I need to make this post because a lot of new dark knights are having bad experiences with it in dungeons and then go complain on the forums without taking the time to analyze what went wrong.
I understand warrior is a lot easier after getting raw intuition but that broken ability is no reason to write dark off as "squishy". When you play dark knight in dungeons, dont use all your mits at the same time, space them out so you always have something to rotate as one is falling off. Reprisal is a 60 second cool down and should be used frequently when big pulling now that its an aoe debuff.
Living Dead can be amazing when you explain and communicate it's use to your healer. After falling below 1hp, living dead can full heal you upon using an aoe weaponskill on a big pull.
after level 70 you NEED to use the blackest night whenever it comes off cooldown during dungeon pulls and it will eat a lot of damage for you when used in conjunction with other mitigation skills.
If you mitigate correctly you shouldn't need to sit on abyssal drain for a clutch heal but if your healer and dps are bots then its an option but try to use it frequently in trash pulls for the damage.
DO NOT FORGET TO USE ARMS LENGTH AS A MITIGATION SKILL AT ALL LEVELS! A lot people complain about dark lacking mits at really low levels but I'm positive they arent using arms length and reprisal on cooldown. Arms length inflicts a 20% slow on all enemies that hit you while it's active and that effecitively makes it a 20% damage mit for the whole trash pack.
If you can perform well on Dark Knight I assure it will make you a better tank when you try to learn the other jobs.
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I understand warrior is a lot easier after getting raw intuition but that broken ability is no reason to write dark off as "squishy". When you play dark knight in dungeons, dont use all your mits at the same time, space them out so you always have something to rotate as one is falling off. Reprisal is a 60 second cool down and should be used frequently when big pulling now that its an aoe debuff.
Living Dead can be amazing when you explain and communicate it's use to your healer. After falling below 1hp, living dead can full heal you upon using an aoe weaponskill on a big pull.
after level 70 you NEED to use the blackest night whenever it comes off cooldown during dungeon pulls and it will eat a lot of damage for you when used in conjunction with other mitigation skills.
If you mitigate correctly you shouldn't need to sit on abyssal drain for a clutch heal but if your healer and dps are bots then its an option but try to use it frequently in trash pulls for the damage.
DO NOT FORGET TO USE ARMS LENGTH AS A MITIGATION SKILL AT ALL LEVELS! A lot people complain about dark lacking mits at really low levels but I'm positive they arent using arms length and reprisal on cooldown. Arms length inflicts a 20% slow on all enemies that hit you while it's active and that effecitively makes it a 20% damage mit for the whole trash pack.
If you can perform well on Dark Knight I assure it will make you a better tank when you try to learn the other jobs.
Continue reading...