A Detailed Dark Knight Rework [Darkside,Dark Art,Gauge,Identity&Uniqueness and more]

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I have been reading the forum and other dark discussion from reddit for quite sometime now and this is what I believe it needed to be rework like.


Darkside,Dark Art,Edge of Darkness/Shadow Rework
This rework allow for Darkside to change EoD/EoS from a filler attack to finisher attack as well as reduce the weaving in the burst window by 2 but also doesn't prevent anyone from keep spaming Eod/EoS if they wanted too.

"Edge of Darkness"
Deals unaspected damage to all enemies in a straight line before you with a potency of 300 for the first enemy, and [??]% less for all remaining enemies
*Action changes to Enhanced Edge of Darkness while under effect of Darkside*
Acquired Level 30, automatically acquired when unlocked DRK job.*
Type Ability
Cost 3000 MP
Casting Instant
Recast 1s
Range 10y
Radius 10y
Targeting Enemy
[Note1. I left the [ ] with question mark because I wound't know how which percentage that developer would be ok with. Personally I'm fine as long as it still retain the same single target potency
Note.2 This is very impotant. If EoD isn't unlock before start Ishgardian justice quest it would make player not feel the change that darkside made to EoD because they need to experient what it is like when they have yet to learn darkside and enhanced version of EoD. Please let it unlock as soon as the job is unlock]

"Darkside"
"Grant Power.... for a price"
Enhance or increase effectiness of several actions with the extra cost.
Duration : 15s.
*This action should not have animation nor should it interrupt any animation that the player is currently performing like when they press Releash Grit , instead it should only trigger a VFX [Darkside Red Aura] on the player.
Acquired Level 30, Upon completion of Ishgardian Justice Quest.
Type Ability
Cost [Darkside have no cost by itself but the action that it enhance will have a cost]
Casting Instant
Recast 2s
Range 0y
Radius 0y
Targeting None

"Enhanced Edge of Darkness"
Consume all remaining MP and deals unaspected damage to all enemies in a straight line before you with a potency of 100 for the first enemy, and [??]% less for all remaining enemies. Potency increased by 100 for every 1000 MP consumed, up to a maximum of 1200 potency when consume Dark Art.
*Share a recast timer with Edge of Darkness*
*Can only be executed while under the effect of Darkside*
*Darkside Effect Fade upon execution*
*This action cannot be assigned to a hot bar*
Acquired Level 30, Upon completion of Ishgardian Justice Quest.
Type Ability
Cost All remaining MP
Casting Instant
Recast 1s
Range 0y
Radius 0y
Targeting Enemy

"Edge of Shadow"
Deals unaspected damage to all enemies in a straight line before you with a potency of 450 for the first enemy, and [??]% less for all remaining enemies
*Action changes to Enhanced Edge of Shadow while under effect of Darkside*
Acquired Level 80
Type Ability
Cost 3000 MP
Casting Instant
Recast 1s
Range 10y
Radius 10y
Targeting Enemy

"Enhanced Edge of Shadow"
Consume all remaining MP and deals unaspected damage to all enemies in a straight line before you with a potency of 180 for the first enemy, and 85% less for all remaining enemies. Potency increased by 180 for every 1000 MP consumed, up to a maximum of 1800 potency when consume Dark Art.
*Share a recast timer with Edge of Shadow*
*Can only be executed while under the effect of Darkside*
*Darkside Effect Fade upon execution*
*This action can not be assign to a hot bar*
Acquired Level 80.
Type Ability
Cost All remaining MP
Casting Instant
Recast 1s
Range 10y
Radius 10y
Targeting Enemy


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Souleater Combo,Scarlet Delirium Combo rework.
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To make job not too boring whenever doing a low level content DRK need to gain something unique at an earlier level such as

