Xeno Reacts to "Being a Dark Knight is SUFFERING" by Lucy Pyre | FFXIV

In this video Xeno reacts to Lucy's video about the suffering known as playing Dark Knight. This is an older reaction from before Endwalker released. Enjoy the past Xeems reaction!
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[@MunkeeMag]

Being a DRK when 6.0 came out is like the birthday episode of Metalocalypse. “Happy birthday. We got you your favorite thing: disappointment”

[@danielmantell8751]

That is a pretty fitting Dark Knight present though... If only our sadness could refill our HP we could actually use Living Dead.

[@kyrxon277]

Hate! Hate! Hate! Hate! Hate! 😂

[@deefour28]

Love that show

[@benpeterson4673]

6.1 here: looks like the shipment just got delayed.

[@Itachiflameamaterasu]

7.0 better not bring that fucking birthday present again man 😭

[@BHPicasso]

"They took scourge and gave it back to us later as Living Shadow" oh my god

[@SilverNightbane]

not to mention that badass slashing animation it had...

[@burythelight5104]

Problem is the countdown start ticking during the summon animation, you lose 4-5 sec on the CD.

[@SilverNightbane]

@@burythelight5104 Exactly. It looks cool and all... but it's just not the same.

[@Carsu12]

@@burythelight5104 Would be sick if they made it like Reaper Enshroud, or even a fucking Bunshin

[@burythelight5104]

@@Carsu12 its what should have been done from day 1. They wanted to make DRK a tank, when in XI DRK was a DPS with a scythe as main weapon and Great Sword as secondary weapon, but no they wanted to be "original" and tripped over themselves, leaving one job in the shit and making the other one an absolute blast to play. I leveled GNB WAR PLD to 90 in dungeons, couldn't stand it no more with DRK past LV83 which I did in fates, that how bad it was for me, higher DPS means nothing, people need to start opening their eyes.

[@NeFlorence]

The Xeno Vtuber React arc is a welcome surprise

[@Topaz723]

All tanks seem totally fine on bosses but DRK pulling trash is Jesus take the wheel tier.

[@andrewtimothy9792]

and thats the crazy thing that people have been defending this job for "DRK is fine in raid, its just not great for dungeons" or somethign similar to it. meanwhile the other 3 tanks can perform just as well or even "better" (holmgang) in raids, while still being great in dungeons. these people are too far gone.

[@legolaswong]

@@andrewtimothy9792 but damage

[@andrewtimothy9792]

@@legolaswong haha exactly "But the damage though my guy"

[@HyouVizer]

@@andrewtimothy9792 DRK use to be the best for dungeons with so many dmg aoes and GCD dark arts Abyssal Drain before ShB 4.x era and earlier

[@MissSmoozie]

@@Ducksquare I'm not sure which busters you've found, using actual numbers, first hit of the p4s p1 buster hits for just about 130% of tank HP, Dark Mind+Shadow Wall + TBN makes you have 52.2% HP, Oblation would make it 59.5%. Nebula + HoC correctly timed would put you at 38.4% HP, then get excoged back up to 56.8%, if you mistime HoC you're staying at 45.2% HP.

[@HansRulezGl]

Eureka was a whole lotta fun as a DRK. Blood Price and Abyssal Drain turned a DRK into a walking death machine. As long as I was getting my face punched in in those 15 seconds of blood price I'd have unlimited MP for Abyssal Drain. And then they removed blood price and put abyssal drain on a cd. Twas a sad day.

[@mrdarkstar3756]

If Xeno read Berserk he would be a DRK main after roughly a month or 2 of depression.

[@ember-evergarden]

I'm not mad that Drk is awful. Every time I play it, I enjoy the fact I'm a miserable fucking tank making everyone's lives a hassle. It feels so good to be a scumbag piece of shit tank, because I'll have tank priveledge and the Drk job mechanic is now literally, "healers adjust'. Kekw

[@danielmantell8751]

It's good practice for the healers. You get to see them scramble when you die because they thought you had sustain. Keeps them on their toes.

[@shiroalter8975]

He gets it

[@michaeltoy1813]

Not gonna lie, as a casual, DRK is very uncomfortable. Felt it before reaching the first dungeon in endwalker.

[@banriswirl6414]

Fear not, it isn't comfortable for non-casuals either.

