sea dummy or any dummy for about 3 mins and I can point out any errors a lot easier that way. You can hit me up via Twitter DMs and upload it as unlisted to YT, if that's something you would want to do, Id be more then happy to help!

How to change your DRK timer into HP/MP bar like that?

Hello! Could you clarify the DH vs Det scenario here? I think in your healer video you commented on their worth a little differently. Det is now comparable damage or only in the case of tank role? I'm still in the SHB mindset of materia and trying to make sure I understand for both roles. Thank you!

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Sure! So basically DH is all round good on healers because... well it doesn't have a job that guarantees crit direct hits... *cough WAR cough* So because of this Det is such a marginal loss for tanks if you plan to go the omni tank route, if you don't care for WAR then meld DH all the way. I hope that clears it up :)

@toastedpoptarts7815

2 жыл бұрын

@@AzuriteTV I see I see! I totally misunderstood that you were referring to covering for omnitank use. So then the problem of omnitanks suffering for war's Special Personal Armorset is a little bit alleviated this expansion by Det being not as bad of a loss?

@LuminNox

2 жыл бұрын

Det is overall the better stat now. Direct Hit just scales better on tanks and healers because they don't get any direct hit on their gear that's why it's more valuable for them.

@toastedpoptarts7815

2 жыл бұрын

@@LuminNox Thank you for the insight!! I'll keep that in mind for my dps as well :)

I've been a DRK main since I hit heavensward, and I absolutely love this job. But I do think it's not in a great place, and is due for a rework. I got invited to a static at the start of Endwalker, and I'm really excited to do high level content for basically the first time ever, but my healers asked me not to play DRK due to living dead and rough solo mits. I'm currently playing PLD, but it's not really working for me, so I might try levelling WAR to give it a shot. Ultimately, I still love this job, I absolutely still think it has a place at all levels of play, but I do think that its issues are more glaring than ever before with the other tanks getting so much better. Hopefully someday it'll get fixed so I can main it again in more than just Frontline

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Warrior is super fun so I do recommend, it's also the strongest main tank in the game when it comes to pure tanking capability. That said I would urge you to have a talk with your static about the DRK situation, they sound like they are parroting others words by asking you to not play it, I don't think it's in such a state that it should be refused into statics. It's DPS is excellent and its ability to mitigate tank busters is 2nd to none, of course when it comes to actively tanking it does get punished by auto attacks but you probably won't be actively tanking much as a DRK anyway. All I'm saying is try and make them reconsider! :)

@lilybogue8073

2 жыл бұрын

@@AzuriteTV Yeah, I am planning to have a talk with them about how Paladin isn't working out for me, but I do understand where they're coming from beyond parroting "oh dark knight bad." My healers play Scholar and Astrologian, which as I understand it are the healers that struggle the most with handling Living Dead, and my cotank is also new not only to high level content, but also is much newer to tanking in general, so I'm probably going to be taking the lead on main tanking more often since I'm the more confident tank. I think it's a case of 'wrong job, wrong time,' which like, it sucks that that can happen to Dark Knight, but I do think it's fair given what the static needs and where the job is at

@fordishonor1277

2 жыл бұрын

@@lilybogue8073 I've been main tanking all the new content up to 3rd circle as drk and have had no problems at all. Save shadow wall for tb, pair it with tbn and you're golden. Alot of the raidwide damage is magic so dark missionary is useful too. Haven't had much use for oblation and dark mind is still very situational. Your static have nothing to worry about so play what you enjoy

I know this is late, but I have the toughest time mitigating in dungeons. This guide has helped a lot but I'm still having issues with it. I have to say out of the four tanks DRK is definitely my least fav.

I've just started tanking, I'd have to say I'm enjoying Warrior MUCH more from a casual perspective. I've done wall to wall pulls in dungeons as a beginner and I can't die. lol This will prolly change once I get into harder content. At the very least I'm loving DRK damage. Thanks for the overview and rotation. ✌️

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! DRK damage is definitely its fun aspect, really dealing the big damage !