"Dark Passenger "
Deals unaspected damage to all enemies in a straight line before you with a potency of 250 for the first enemy, and [??]% less for all remaining enemies.
Additional Effect : Grant Dark Passenger
Dark Passenger Effect: Reduces weaponskill cast time and recast time and auto-attack delay by 20%
Duration: 10s
*The recast timer of this action cannot be reduced by it own effect*
[however it is still influenced by global recast timer reduction effect and skill speed point]
Cannot be execute while under the effect of Arcane Art.
Acquired Level 4
Type Weaponskill
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 30s [2.5s Global recast time]
Range 10y
Radius 10y
Targeting Enemy
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unleash and stalwart soul need to be replace with quietus so that it can benefit from dark passenger buff,also easier for mp and blood gauge generation when it just 1 action instead of 2.
"Quietus"
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 120 to all nearby enemies
Additional Effect : Restore [200] MP
Additional Effect : Increase Blood Gauge by 10 [When Blood Gauge is unlocked]
Action change to Impalement while under the effect of Delirium
Acquired Level 4
Type Weaponskill
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 2.5s [Global recast time]
Range 0y
Radius 5y
Targeting None

If DRK player don't want to keep repeating basic Souleater combo for 90% of the fight, the thing that we need to be aware is that if this combo is replace by new weaponskill it could mess up MP and Blood Gauge regeneration. The solution would be to make all weaponskill restore 200MP and 10Blood Gauge equally. We also need to removed Combo Bonus and Combo Action requirement from the souleater combo too so that it wouldn't break a combo when we decided to land other combo while souleater combo isn't finished.
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"Hard Slash"
Delivers an attack with potency of 150
Additional Effect : Restore 200 MP
Additional Effect : Increase Blood Gauge by 10 [When Blood Gauge is unlocked]
Action changes to Scarlet Delirium while under the effect of Scarlet Delirium.
*This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
Acquired Level 1
Type Weaponskill
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 2.5s [Global recast time]
Range 3y
Radius 0y
Targeting Enemy

"Syphon Strike"
Delivers an attack with potency of 240
Additional Effect : Restore 200 MP
Additional Effect : Increase Blood Gauge by 10 [When Blood Gauge is unlocked]
Action changes to Scarlet Delirium while under the effect of Scarlet Delirium.
*This action cannot be assigned to a hot bar.
Acquired Level 1
Type Weaponskill
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 2.5s [Global recast time]
Range 3y
Radius 0y
Targeting Enemy

"Syphon Strike Combo"
Executes the following weaponskills in succession:
1. Hard Slash
2. Syphon Strike
Acquired Level 1
Type Weaponskill Combo
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 2.5s [Global recast time]
Range 3y
Radius 0y
Targeting Enemy

"Souleater"
Delivers an attack with potency of 320
Additional Effect : Restore 200 MP
Additional Effect : Increase Blood Gauge by 10 [When Blood Gauge is unlocked]
Action changes to Torcleaver while under the effect of Delirium.
Action changes to Scarlet Delirium while under the effect of Scarlet Delirium.
*This action cannot be assigned to a hot bar.
Acquired Level 26
Type Weaponskill
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 2.5s [Global recast time]
Range 3y
Radius 0y
Targeting Enemy

"Combo Upgrade"
Upgrade Syphon Strike combo to Souleater combo
Acquired Level 26
Type Trait

"Souleater Combo"
Executes the following weaponskills in succession:
1. Hard Slash
2. Syphon Strike
3. Souleater
Cannot be excuted while under the effect of Arcane Art.
Acquired Level 26
Type Weaponskill Combo
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 2.5s [Global recast time]
Range 3y
Radius 0y
Targeting Enemy

"Enhanced Dark Passenger"
Acquired Level 52
Type Trait
Dark Passenger grant 1 stack of Delirium effect upon execution.
Delirium Effect : Allow the execution of Torcleaver and Impalement. Duration 20s.

"Torcleaver"
Delivers an attack with potency of 900
Additional Effect : Restore 200 MP
Additional Effect : Increase Blood Gauge by 10 [When Blood Gauge is unlocked]
Can only be executed while under the effect of Delirium or Scarlet Delirium.
*This action cannot be assigned to a hot bar*
Acquired Level 52
Type Weaponskill
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 2.5s [Global recast time]
Range 5y
Radius 0y
Targeting Enemy
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"Enhanced Dark Passenger II"
Acquired Level 96
Type Trait
Upgrade Delirium effect to Scarlet Delirium effect and increase the stack granted from 1 to 3.
Scarlet Delirium Effect : Allow the execution of Scarlet Delirium,Comeuppance,Torcleaver and Impalement. Duration 20s.