[@cabellism]

BuT iT DoEs the HigHEsT DaMaGe ThO................ Yes,, but it plays like shit, and it's ohhh-so-fucking-fantastic when you get /comforted every fucking time you que, and they see you are on DRK.

[@LeonV777]

@@cabellism Doesn't even deal that much more than GNB and GNB has a lot more to offer defensively.

[@ArchieGamez]

@@LeonV777 also GNB combo is MUCH MUCH MORE FUN than current DRK combos

[@cabellism]

@@LeonV777 very true. Where as on my warrior, im never in danger of dieing, and you can pull everything on the moon.

[@XxSliphxX]

As an astro main it is definitely noticeable how much harder it is to keep a drk alive pulling dungeon trash vs every other tank. I can keep them alive but it is legit harder to keep drk alive on trash than doing bosses.

[@danielmantell8751]

Yea, dungeon bosses are easy, those mobs are scary as hell though.

[@kyrxon277]

Same.... I mained Drk (and Ast) in Stormblood and hardly needed a healer on wall to wall trash pulls, and what a difference Drk has become since coming back in EW. I used to think GunB was a squishy tank but it seems Drk takes the throne.

[@pepekovallin]

@@danielmantell8751 I don't wish the pain of running a solo Dungeon to level up blue mage to anyone, sometimes it takes a whole hour for me to go through the dungeon and mini-bosses than to actually defeat the freaking boss

[@Zayindjejfj]

As far as I know, JPs receptions towards DRK is literally based off lore and story. And they also think TBN is busted and that it's all it needs.

[@lolthesystem]

They got no extra lore or story this expansion, so what's the excuse now?

[@blastchaos4286]

@@lolthesystem It's not like the lore and story that was there before suddenly went away. And it's also completely different from job balance. People can love a job for thematic reasons but still want it to be improved from a balance standpoint. Whenever I hear that JP loves DRK, it's never "JP loves how DRK compares to the other tank jobs", it's always "JP loves big swords and darkness", it's a completely different conversation altogether. I love DRK. It's my favorite tank job due to personal attachment to the aesthetic alone. But I'm not stupid enough to ignore that it desperately needs help mechanically, and I hope they do fix my favorite tank job. I assume that's the case with JP players as well.

[@SilverNightbane]

As someone who plays on JP servers, the reason they think it's busted is because they do pulls like how Trust does it. They rarely if ever do w2w.

[@clonosfreid6658]

Just so you know, the JP forums are filled with people complaining about DRK too. NA and EU aren't the only people complaining. Squeenix just doesn't listen and straight up lied about people not posting on the official forums ONLY when it comes to DRK.

[@joshp011]

@@SilverNightbane I'm surprised to hear that, I've been on Tonberry since ARR and it's wall to wall probably like 80% of the time with randoms. God forbid you fuck up a pull though, I remember doing that big Mt. Gulg pull once as PLD and the JP healer rescued me back just before the last pack, thinking I couldn't do it and fucked up my entire invuln ahaha, passive aggressive comments in Japanese the whole time after that. Other than that I've had pretty good experiences on JP servers for the most part

[@Opusss]

Lucy is awesome. Her cringe content scratches an itch I never knew I had.

[@GlairGullwing]

YEES

[@Sammysnows]

the saddest part of being DRK is actually in healer prespective. most healer just hate DRK in dungeon because they had to heal more than 3 other tanks, and if WD is active they have to spam heals. YES healer job is suppose to heal but in FFXIV they also have to DPS because dps = faster adds die = less the stress needed to heals and for tank to take less dmg

[@AquaticFlower2233]

and it gets even worse because we will never get fun damage rotations outside of pressing the same button over and over.

[@theultimateevil3430]

Healers often do very high aoe damage, and if they don't, tank runs out of cds and dies. It's not just a nice extra damage, some dungeons are literally designed with it in mind.

[@pepekovallin]

But doesn't dark knight compensate his lower defense with bigger damage?

[@KyvannShrike]

"They're never going back to 3.x. Never" I know. And it hurts every time it's said.

[@briannorwynn]

I leveled DRK to 80. That was my limit. I can't bear the pain anymore.

[@roadmaster3000]

I understand my friend i did that a day ago when i was done i cried then went to play monk and had more fun punching people than being edgy and having large sword

[@Blue_Incognito98]

I got mine to 90...

[@seyahtan24]

You must be weak asf and just don't know how to play it.

