Disagree, but to each their own. It feels exactly the same as it did at 90.

It still feels the most boring and slow job

Cuz it was reworked last expansion dawg

The only thing I don't like about it is that the second skill looks like I'm attacking something beside me, not the target I'm attacking

@phildefreitas5669 the last hit Sepulchre looks really wonky, like the clunky backhanded upswing on a sword looks so weird.. but the rest is pretty alright.

It's going to be a still image of his DRK laying dead on the floor.

​@@DunkingsonnHe's in the grave! 😂

DRK is so cooked this expansion i don't even wanna watch it 😭

@@ShikiRyougi05DRK is fine, in fact they literally gave us basically everything we wanted. Shadowed Vigil is basically a 1200 potency cure, with a 40% damage reduction and scarlet delirium basically upgrades our burst skill making bloodspiller less janky and deals more damage. What else do you want besides more of the same. The only thing I don’t like is the AF armor. They could’ve done better

​@@ancarwillis9060 So far what I've noticed in EX content, DRK's rotation became incredibly rigid as a result of the Blood Weapon change. Tying Blood Weapon to Delirium forces a requirement for the gauge to be at 70 or lower before the 2min window for 2 bloodspillers, which happens automatically if absolutely nothing goes wrong and you have 100% uptime. But this value can drift depending on downtime and how many Souleaters you can get off, leading to some really awkward gauge management that isn't easily corrected and continues to drift throughout the fight. I felt like before it was a lot easier to fix the gauge as Delirium and Blood Weapon were different cooldowns and you could separate them if necessary so long as all Bloodspillers are expended in the 2min window. Torrcleaver looks cool at least. Other than that, TBN/Oblation/Dark Mind were not addressed despite being fundamentally weaker and more finnicky to use than every other tank's cooldowns. Vigilance is cool but it still doesn't solve the kit's core problems of being still a bit too magic-focused on mits. TBN is awkward as always, and is even more punishing to fuck up now because our MP economy got cut with only 3 hits of Blood Weapon where we used to have 5 hits, so we have less MP than before. And lastly, the gapcloser. It's fine, I miss the Plunge animation but there's nothing too wrong with it. I feel like it's a tad bit slower but not nearly as bad as what happened to GNB's Rough Divide. So IDK, we got like 1 nice cooldown, Torrcleaver is kinda cool, but then the rest of the kit has even more issues than before and the concerns around Dark Mind and TBN are not addressed for the 3rd expansion in a row.

Fr its literally so weak and is due for a vfx change and buff

I know right, we spam CoS a lot too wished it got new animations

Relax....Dark Knight is the last one.

Damage is a little low but nothing beats paladin in terms of utility. Easily my favorite tank

its the worst tank rn dmg wise But otherwise it's been a blast. its my main too and its been fun

PLD was the class I started 14 on and for some reason I just keep coming back to it.

It's literally a difference of about 2% ​@@LordPebble2309

@Bleachedentity .... yeah some buffs would be nice. It's not a critical need, but it would be nice if in general the tank dps was a little tighter. Like most ideally barely behind warrior with the 2 having a small gap between the OTs. No tank is bad really, but just a bit more dps for pally and a good chunk more for DRK would be perfect.

Yeah should be ogcd like BoH

Im still casual (Dont even use potions @_@) so a lot of the opener walk was.... not quite beyond me but I skimmed. The design window for Pally seems to be that they want lowest DPR in the game on a non healer but with great survivability. Since nothing has really changed for tanks buff wise going off the previous FFlogs Id like to see it moved up to where Dark Knight is, and DRK moved just above warrior. Really id prefer DRk to be the strongest DPS tank, what with it missing an entire defensive, but Daddy Yoshi P seems to insist that GBR is top of the DPS. But at any rate doing less damage then Warrior is an embarrassment for DRK.

@@mechaulfr9600I’m not casual but I don’t use pots at all either, in hardcore raiding scenarios it’s necessary but not really in other content. Cleared ex1 30+ times never using a single potion, only food buffs

@freaknature1774 noice! With Endwalker I had intended to start doing higher end content, but I only started ff14 like 3 months before it came out so I was a little burnt out on new, and then ended up grinding for the Starbird. It took me like 3 months to get it to drop, and I'll never forget that run. I was half awake almost nothing but muscle memory and I almost just left without opening the chest. And there it was. I rolled a 99 on my need, ND it's been pretty much my exclusive minion for the last 2 years.

It used to be before mid EW changes right? Or am I trippin?

it all depends if you crit or not

@@adrian-iw7gm sad but true, crit variance is more influential to your output than rotation variants

I was going to make the same comment. You can use Goring Blade without breaking the 1-2-3 combo. I feel like you want to get Circle of Scorn and Expiacion on cooldown as quickly as possible, and then go into the Confiteor combo before you finish with Riot Blade and Royal Authority.

currently you want to fof immediately to see a final full burst. this will typically be the case more times than not.