"Scarlet Delirium"
Delivers an attack with potency of 650
Additional Effect : Restore 200 MP
Additional Effect : Increase Blood Gauge by 10.
Can only be executed while under the effect of Scarlet Delirium
Action is change to Comeuppance upon execution.
*This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar*
Acquired Level 96
Type Weaponskill
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 2.5s [Global recast time]
Range 5y
Radius 0y
Targeting Enemy

"Comeuppance"
Delivers an attack with potency of 750
Additional Effect : Restore 200 MP
Additional Effect : Increase Blood Gauge by 10
Can only be executed while under the effect of Scarlet Delirium
Action is change to Torcleaver upon execution.
*This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar*
Acquired Level 96
Type Weaponskill
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 2.5s [Global recast time]
Range 5y
Radius 0y
Targeting Enemy

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Bloog Gauge, Blood Weapon rework.
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"Blood Weapon"
Grants 3 stacks of Blood Weapon, each stack restoring [600] MP and increase Blood Gauge by 10 upon landing weaponskills or spells.
Restore 600 MP and increase 10 Blood Gauge for each remaining stack when the duration expired.
Duration: 30s
Effect does not stack when hitting multiple targets with a single attack.
Can only be used while in combat.
Acquired Level 35
Type Ability
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 60s
Range 0y
Radius 0y
Targeting None

"Impalement"
Delivers an attack with a potency of 400 to all nearby enemies
Additional Effect : Restore 200 MP
Additional Effect : Increase Blood Gauge by 10 [When Blood Gauge is unlocked]
Can only be executed while under the effect of Delirium
*This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar*
Acquired Level 62
Type Weaponskill
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 2.5s [Global recast time]
Range 0y
Radius 5y
Targeting Point Blank AOE

"Black Blood"
Allows for Blood Gauge accumulation upon the landing of certain actions.
Acquired Level 64
Type : Trait

"Salted Earth"
Use the Blood Gauge to create and maintain an area of effect around self that restore own HP. Cure potency : 200.
Acquired Level 64
Type Toggle Ability.
Cost 20 Blood Gauge per tick
[subtract from 10 Blood Gauge generated upon landing weaponskill it will be 10 per tick]
Casting Instant
Recast 3.s
Range 0y
Radius 5y
Targeting Point Blank AOE

"Enhanced Darkside"
Acquired Level 64
Type Trait
Cure Silence upon the execution of Darkside and upgrades Shadowstride and Unmend to Enhanced Shadowstride and Enhanced Unmend while under the effect of Darkside.

"Enhanced Unmend"
Deals unaspected damage to target with a potency of 300
Additional Effect : Restore 600 MP while unde the effect of Blood Weapon.
Additional Effect : Grant Arcane Art Effect, Increase damage dealt by 20% and increase spell speed equivalent to the current skill speed point. Duration 9s.
Action change to Enhanced Unmend II upon execution.
Dark Passenger effect end upon execution.
Can only be excuted while under the effect of darkside. Darkside fade upon execution.
[Explanation : If Dark Knight have 600 Skill Speed by the time Arcane Art is active a Spell Speed will be increase to 600 as well. There is a Spell Speed potion effect in the game already so duplicating the effect and change increasing spell speed value to be equivalent to the current skill speed wouln't be something that impossible to do]
Acquired Level 64
Type Spell
Cost 50 Blood Gauge
Casting Instant
Recast 3s [Global recast time]
Range 25y
Radius 0y
Targeting Enemy

"Enhanced Unmend II"
Deals unaspected damage to target with a potency of 350
Additional Effect : Restore 600 MP while unde the effect of Blood Weapon.
Action change to after execution.
Can only be executed while under the effect of Arcane Art.
Acquired Level 64
Type Spell
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 3s [Global recast time]
Range 25y
Radius 0y
Targeting Enemy

"Enhanced Unmend III"
Deals unaspected damage to target with a potency of 400
Additional Effect : Restore 600 MP while unde the effect of Blood Weapon.
Can only be executed while under the effect of Arcane Art
Acquired Level 64
Type Spell
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 3s [Global recast time]
Range 25y
Radius 0y
Targeting Enemy