[@JABO95SA]

Xeno should react to lore videos or story recap videos. I think he would have fun watching them on stream, and learn the Lore of a Game he already loves so much :3

[@Paien75]

This is a great idea

[@Ch4pp13]

DRK looks like a really fun job to play. DRK also looks like a really cool job to play, with the big sword and interweaving magic between attacks and stuff. Then you read "enhanced unmend" and you wonder why you spent hours leveling DRK.

[@AstonMartinStig]

From a healing perspective, trying to keep a DRK up on trash is PTSD.

[@Zephhi]

When I only played DRK it made me think staying alive in dungeons would be hard. Then I played any other and easily lived

[@hirokjyotideka5571]

I run out OGCDs trying to heal those f***ers.

[@amythistxue1]

worst whiplash is going from healing a WAR to healing a DRK in back to back dungeons

[@Necrostrike]

What exaggerated garbage. In between Rampart+TBN+Low Blow+Oblation+AD >Shadow Wall+TBN+Oblation+Low Blow+Arm's Length with interweaving your DPS CD's, if you can't keep the DRK up it's because your DPS or the healer are shit. Is it worse than my GNB? Yeah, obviously, can't solo bosses if the healer is a mongoloid and dies during a boss and my DPS are idiots who don't use Bloodthirst+Second Wind and personal defensives. But DRK is plenty viable in dungeons. They should have given old arcane crest heal to breaking TBN instead of enhanced unmend and make Oblation return mana when hit or increase healing taken by 10-20%. Then DRK would be perfect. The easy fix would be reducing AD to 30 sec cd and unlinking it from carve and spit and making oblation increase your healing received.

[@AsaelTheBeast]

@@Necrostrike That'd make Oblation worth using, at least. It doesn't really address Living dead. Which is still the worst fucking ability in the game- being the only ability that kills the user when used as intended.

[@DonPetexX]

There's this joke video about how dark knight is the best endwalker tank Zeno should watch that if he gets the chance, the video is made by Sen

[@MFMagnus]

DRK has been my go to tank ever since HW and I have a panic attack any time I do content with it.

[@roadmaster3000]

Bro i had a panic attack and hit living dead while doing a dungeon because my healer died next thing i know walking dead procs and im hit the boss until i dropped dead and the samurai finished the job

[@moosecat00]

At least DRK had HW. Imagine being a WHM, where people prefer double Shield healers over bringing a WHM.

[@DonPetexX]

This are strange times indeed

[@MissSmoozie]

If they just gave WHM 5% or 7% MP on lilies, buffed misery to be at least neutral if built up entirely during uptime, then maybe, just maybe, it wouldn't feel shit. Charges on assize for alignment/actually healing with it would help a ton too.

[@bob513993]

@@MissSmoozie Translation: “If they just changed everything but Benediction”

[@MrZimmerson]

Seeing all these videos just brings my blood to the boil on how fucking bad DRK is treated. If they can JUST fix: Blood Weapon TBN Living Dead If they wanted to, they could completely restructure the skills we unlock from 30 - 90, to make things make more sense. If they wanted to go even further - Merge Salt & Darkness and Abyssal Drain into one Give back Dark Arts that can buff one of our 1 2 3 rotations to give more or something, I don't know. Make the playstyle less stale. Anything. At the bare minium, just... just give us generic quality of LIFE improvements, that'd be good enough. If they wanted to go further and bring us back into the days of Heavensward, that would be fantastic. Overall, I'm getting to the point where I'm going to fucking research the older changes of DRK and try to make a comprehensive post on the forum talking about what is GOOD about DRK, and what they could improve on, since I love DRK. I love the class, and I hate how DRK has been treated since Stormblood.

[@Sh4doWDweller]

yo that choke hold on beni is real when you consider they could easily remove it from just whm and make it a role ability for all healers to enjoy and remove that useless sleep spell that gets used maybe 1% of the time

[@ReinTenebres]

I haven't used that spell since it was a Thaumaturge quest to use it back in A Realm Reborn.

[@yxyburke]

It doesn't fit other classes lore wise and is too powerful to be a role skill

[@bearandthebull2372]

@@yxyburke "lore wise" is a pretty bad explanation since "lore abilities" include a bunch of skills we will NEVER get access to.

[@robnorob]

@@yxyburke i mean...they took bloodbath and gave it to every melee

[@yxyburke]

@@robnorob and it isn't as powerful of an ability as benediction is imo.

