Darkknight

Reversal of Curses

Dark Knight Requires Base Level 15 and Job Level 10 to start the quest.

The Dark Knight has the highest damage potential among all other job classes. The risk it requires taking to fulfill this, however, cannot be ignored by the player. Its rotations are based on correct management and attention to risks of the class.

Best: Massive damage potential, multiple resources for any situation, unique properties.

Worst: Very high risk, complex, requires precise gameplay to not underperform.

Weapons: Swords, Knight Swords (2-handed, very rare).

Gameplay Identity

The Dark Knight will always be risking its health in order to further boost its damage, making it:

A powerful warrior that will fight under a specific set of rules in order to extract the most out of its own risk as pure damage.

Due to its constant lack of HP, a good Dark Knight is required to be well aware of the damage potential of its targets. It should not be mistaken for a tank, but instead, acts as a pure DPS machine.

A higher level Dark Knight has access to Black Heart, which allows it to guarantee leeching damage dealt in order to continue on the offensive regardless of the situation.

Core Gameplay

The use of Vengeance as a key opener is essential to deal constant damage. Some situations may not even require using any of the follow-up skills possible.

The great crowd control of Chilling Frost, which deals physical damage, makes it a reliable tool to control the situation of the fight due to its quick use and massive freeze chance.

The key feature of an offensive Dark Knight is Harvest, a stance that blocks most healing to a dark knight, but allows its missing HP bonus damage to reach the highest potential, by turning the fight into a kill or be killed situation. Harvest is a strong stance that requires running risks greater than any other job in the game, with incredible pay-off.

The Dark Knight has multiple tools to freeze, manage, and move around the fight while dealing heavy damage, correct analysis of the risk is essential to ensure the correct skill can deal massive damage, unlike any other job class.

Skills

All Dark Knight Skills deal bonus damage according to missing HP. Damage bonus is boosted if the Dark Knight is under Harvest Mode.

Skill	Max Level	Description	Skill Type	Details	Scaling
Blade Mastery	Lv 10	Increases attack with swords and daggers per level.	Passive	Also increases ASPD by 1% per level. Dark Knights can only use swords	No
Flesh Mastery	Lv 10	Greatly increases the regeneration of stats while sitting	Passive	The amount recovered can reach over half the max HP/SP of the Dark Knight	No
Harvest	Lv 5	Blocks flat healing values from skills in order to boost missing HP damage	Stance	Items and Leeching can still heal the caster, also increases STR and INT	No
Knight Ritual	Lv 10	Increases AGI and DEX by a % amount based on total	Self-Buff	Also removes Harvest when used	None
Vengeance	Lv 10	Deals damage to an enemy and enables combo follow-up from other skills	Offensive Melee	Skill has a small chance to freeze if Black Heart is learned	STR
Devil Raid	Lv 5	Dashes to an enemy and deals damage, enables combo follow-up	Ranged Gap-Closer	Can be used to quickly jump to a target for follow-ups	DEX
Fatal Menace	Lv 10	Damages all enemies around with an aggressive strike	AoE around Self	Area increases at Lv5 and Lv10, combo ready adds STR/VIT scaling	STR
Night Menace	Lv 10	Deals heavy damage to an enemy based on its defense	Melee	Increased by current HP when used by itself, combo ready adds STR scaling	None
Death Bound	Lv 5	Amplifies damage taken and reflects 60% of the value back to enemy, taking 40% of the damage	Melee	Cannot be used on boss monsters	None
Conflagration	Lv 10	Deals Dark followed by Undead magic damage to enemies around a target	Magic AoE on target	First hit is always dark, 3 follow-up hits are always undead element	None
Chilling Frost	Lv 5	Freezes the air around the enemy dealing light damage with a high freeze chance	Physical Ranged AoE	Area is larger at Lv5, damage is always ghost element and physical	INT
Shatter Cross	Lv 10	Strikes an enemy with a powerful shattering strike	Physical Ranged	Damage is increased according to current SP, additional STR scaling vs frozen targets	None
Black Metal	Lv 5	Increases the ATK and MATK of all party members	Party Support	Removes harvest mode when used	None
Black Heart	Lv 1	Removes a piece of your heart to create a consumable item to be used later, max of 3	Self-Support	Black Heart consumable allows 100% leeching of 10% physical damage dealt for 1 second per Base Level	None