"Black Blood Attack Ability"
Deals unaspected damage to target with a potency of 200
Cannot be executed while under the effect of Dark Passenger.
Can only be executed while under the effect of Arcane Art.
Acquired Level 64
Type Ability
Cost 20 Blood gauge
Casting Instant
Recast 1s
Range 25y
Radius 0y
Targeting Enemy

"Black Blood Attack Ability II"
Deals unaspected damage to target with a potency of 300
Cannot be executed while under the effect of Dark Passenger.
Can only be executed while under the effect of Arcane Art.
Acquired Level 64
Type Ability
Cost 30 Blood gauge
Casting Instant
Recast 1s
Range 25y
Radius 0y
Targeting Enemy

"Shadowstride"
Rush to a targeted enemy's location.
Additional Effect: Increased enmity.
Maximum Charges: 2
*Action change to Enhanced Shadowstride while under the effect of Darkside*
*Action change to Shadowbringer while under the effect of Shadowbringer ready*
*Shadowbringer take priority over Enhanced Shadowstride when both requirements are met*
Cannot be executed while bound.
Acquired Level 54
Type Ability
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 30s
Range 20y
Radius 0y
Targeting Enemy

"Enhanced Shadowstride"
Rush to a targeted enemy's location and grant Shadowstride Effect to self.
Additional Effect: Increased enmity.
Shadowstride Effect : Increases movement speed of self and reduce damage taken by 10%.
Duration : 10s.
*Action change to Shadowbringer while under the effect of Shadowbringer ready*
*Share a recast timer with Shadowstride and Shadowbringer.
Cannot be executed while bound.
Darkside effect fade upon execution.
Acquired Level 66
Type Ability
Cost 50 Blood Gauge
Casting Instant
Recast 30s
Range 25y
Radius 0y
Targeting Enemy

"Blood Weapon Mastery"
Acquired Level 72
Type : Trait
Blood Weapon grant Sanguine Strike ready effect and change to Sanguine Strike upon execution.
Duration 15s.

"Sanguine Strike"
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 200.
Additional Effect : Increase Blood Gauge by 50
Can only be excuted while under the effect of Sanguine Strike ready.
Sanguine Strike ready fade upon execution.
Acquired Level 72
Type Ability
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 1s
Range 20y
Radius 0y
Targeting Enemy

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Living Shadow,Disesteem Rework
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"Dark Passenger Mastery"
Acquired Level 90
Type : Trait
Grant Disesteem ready and upgrade Dark Passenger to Disesteem upon execution.
Duration 10s.

"Disesteem"
Deals unaspected damage to all enemies in a straight line before you with a potency of 1000 for the first enemy, and 70% less for all remaining enemies
Additional Effect : Restore 200 MP
Can only be used while under the effect of Disesteem Ready.
Disesteem Ready fade upon execution.
Acquired Level 90
Type Weaponskill
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 2.5s [Global recast time]
Range 10y
Radius 10y
Targeting Enemy

Living Shadow=REMOVE, ERASED, BURNED TO THE GROUND, SMASHED TO PIECES, THROW IT TO THE ABYS!!!!! we can't let this glorify dot keep our attack potency to itself. Let me deliver those damages by myself!!!


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Mitigation Rework
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"Living Dead"
Reduces HP to 1 and renders you impervious to most attacks.
Additional Effect : Grant Sole Survivor, Restore HP when the effect expired. Cure potency : 1200.
Duration: 10s
Acquired Level 50
Type Ability
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 300s
Range 0y
Radius 0y
Targeting None

Dark Mind
Reduce Physical Damage taken by 10% and Reduce Magic Damage taken by 15%
Duration 15s.
Acquired Level 8
Type Ability
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 60s
Range 0y
Radius 0y
Targeting None

Dark Mind Mastery
Upgrade Dark Mind to Art of Defense
Acquired Level 82
Type Trait

Art of Defense
Grant 3 Stacks of Defenses, each stack allow the excution of Dark Dance. Duration : 60s.
Action change to Dark Dance upon execution.
Acquired Level 82
Type Ability
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 60s
Range 0y
Radius 0y
Targeting None