[@roccoheat8662]

I remember when Dark could spam an aoe dmg+heal on packs and was one of the best pack pullers. Still annoyed they removed it

[@RaysofLight98]

My rule: If I have to use my invuln as a DRK, *assume I fucked up* and it’s an absolute last resort.

[@christok4928]

when I play DRK in dungeon I always constantly thinking for surviving and dpsing as fast as possible. it's the same with WAR just without healer.

[@lexmats8527]

Here's how I'd improve dark knight while staying with SE's refusal to change Living Dead and Blood Weapon. 1. Improved TBN- 2 stacks of progressively weakening shield. First 25% of hp then 15%. Sages already have this, so i dont see why they cant implement it on dark knight. 2. Enhance Unmend- remove this shit. Maybe replace it with Enhance TBN. 3. Reduce MP Cost of Edge/Flood of Shadow to 2000. Maybe reduce the potency to balance it.

[@MissSmoozie]

For the love of good, please don't force us into some cursed 4/8 rotation or whatever exact abomination 2k MP Edge would bring. We already can't mitigate in the opener and are just barely able to mitigate the first buster in p3s. We need a shorter opener, not a longer like 2k MP Edge would bring. I'd rather see Enhanced Dark Mind replacing Enhanced Unmend and Oblation. Making DM go on other people, get 2 charges and get 15% vs. physical, 25% vs. magical. Saves us a weave, balances out the damage types, and is technically a tiny nerf to it, but massive QoL, if you really want something more, slap a 10% HP shield on it too.

[@clonosfreid6658]

@@MissSmoozie The one thing I don't get is why they made Shadowbringer 2 FUCKING CHARGES. Just make it 1200 *like how Double Down is*. WHY did they say "we wanted to reduce the button bloat on classes" and only did things for fucking GNB??? Take Oblation out, give the 10% to TBN and take away the mana cost. That's all you really need to do--other than fixing LD and BW.

[@blueray222]

@@clonosfreid6658 I think some people hate the idea of having a damage reduction baked into TBN since it would theoretically make the shield harder to break and get the proc. Instead, why not have the Oblation 10% merged into Dark Mind. Nobody likes that Dark Mind is only effective on magic damage, so why not give it a lesser but still useful physical reduction too instead of having Oblation at all? They did this exact thing for Feint and Addle, so why not for Dark Mind

[@clonosfreid6658]

@@blueray222 I get what you're saying, but it's why I said to take the mana cost out of TBN. Hell, I'll even say that if they do that, make it a 25s cd. That way, it isn't liable to mess up our damage and can still give a DA proc if it does indeed break, thus giving it the whole thing of actually being the offensive tank. Potencies shouldn't be changed either, since GNB--who has MUCH better mitigation options--is quite literally up our ass on damage (iirc 50 from median and 30 on the max as of this savage tier).

[@hobito6836]

10:48 Looks like the new Summoner got designed by the Dark Knight team.

[@bearandthebull2372]

It's nowhere close to the same issue. New smn is braindead but still fun amd fully functional.Drk is a trashfire the devs refuse to fix,and keep nerfing because they wont balance tbn even though its the worst Mit of the 4 tanks now.

[@NekoBatyx]

The problem with TBN is that it is a skill that is supposed to prevent damage, and yet it rewards you for taking more damage than it is supposed to prevent. It contradicts its own purpose.

[@dener461]

It would be better. if DRK had similar skill to Thrill of Battle

[@NekoBatyx]

@@Sammysapphira The downside being poor design does not make for healthy or fun gameplay. All it takes to fix DRK are simple QoL changes that other Tanks already have set as an example, then bring up the other Tanks' DPS to be closer to DRK but still have DRK do the most DPS by a smaller percentage. (I'm just repeating what Xeno said in his previous tank video)

[@2Syndras1Cup]

I'm feeling this so hard, literally since HW. I didn't even think of DK as complex since it was my first tank job, "just" don't over spam DA and if your dmg is bad or one DPS goes monkaSTEER and you have no Ninja (except Savage, not having a Ninja was actual trolling bro and we all know it), use your aggro combo once or twice. I mean cmon bruh, it started with TANK STANCE, it had aoe DAMAGE and it was tied to MP and not TP, actually the most casual friendly job tank to pick up back then.