I main sage and when i see a DRK use living dead I'm usually able to top them with a Krasis+Zoe fueled Pneuma.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for pointing that out, I just got my Sage to level 90 and yeah I can completely understand this :)

@PKcrash

2 жыл бұрын

So many resourses for 1 person lol

How can you tell when you're doing a lot of damage in a dungeon, or anywhere else? There's no damage meters, right? I hear Dark Knight's damage is high, but it's hard to compare without any standards or tracking.

@LuminNox

2 жыл бұрын

You can use external DPS meters like ACT. They're legal to use, you're just not allowed to harrass other players with it.

Love the video although mixed on how you say the opener is relatively easy when I've never found it that way just cause personally trying to mash all the oGCDs I end up just hitting them as soon as I remember to hit them since I tend to tunnel in on my health dropping even close to half since I know I'll have no way to recover it. Otherwise great info if a bit dated as we FINALLY got an update to LD and BW. As for my opinion on DRK, I'm with you on being mixed since to me its very much lost it's identity as it feels a lot like WAR's edgy sibling with out dated mitigation (lookin at you dark mind) and has likely suffered from the hype outcry of ShB of people saying "TBN IS OP!!" When yes while it is strong it was also high risk high reward. Sorry for the ramble great video over all!

If we ever get a substantial rework in 6.1 (which I doubt will happen this early, I expect 6.2 or even 6.3), I want them to adress the identity crisis and fix the weird twin focus that the class has on MP and bloodpoint usage. It feels like Edge/Flood of Shadow and Bloodspiller/Quietus are fighting for attention in the job : both have a buff dedicated to them (Blood Weapon and Delirium respectively) and both asks the player to use them and never overcap. The only difference is that Edge/Flood (and by proxy TBN) gives Dark Arts, buffing DRK. In my opinion, if they don't want to COMPLETELY rework the job, I feel they should change it an a way that those moves work in tandem or fuel each other, instead of just being here and not interacting at all. Shadowbringer feels awkward to me to use as an oGCD with 2 charges on the side while the other tanks' 90 abilities seem both more powerful and correlate to their kit better imo (PLD and WAR get theirs from their big buff while GNB spends 2/3rd of their ressource to use it). In form and function, Shadowbringer is just a bigger Flood of Shadow and I think Bloodspiller/Quietus should either turn it into it either immediately (with less potency for balance) or build a ressource for it or maybe even switch altogether where Edge/Flood build up a ressource that give us Quietus/Bloodspiller which later leads to Shadowbringers. Weaving is imo one of the most fun part of a job and their rotations and I like the feel of DRK's usage of oGCDs but this weird amalgamation of WAR's mechanic coupled with a boring MP management of "oh you're about to hit 6-7k mp ? Flood/Edge now" is kind of redundant. However, I'm just someone that plays the game fairly casually and doesn't aim to do Savage/Extreme but still want to improve nonetheless and I don't pretend I can offer the best solution to fix the job without knowing how it will affect its usability in those kind of contents (especially since I didn't touch other issues like LD and DM needing rework and giving it more sustainability), I just wish for DRK to get itself a good and unique kit it could call its own.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Probably my biggest gripe with DRK, it is ShB WAR with MP management tacked on. I really want to see a unique identity to the job :(

I have the ilvl 580 market board gear but when I do synced content it disregards my melds and thus I only get a sks of like 2.46 or something which is not enough for blood weapon for me. When I am not synced my sks is at 2.41. Anything I can do beside get other gear? :(

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Sadly not from what I'm aware, you would need to acquire yourself an alterative armour set. My advice is to not worry so much about it, the only content that is going to make or break your DPS for missing Blood Weapon is the content you wont be synced for. (Unless you're doing Ultimate's, then its another gear set) Sorry I couldn't be of more help, maybe someone else knows a better alterative

@rasrandir

2 жыл бұрын

@@AzuriteTV thanks for the response! Honestly it's just unsatisfying seeing the buff fall off before I can get that last damn gcd in. But oh well, they better put that shit on a charge system anyway. Thanks again! :)

Astrologian Main here. Living Dead isn't the nightmare for me. There's enough healing to go around that it can be removed with little trouble; the benefit of it only needing to be healed in terms of 100% total over all instead of to a full bar makes a huge difference. Yeah it's gimmicky but AST has no issue dealing with that damage. Add in clutch healing effects like Microcosmos it's just another way to keep a Tank in the game if things go to pot.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Recently leveled my healers and I totally didn't realise the amount of extra kit they gave to healers, its insane

@the-reclining-roleplayer

2 жыл бұрын

@@AzuriteTV I felt spoiled.