Dark Dance
Increase Parry Rate to 100%. Duration 5s.
Additional Effect : Grant Dark Mind to self and the party member that is under the effect of The Blackest Knight or Oblation.
Dark Mind Effect : Reduce physical damage taken by 10% and reduce magic damage taken by 15%
Duration 5s.
Acquired Level 82
Type Ability
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 5s
Range 0y
Radius 0y
Targeting None

"Shadow Veil"
Creates a barrier around target that absorbs damage equivalent to a heal of 1200 potency
Duration : 7s.
Restore HP equivalent to a remaining potency of barrier when the effect expired.
Acquired Level 45
Type Ability
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 25s
Range 30y
Radius 0y
Targeting Self/Ally

"Shadow Veil Mastery"
Upgrade Shadow Veil to The Blackest Night
Acquired Level 70 Upon completion of Our Compromise Quest.
Type Trait

"The Blackest Night"
Creates a barrier around target that absorbs damage equivalent to a heal of 1200 potency
Duration : 7s.
Restoer HP equivalent to the remaing potency of barrier when the effect expired.
Grants Dark Arts when barrier is completely absorbed.
Dark Arts Effect: Consume Dark Arts instead of MP to execute Edge of Darkness or Edge of Shadow.
*Action change to Convertion upon execution*
Share a recast timer with Oblation.
Acquired Level 70 Upon completion of Our Compromise Quest.
Type Ability
Cost 3000 MP
Casting Instant
Recast 25s
Range 30y
Radius 0y
Targeting Self/Ally

"Convertion"
Convert any remain potency of The Blackest Night to restore hp and grant Dark Art.
Can only be executed while The Blackest Night is active.
The Blackest Night effect fade upon execution
Acquired Level 70 Upon completion of Our Compromise Quest.
Type Ability
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 2.5s
Range 0y
Radius 0y
Targeting None

"Oblation"
Reduce damage taken by 10% and restore HP when effect expired. Cure potency 1200.
Duration : 7s.
Share a recast timer with The Blackest Night.
Acquired Level 70 Upon completion of Our Compromise Quest.
Type Ability
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 25s
Range 30y
Radius 0y
Targeting Self/Ally

"Dark Missionary"
Reduces damage taken by 10% for self and nearby party members.
Action change to Dark Curtain while under the effect of darkside.
Action change to Dark Ritual while used under the effect of both darkside and dark art.
Share a recast timer with Dark Curtain and Dark Ritual.
Acquired Level 66
Type Ability
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 90s
Range 0y
Radius 30y
Targeting None

"Dark Missionary Mastery"
Dark Missionary change to Dark Curtain while under the effect of Darkside.
Acquired Level 76
Type : Trait

"Dark Curtain"
Reduces damage taken by 15% for self and party member.
Duration 15s.
Can only be used while under the effect of Darkside.
Darkside fade upon execution.
Share a recast timer with Dark Missionary
Acquired Level 76
Type Ability
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 120s
Range 0y
Radius 30y
Targeting Point Blank AoE.
[Recast timer of Dark Missionary will be temporary increased from 90 to 120s as well when Dark Curtain is used.]

"Dark Ritual "
Reduce damage taken by 15% and increase healing received by 1% when hp decreases, up to a maximum of 20% when hp decrease below 80% for self and nearby party member. Duration : 15s.
Darkside fade upon execution.
Additional Effect : Consume Dark Art and grant Shadow Bands effect according to the class of the party member.
Dps Class : Increase the potenty of next weaponskill or spell by 100, effect fade upon landing weaponskill or spell.
Healer Classs : Resurrection and Healing spells can be cast instantly, effect fade upon casting any spell.
Duration: 30s
*In the event that more than 4 dps players entered the area of effect, only 4 with the hightest STR, INT , DEX will be chosen to received the effect *
Recast 120s. Share a recast timer with Dark Missionary and Dark Curtain. [Recast time of Dark missionary will be increased from 90 to 120s as well when Dark Ritual is excuted.
Acquired Level 100
Type Ability
Cost -
Casting Instant
Recast 120s
Range 0y
Radius 30y
Targeting Point Blank AoE


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