[@emeraldo]

My roulette party chat is always hyped whenever a WAR joins. 😂

[@csguak]

Vengeance vs Dark mind Bloodwhetting vs TBN Holmgang vs Living Dead Why play DRK? 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@SilverNightbane]

Lore and aesthetics means a lot to some people, honestly XD

[@Lazarilly]

Oh this is going to be gold

[@romdog1818]

Spoiler alert: it was. Especially when he pauses to read those comments that are 100,000% true. Yeah Dark Knight looks cool with a bigass sword, but even their abilities are pretty uninteresting visually compared to, say, Reaper. The only way i can describe the class (and some of the older classes like Dragoon too) is *Old Japanese game jankiness.* Those old classes dont need buffs, they need a whole new reimagining with current content levels of quality testing.

[@Malacite]

I'm not mad that they took one of the coolest, most fun DPS in the franchise's history and shoehorned it into the complete opposite role while at the same time doing a lazy copy & paste job of another job entirely. Go on and tell me DRK isn't just a reskinned RUN. EDIT: I can see where DRK could work thematically as a tank with an emphasis on getting hit directly vs sacrificing their own HP, but they did the worst job imaginable implementing that. I'm having second thoughts lately about them choosing 5.0 job design over 3.0

[@throwmeaname]

What’s a RUN? I was also thought DRK should have been a DPS job at the beginning, but having played DRK I can appreciate why they would choose them being tanks instead. They’re plate wearing badasses that is a direct contrast their PLD brothers.

[@Malacite]

@@throwmeaname Runefencer, one of the last 2 jobs added to FF11 alongside Geomancer (came out before HW too in the Seekers of Adoulin expansion) It's an anti-magic tank that uses a Greatsword and relies on parrying and evasion as well as strong magic defense. It gives a small homage to Mystic Knight from FF5 which it was semi-inspired by but it doesn't really do the full spellblade thing. DRK is ostensibly the same damn job except it can't really dodge and parry attacks. It's not THAT surprising since Yoshida oversees both MMOs if they were gonna make one of the DPS a tank, it really should have been Samurai. At the very least DRK needs a big rework that gives it more benefits for losing HP.

[@throwmeaname]

@@Malacite thanks for the info! I’m also thinking the same about DRK getting a bonus for losing HP. Thematically they’re the job who feeds on despair and suffering, so they ought to gain special bonus when taking in damage. But at the same time I wouldn’t want them to play like WAR where their rage is what keeps them from dying. Something similar but different? Would be a cool idea.

[@Malacite]

@@throwmeaname Their whole ethos is turning their own suffering into power they can use to prevent others from suffering (this was a huge thing in 11 as well, showcased by the NPC Zeid) But since it's a tank and not a DPS they obviously have to balance it differently. One really cool thing they could do is change Blood Weapon to give him a damage increase the lower their HP is as a % of their max, probably capping around 1/3 (can't let the tank get too low, lol) incidentally this would also make TBN much more valuable since it's a huge shield and would let the DRK get away with having low HP for longer. I would also just delete Living Dead altogether. I think a much cooler invul would be to give the DRK some kind of massive mitigation effect with all received damage being deferred over time - so they still take the full hits, just over time rather than all at once giving the healers time to adjust and also giving the DRK a steady stream of possible HP triggers. I'm not expecting to see anything like what we got in 11 since again, not a DPS but they can certainly do a lot better. It absolutely needs a full rework.

[@Zephhi]

FUCKING FACTS TALK TO EM!!!

[@Blueberryvibe420]

Xemo, if you can could you maybe do an update video for the DRK opener for EW? And if not, can you tell me if a modified version of your standard DRK opener will work in EW? Mostly thinking about living shadow activation, everyone is telling me to use it after souleater instead of after bloodspiller but as Im still a noob with blue parses I have difficulties adjusting my muscle memory

[@Kheirongale]

TBH that extra skill for 10% mit should have been added to TBN and Dark mind, that extra skill oblivion or what ever is called is just filler

[@lynbot2377]

That would make it harder to actually pop TBN in some situations tho

[@matthewwysong644]