What's the weapon that's shown in the beginning of the video?

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

That would be the Trial 2 extreme in Endwalker!

I just wanna make sure, you said use quietus on only 3 or more targets and the aoe combo on 2 or more? I would asume the other way around would be a dps increase but apparently not? I dont understand

@LuminNox

2 жыл бұрын

Bloodspiller is 500 potency and Quietus is 200 potency, so if you use Quietus on 2 targets over a Bloodspiller you lose 100 potency (2x 200 = 400 for Quietus vs 500 for Bloodspiller). That's why you use Quietus on 3 or more targets because it then does more damage than Bloodspiller.

@brandonforrester7342

2 жыл бұрын

@@LuminNox fucking thank you so much, i didn't know how it worked

I'd like to get back into this game but the biggest and most significant deterrence for me is the absolute monumental task of the bloat of abilities. 36 buttons? 36 Abilities?! Like why....

imo DRK could use some buffs. carve and spit and abyssal drain lower the cd to 45 sec and do not tie their cd togeter. that would be good

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

This actually use to be the case before Endwalker, carve & spit and abyssal drain were on separate cds. Idk if I would say "buffs" I'm more on the boat that DRK needs a rework from the ground up, its kit is really out dated now and could use some love, despite being top DPS tank, it doesn't feel good anymore

@arissp4950

2 жыл бұрын

@@AzuriteTV true. I was watching paladins abilities in game ,they are day and night compared to drk. Dark needs some love

how much skill speed do I need to get minimum recast to get 5 GCDs on blood weapon?

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry I'm late to seeing this, I'll edit this reply when I can get access to my PC Edit: SkS threshold is 2.43 or lower, you can go higher but you probably need to live next to the server, so a SkS of 2.43 or lower is recommended

I’ve been hearing that dark knight is complicated but the way you describe it they don’t seem difficult at all. That being said, dark knight could use a rework in a sense that the abilities need to flow together better. On the good side there is a lot of freedom in the rotation, it’s not like paladin where you’re locked in to a certain rotation and if you deviate your damage plummets. But the abilities don’t seem to have as much synergy either. I don’t know how to describe it, it’s strange. I love drk but they just don’t flow like other tanks and even other dos classes. I’m probably not explaining this well.

My first SGE experience running dungeon level 71 was with a DRK. Big pull, used Living Death and boy we wiped.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Oh dear, you can definitely get away with this as a 90 Sage with Pneuma but otherwise it really sucks :(

I had really hoped they would've made Living Dead a passive trait that just automatically procs on death and then goes on cooldown like normal. Cause timing it with random healers is still as incredibly ass as usual.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Making an invuln a trait is definitely an interesting take, this could make it better but still doesn't solve the fundamental problems with it :(

@yScribblezHD

2 жыл бұрын

@@AzuriteTV I think at minimum the invuln time left after fully healed should stay as a true invuln, e.g. say you proc walking dead, you get fully healed in 2 seconds (big healer skill or something), you should have 8 seconds of true invulnerability.

Can you do a high ping rotation?

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Ill try and cook something up :)

Should i use flood on 2 or more or 3 or more?