@@XenosysVex But that's not entirely true though. Burst ends on X:27 for the party, and this early FoF means PLD burst ends at X:22. This means the only time you're truly getting extra activations is when the fight dies between that X:02 and X:22 mark, which only accounts for 1/3rd of the time line. If the fight ends anywhere outside of that timeline, that means you are missing a decent amount of party damage because you big burst hits are missing raid buffs. At least how I am personally grasping this, it's mostly kill time dependent. Again, could be very handy if a boss has a kill time of like 11:23 or something since you get a full FoF burst window out. It just feels weird to do that with the idea of missing out on 2 GCDs in burst window every 2 minutes.

he means 2.5 second GCD aka 0 skill speed build. since pld spells dont get skill speed

fitting for its current state

All I’ve been waiting for lol

@@ShikiRyougi05one day us DRK mains will learn our lesson lol

the pot right after HS will ensure you get all your burst plus a full atonement combo

@@XenosysVex fasho. Thanks for the answer big dawg.

Yea, thx! ill add it it the sheet.

Rescast time, aka the time your GCDs are "rolling". Skill Speed shortens this time, but most jobs are built around the default 2.5s recast time and either aren't affected by Skill Speed (See MCH) or are actively harmed by it (see GNB).

thank you! updated.

2.5 gcd. Gcd means global cooldown the time it takes for you to use a skill again so 2.5 means 2.5 seconds before you can use another skill.

@@jcjohnson274 yup but dont worry about it. This is literally only important for high end raid content.

"2.5" refers to the gcd ( Global Cooldown )

I avoid all sks. currently DH is best stat but eventually that will prob shift to crit

@@XenosysVex hmm so Crit Det and DH then?

​​@@monsters181dh/det for now and then crit + dh/det after a few patches

Save the absolute worst for last

@@DrowsyBean i was so excited for drk this expansion...look at my dumbass basically only playing rpr lmao. I miss plunge, i miss my MP, Disesteem is lame and the new combo is cool but doesnt add anything gameplay wise.

@@ShikiRyougi05 I was really hyped after seeing the delirium combo - now i'm playing PLD instead of DRK, after 3 years being a main DRK.

@@TenebrisGladius yup...i was on copium until now but i'm leveling PLD to 100 rn.

takes forever for it to come back

​@@pac16 That can't be it, right? I've never noticed a time where I've *needed* it and it's on cooldown. In m1s it comes off in time for raining cats after using it to skip a tank swap. It comes off enough for 2-3 uses in dungeons. And hell, its the best invuln so it might as well have the longest cooldown. I've since then heard complaints about its *delay* to activate, But I can't bring myself to believe its the cooldown that's a big issue without further explanation lol.

@dkcsi9256 it's because m1 is just boss specific. The big take away is paladin just can't pop invulnerable more often compared to the other tank. Back in earlier savage tier fight such as eden there times where all tank beside paladin can pop invulnerable 2 or even 3 time where paladin is just can take 1 due to its incredible long cooldown. The rest idc, dungeons are braindead easy.

@@pac16 I don't think the cooldown time is an issue tbh. So what if the tanks aren't identical? Paladin gets the most effective invuln that takes the longest to come off cooldown. It's not like you *need* it and its unavailable. It's a trade off. If anything about it is "unfortunately untouched", its the delay before it makes you invulnerable.

Sep- ul- chair

Not since the rework in mid-EW. The potencies of the blade spells are now dependent on using req stacks (they also reduced req from 5 stacks down to 4). So you only use holy spirit during req before level 90, after 90 you just cast sword during req.

@@phiefer3 My GOAT.

That's the problem. There's a lot of fights where Paladin gets one usage of it. The downsides to the other invulnerabilities (taking damage with Warrior and Dark Knight (with Dark Knight potentially dying if it goes wrong for X reason) and going to 1 with Gunbreaker) aren't nearly as severe as not having a potential second usage.

Poster boy of previous expansion, + got a rework. Room for others now, thx.

Because it has a 7 minute cd and is beyond awkward to use? Having to warp the group around you isn't enjoyable when every other tank combination is fine. On both P10 and P11 you got shafted for having a 7 minute invuln by forcing more tank swaps as you couldn't have invuln for Harrowing on 10 if you used it earlier and on 11 you also didn't have it for the 2nd Dike. Meanwhile literally every other tank could do both. Bolide is objectively better than HG especially since like 80% of groups have WHM to just bene to remove the "downside".

HUH

But why? That would just extend the Burst for no reason, without doing more damage.

​@@ShikiRyougi05 I think he just means button wise. It would play nicer if it swapped with confetti like the rest of the blades vs replacing imperator.

@@blazewardog ohhh yeah ofc i misread.