My opinion on what DRK needs changed: Obulation pops the current TBN the dark knight has on any target, and both heals the person the shield was removed from by 25%, and increases the resistance of Obulation on the selected target from 10% to 35%. Hell, you could make it heal both people by 25% if they're different targets. Next, drop the level we get Stalwart Soul at to like 45, and remove the blood gauge increase until 72. Next, Walking Dead, when triggered, gives the Dark Knight a 30% damage reduction in addition to the whole "can't die" thing. Dark Mind also gets a 10% healing intake bonus additional. We'll remove the damage buff from Shadow abilities. The whole gauge is a big nothing burger. In it's place, we get a few stacks of Dark Arts, charged with each usage of Flood and Edge. At any time, we can empty the gauge, allowing usage of a GCD single target combo (you'll want at least 3 charges) or a two step AoE GCD combo, perhaps changing Carve and Spit and Abyssal Drain to GCDs using these. Finally, Shadowbringer now grants three charges of Dark Arts instantly, but has two minute CD. Change blood weapon to either give haste or a stack system, and I think the job would be pretty different, but still plenty enjoyable, and still likely the best tank to take advantage of party buffs.

[@ReaverPrime]

Reaper is essentially FFXI's version of Dark Knight realized in FFXIV's engine. As someone that played alot of DRK in FFXI, I'm almost insulted that RPR wasn't the one added to the game back in HW. I've never liked that DRK was a tank in this game to begin with when its all out DPS in every other FF game its been in.

[@Centurion2043]

I miss power slash and dark arts spam/sustain

[@OniGundamSeed]

I thought it was always Cloud FF7 because battle stance and victory are his poses

[@draghier]

hope we get more Xeno x Lucy content since pretty sure she is a fan of him

[@yersonreyes3726]

This just makes those who do well with drk more impressive. It’s like the final exam for the whole party.

[@LoliO.]

Finally literally was just asking about this

[@templeknights]

Yo what is the name of that outro music at the end?

[@superape013]

anyone who says the fixes to drk goes agaisnt lore doesnt understand the drk lore

[@kalasmournrex1470]

Just don't use TBN until the stun DR on holy reaches 0. Pretty simple. That said, DRK is still the worst tank.

[@sillytrash8502]

They like Dark Knight cause of Berserk anime. Wouldn't disagree either haha.

[@andyrocka5341]

Simple cast the TBN on the silly WHM that will for sure run into the oncoming tank buster to get a quick proc XD

[@sato0076]

I love reaper is it any wonder why I haven't even bothered levelling dark this expansion.

[@krackawoody2556]

Everyone complained that you cant use TBN and mitigation so TBN wont pop. Square Enix was just addressing the complaints by making sure your TBN pops no matter how much mitigation you stack

[@duvaldragon]

We need a “proper” combo ender been waiting every since Heavensward soul eater was spell but after HW they made it out combo ender

[@Rayhaku808]

Everytime I swap to my 80 DRK I open DF, think for a moment.... then change to WAR.

[@TruePermafrost]

imo just let the bloodspiller and quietus do some extra shit, like heal on damage or give MP to further fuel flood/edge spam or to be more in line with DRK have them give barrier. idk, DRK just feels like its missing that something to really make it feel complete.

[@Tdog_Ultra]

All square needs to do, at least for a band-aid fix to this job is, make LD's walking dead status immune to damage or get rid of the heal to full half of it. They need to just get rid of dark mind, turn it into something better. And give some sustain on like Blood weapon(also give it the stack treatment) or something. Then the job would at least be more managable, still kinda boring for the filler but at least you wont die as much in dungeons etc

[@Miniman6347]

Fun fact: It’s not “you need to be healed to full health. It’s “You need to be healed a total equal to your max health”. For example, let’s say you have 10k max health and pop Walking Dead. You do not need to be healed to the full 10k health. Rather, the healer has to heal you a total of 10k health. Does this mean that you could still be at 1/4 health when this 10k total is met? Yes! Is Living Dead still shit? Yes!

[@nairav9156]

I started game last year, just reached Shadow Bringer.... you guys giving me fear for the late game if I reach it this expansion (gets distracted by Palast of the Dead and shit)

[@ZayTheOracleArchive]

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

[@jakeywaykey]

Remember when Blood Weapon also gave haste so you would actually regen more mp Rip

[@headspacetheace]

been watching lucy for a few months and holy crap is she funny, legit one of my fav ffxiv creators along w you and zepla :)

[@IXHebiXl]

The last two days has been a weird worlds collide moments for me. Xeno is watching HololiveEN and Lucy Pyre

[@jacobschmidt1264]

The problem I see with balancing is simply this. Homogenization Id you do more dos as a tank you should have less tools. If you have a-lot of defensive tools you need to sacrifice offense. You shouldn’t have both. If you make all tanks have equal damage, what makes them different? Their cool downs and rotation. Animations? Is that enough? I see dark like akuma in street fighter, high dps but low defense. If you want a challenge, play drk. Perfect mechanics and be big dick dps, for a tank anyways. If you want more flexibility and a higher error threshold, play a more defensive tank…. It gives them versatility But! It also depends in the designers intentions. Game is the game meant to be played and are the jobs meeting that criteria. Is the game designed around parsing? Casual? Variety? Prog? All of the above? These all change how a job should function..