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

You'll want to use flood on 3 or more, no less

And I love Drk as tank...that was before fflogs numbers started showing its damage. But in comparison to what other tanks got, Dark Knight was neglected in the self sustain dept. TBN is good...but no changes to it since last xpac. War/Gnb equivalent of TBN mitigates similarly like TBN does, doesn't feel bad when said mitigation 'doesn't break,' gives some sort of self heal....and both have longer durations. Haven't tried Pld yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if Sheltron is now similar to that as well. Living Dead/Walking Dead...unchanged and Drk still at mercy of healers that probably just rather let you die and swiftcast raise you with weakness unless Benidiction is on their hotbar. Holmgang/Superbolide...both durations increased to 10 secs. Not sure if Dark Knight would get a rework, but it does need better self sustain options. It's invuln being able to outright kill you if you don't have proper hp restoration in a certain amount of time, should have been reason enough for Dark Knight to receive that a long time ago. Bleeding edge raiders seduced by nice numbers on fflogs and casuals forever praising TBN....not sure if Yoshi P and crew will get the message that Drk needs what's mentioned above, so not holding my breath.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah as I said in my video, the damage it does is weirdly addicting and it puts me in a place where I wonder if it really needs a rework... but ignoring the obsession with big damage numbers, I really don't think that's how a tank show feel, its DPS is good yes but it doesn't feel like a tank should feel. It needs options to self sustain itself and clutch itself up back to health like literally every other tank has and tbn is still the same but it's honestly now overshadowed but the other tanks utility. So I do think it really does need a rework on the scale of Monk/Summoner, give it a new playstyle rather then ShB WAR but uses MP

Living Dead desperately needs some love. Just removing the whole "kills you after the fact" would make it a good but different enough Invuln skill from the rest, since it only really activates *after* you take lethal damage.

@LuminNox

2 жыл бұрын

That way it would literally be a worse Holmgang because of longer CD. They need to come up with a full rework but keep it's identity. My idea would be that it would activate after death and then keeps you at 1HP for up to 7s with immunity to damage and healing and then heal the DRK to full HP when it expires. That way you still have the theme of coming back from the dead.

DRK in raids make great off-tank, they can give TBN for tank busters, or use it during tank swaps to take the buster without losing MP/dmg. In OT role they dish out more dmg than other tanks, so it's fine. Not all tanks should be the best at MT AND OT.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

I don't inherently disagree with this, I think the spot of DRK is fine, lowest personal mitigation but highest DPS tank is not bad and serves a purpose. The problem I have is the outdated kit, Living Dead needs a rework and Dark Mind could honestly use some love, this mitigation cd needs to be more versatile in my opinion

DRK First 30 Sec Rotation: Random Bullshit Go! DRK After you run out of OGCD's: 1-2-3...

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Literally, the worst part about DRK rotation is that opener

Living dead alone makes static sick of DrK which is sad on top of buffs it didn't receive in EW which on off tank really leaves you with one choice- gnb which is quite damn clunky and weirdly busy currently as pld is a meme ;_; That mixed up with WHM being in really bad spot and not having bene for LD sucks big time : /

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I'd really like DRK to get some love, it's in a really weird spot though. DRK is good and bad at the same time, it's playstyle is still just legacy warrior with mp management tacked on and it's invuln is outdated to hell, Dark Mind lacks versatility and blood weapon feels awful to use, ontop of a myriad of other things that just erk me about the job. Annoyingly enough it is still good, it's DPS is excellent and its off tank kit with TBN and Oblation is highly valuable, it just really needs some tidying up to make it "feel better"

@Starrky923

2 жыл бұрын

@@AzuriteTV I was sorta forced to go gnb and for fights like p3s where there is always something going on and tank responsibility is really high it's really damn hard to keep track of nonstatic rotations and everything and performance hits quite high ;_;

If Living Dead actually goes off, it means you would have died anyways. So it’s basically gives the healer 10 extra seconds to get their shit together. You are better off using it than not. If the healer is staring at your 1 HP for 10 seconds and doing nothing, then they are a bad healer.

DRk get like 2 new abilities :( meanwhile PLD gets a lot of cool ones

Legit they just need to give blood weapon 5 charges imo and they can even just make living dead like holmgang or just reduce the healing cost

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

This would honestly be the dream, not sure why they didn't make this a charge based action

@baines803

2 жыл бұрын

@@AzuriteTV I legit thought they would in EW since req and even delirium/IR all have charges now

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

@@baines803 It would of made too much sense I guess... I think legit why they didn't do it is because DRK would then have 2 abilities with charges, not saying that's a valid excuse but its the only conclusion I can draw honestly

As a DRK main, if i use LD its because my healer suck. So d9nt suck, and your DRK will mever have to use it. OR if you have a strong dps group, you can use it to make stupud huge pulls! ;)