[@nycto5335]

I agree but at least give the class a clearly deserved glow up. LD, BW, AoE being spells, etc. The job is pretty wack overall tbh. Sure let it be the higher DPS with less Utility but like at least give it QoL, tweak the design, identity, etc. Like you said tho, it all depends on what the devs want to achieve. So they could end up ignoring our issues and go a different route anyways.

[@danielmantell8751]

I agree with the idea but but it doesn't play like that. We have slightly more dmg for WAY worse sustain and a really awkward boring kit. It's not like DRK is complicated to play, it's just messy and busy. By any rational Gunbreaker or Warrior is a better choice unless you really need that extra .1% to kill a raid boss, in which case you just need better DPS players. And really since DRK needs so much healing you just lose Healer DPS in trade. I'd take what you're suggesting, it just doesn't exist currently.

[@roadmaster3000]

I nearly went insane trying to get drk to 80 even with a competent whm who said pull wall to wall and i had proc'd living dead til they said nvm slow it down now i just use it for glams

[@ArchieGamez]

@@rasrandir Yea ShB i feel perfectly fine but now it feels weird

[@ayro0638]

Still my favorite class lol I'm stubborn. Used to be WAR but everybody plays that shit now

[@throwmeaname]

Same. I’m playing DRK to spite everyone lol

[@StatiicDreams]

@@throwmeaname Inflicting depression upon yourself to spite internet people. You good dude? I genuinely worry for you DRK players man.

[@tristenj1992]

Never understood getting turned off things simply because of popularity

[@throwmeaname]

@@StatiicDreams nah, I actually genuinely enjoy playing the job

[@Isaac31415]

@@tristenj1992 Its called being reverse sheep. "Oh, i like this, but i wont like anymore because people like it and i want to be a reverse sheep"

[@faux3401]

I am deathly afraid to pull anythhing more than one trash pack in dungeons, but if I don't I feel like im wasting everyones time :(

[@GlairGullwing]

I had to raise the volume so much, just to be able to hear her vs you, that my Roommate scolded me

[@Izoowoo]

my biggest complaint besides drk being completely gutted and shafted as expansions go on is the fact the aoe cooldown is still like 90 seconds, why the FUCK is our aoe dot on such a long cooldown. 90 seconds for 15 seconds of damage. meanwhile circle of scorn is off cooldown almost every other combo

[@aidenlin2817]

This actually tilts me, the drk in our static just keeps dying in p3s if our healer don't pay extra attention. please buff drk's defense

[@akaiakumai390]

shame TBN only lasts like 0.0003 seconds in dungeons atm. Like when tanking as DRK im literally praying for TBN to be off CD but it never seems to come back fast enough.

[@jamespark3510]

I really dont understand when people say "DRK is fine due to higher damage, its their gimmick" logic....no it isn't...this isn't a solo killathon game, this is a co-operative MMO game, you self sustaining/mitigating more on your own (as a tank should be regardless of tank class) gives the healers time to DPS them selves and support others, which is what they should be doing in raids and dungeons. DRK needs help, they know it, they are just coping through it with edginess and higher numbers ^^

[@fcvanilla7293]

Did they fucking miss that 4:51 is play on lyrics from Boulevard of Broken Dreams?

[@ErrorGameManiac]

no worries guys 2023 7.0 patch might address drk and give it a functioning kit, I am sure they will totally not leave it the same again. Ohh and they wont do any reworks for DRK this expansion they said no more reworks during expansions so only hope is 7.0 or 8.0 if nothing changes on 7.0

[@blvckreaper462]

RPR is a DRK that stopped tanking.

[@zanagi]

Internal Release

[@Sethir]

Berserk is a SICK manga tho. Real good. You'd probably love it.

[@lockofmetal8894]

Bold of her to think any V tuber stream isn't scuffed.

[@Robulite]

Not only does Holy stun but it does less damage than every other healer. If you want a fast dungeon run use SCH/SGE let's go zoom time!