Main drk since day one, say allot skill we did have that got removed could be useful to drk toolkit now. Bloodweapon need to be a stack, AD need be updated as use be great aoe heal skill. play drk in pvp, not kidding pvp DRK is how drk should play in PVE. Give a look, see what I mean. Still drk main, still in same static and hubyb a healer so always easier call out for LD. But know may be fight need to swap to my other tanks. Overall i feel DRK got neglected or dev team haven't play DRK to know glaring issues. Recent found out Yoshi very unaware how bad DRK is currently, wasn't inform about problems being posted.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

I'll have to take a look at PvP DRK the next time I do roulette. I think it's in a weird place because it's got such good DPS so some people won't be vocal about it but I do think enough are being vocal, a lot of the big tank names preaching it needs a rework so honestly there is hope! :D and I think if you enjoy DRK you should stick to it, you're going to be doing excellent damage and you have some semi decent off tank utility :)

@stormminx1085

2 жыл бұрын

@@AzuriteTV still have fun as DRK, though do joke about being drk with my group saying "When pick tank job you enjoy, end up being the disabled one" Encourage people who love drk just do their best and stick it out. Just need kick up more of a fuss and be heard. Thinking back to skill we had, we had allot sustain skill got strip of them. recall correctly blood weapon was HP once, got changed to MP.

As someone that plays both healer and tank I say F living dead

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly yeah lol, I hate it

I thought skill speed needed to be 2.40 for 5 gcds in blood weapon

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

This is ping dependent but I'm pretty sure you don't need 2.40 to hit all 5 GCDs unless you have high ping

@LuminNox

2 жыл бұрын

@@AzuriteTV 2.43 is enough if you have good ping and FPS :)

14:38 Almost like the role is supposed to focus on protecting your allies. Crazy. TBN is great Imo. If it doesn’t break then it’s done it’s job. If it breaks then at least you get a free mp attack.

I really hope that DRK gets hit with a Monk-level rework cause I want to like it, but it has WAY too many buttons that need to be fixed or even outright axed. But, I also kinda doubt it'll ever get one cause despite how bad it feels, people will still worship this damn job to hell and back JUST because of TBN.

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

Ill be honest I do think it will get a rework and also I think TBN has fallen short now, due to the other tanks having their equivalent being upgraded so much. TBN has really just lost its value this expansion because of this

@skeletonwar4445

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I still think DRK is fun to play right now (except for Oblation being inconvient to use and Drain/Carve now sharing a cooldown for some reason) but the way it's just kinda "Warrior but Dark" is pretty lame. Having 3 separate job gauge icons (including MP here, since it essentially is DRK's third gauge) and all of them being used purely for damage _besides a single skill_ and not interacting with each other at all is also lame.

tried savage raid with drk..absolute shit…needs 2 cd plus that lvl 72 shield gimmick..meanwhile gnb just pop heart of stone and all good

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

I think Dark Mind could use a rework, I haven't gone too much into it but I think having Dark Mind be similar to GNB camouflage could work, 10% mitigation and the 10% magic mitigation on a 90 second CD, keeping the spirit of the magical reduction but also giving it more versatility

Tio chicky is in limsa picking up gals . That's all that matters .

@AzuriteTV

2 жыл бұрын

He has some explaining to do...

Man...every time i see these type of videos i want to go back to tanking....... Then roulette hits and im in a squad with dps pulling shit and they keep doing it... Ugh.

@apathy2454

Жыл бұрын

You’ll get use to it just don’t let it bother you you’ll get better and more comfortable with more enemies being pulled and you’ll also appreciate it because you yourself would also want to get past dungeons you do quickly after doing them over and over and over again lol Once you get the hang of it DPS will be the ones trying to catch up with you

@HaruFae

Жыл бұрын

@@apathy2454 tbh is not me, I can pull all the mobs before each boss, is the healers the ones that lack healing, so I try to be mindful about their scenario and skillset,dps's are the issue when they start pulling more than the healer can heal , on top of that now the healer has to split between keeping me alive and heal the dps, gotta the problem is on lvl 50 dungeons and below , 50+ is completely different due to their upgraded abilities and a considerable amount of new skills.