[@herebejamz]

The pro strat as a WHM is to wait for the TBN to pop once. Then spam holy so TBN will pop after stun stops sticking.

[@deathlegion6713]

It's sad but true

[@Kojiro3210]

I rebelliously play SCH in dungeons, and I'm sure all the speed runners sigh in disappointment but dont want to eat the 30m queue penalty to try to get that whm in the dungeon instead xD

[@xenoblad]

Love her content

[@thatoneguyffs]

As white mage is my only healer job lved up it is safe to say white mages dont push bene as much as they should.

[@Aspharro]

Idk why she mald about Scholar in the dps department it's certainly strong

[@SilverNightbane]

It's meme'd to death but that combat peloton has saved us so many times in P1S's Fourfold Shackles...

[@Amphidsf]

This video was before Endwalker actually was out

[@vladimirmendez3028]

the reason we like drk look at ff11 i mean old guys like me. reaper is what drk was in ff11 in a way. drk where D dps of cost of your own life.. in ff11

[@bob513993]

7:15 A random reaper told me to use Living Dead on cool down and proceeded to pull all the mobs ahead of me when I didn’t. I let him die. 8:30 I run scholar cuz I like actually using my kit.

[@danielmantell8751]

Good man, let those scum bags die. Just because a reaper can hold Aggro for a few seconds without dying doesn't make them a tank.

[@bob513993]

@@danielmantell8751 Funniest part was we were level synced to 49 because it was Aurum Vale. I couldn’t have done what they said I should even if I wanted to.

[@bronchiel]

xeno is the way i find good content creators

[@jellydamgood]

Please give dungeon sustain yoship

[@apachers2807]

Skipper strumer transforming into story strumer whats happening

[@bigsmiley713]

great reaction!!

[@harrygraham5810]

guts from berserk and 99% of anime main characters is why JP loves DRK

[@starbard691]

Still prefer gnb drk over pld or war tbh. Don't know why but guess I'm a freak for it

[@Qardo]

(Sarcasm) I blame that damn Reaper for weakening the Dark Knight. He just had to show up and try to be edger and cooler. All because he weilds a big ass scythe and wears leathers that scream "I AM AN EDGELORD!" When originally Dark Knight used to be a DPS and wielded a Scythe too. And so forth. In hindsight, Reaper is kind of a terrible job to pick. I mean cool new Melee DPS class. Though it is an Edgelord class. We already have an Edgelord, Dark Knight. Now the power of the Edgelord Force is being split! And Dark Knight is getting weaker!!

[@ReddemonEyez]

That's why I switched to warrior

[@Opusss]

I love Lyse but I get why people probably think she is detached and self absorbed. I don't think she is but I think that is most often the criticism when people talk about her.

[@Adalon-]

One of my favorite youtubers being covered by another favorite? Today is a good day

[@KrazyBean14]

Hey man, DRK does the most damage so it's perfectly fine Kappa.

[@Padrino_Tommy]

its actual tank without sustain)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))

[@Kijokobodo79]

I usually skip a few patch after new expansion drop, when I start again (usually around X.3 patch) I train my tanking skill in dungeon with drk since it's the most uncomfortable tank for me.

[@Padrino_Tommy]

Most of people simping DRK cause job quest line and im understand they but, but actual gameplay in comprasion with other is true suffer.

[@dedexter88]

turns out SCH isn't in a bad position like DRK in 6.0

[@Zoeila]

Drk is a good class. As a healer main its my favorite tank to play

[@lightests]

Before Endwalker ... As a non-tank main it is noticeably less fun and panic inducing ever since 6.0.

[@StatiicDreams]

DRK mains are still stuck in the 2000's listening to Linkin Park while huffing their insane supply of copium. Prove me wrong. You can't. You know I'm right. Their kit sucks, they lost their edge factor to reaper, they have nothing.

[@sasukeuchiha998]

The only good thing they can brag about is being most used in savage.

[@blastchaos4286]

Big sword and dark goopy go brrr

[@thecthuloser876]

No longer a DRK main, but hwen I was, I was more Voltarie than Linkin Park.

[@danielmantell8751]

I mean, I don't like Linkin Park.

[@Leispada]

on one hand im like.. should I give this game a try On the other I hear all this lingo and opinions and... do I really like mmo's enough ?

[@DynomitePunch]

saw this thumb in my recommended, not gonna lie, thought you where ginger billy for a second their dude