A comprehensive showcase of every single ability that has been removed from this job over the years. Let me know of who you’d like to see next!
Alternate version with different music and no text:
– https://youtu.be/Z2rZYp4vJTM
Here’s the list of the Job Actions that were removed:
– Shadowskin
– Old Low Blow / Forward Kick
– Old Reprisal
– Darkside / Deep Darkside
– Blood Price
– Dark Passenger
– Brimstone [Earth]
– Dark Dance
– Dark Arts
– Sole Survivor
– Tar Pit / Land of the Dead
– Carnal Chill
– Spinning Slash
– Power Slash
– Old Delirium / Sacred Blade
– Scourge
MUSIC:
– FINAL FANTASY XIV: SHADOWBRINGERS (To The Edge)
Composed by Masayoshi Soken, with lyrics written by Michael-Christopher Koji Fox and vocals by Jason Charles Miller. The lyric concept was conceived by Natsuko Ishikawa for Patch 5.3’s ‘Reflections in Crystal’.
TOOLS USED:
– Godbert
– FFXIV Explorer
– CMTool
– XIVLauncher
– Skillswap
– VFXEditor
– Penumbra
– Textools
EDITING SOFTWARE:
– VEGAS Pro 17.0
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#FinalFantasyXIV
#Endwalker
#DarkKnight
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Ah ty for the compilation. Easier than telling my friends "yeah so x had this ability it was cool" and them proceeding to not understand what the fuck it was
The only one I don't miss is Dark Arts
…reprisal and low blow used to be DRK skills? I joined in SB and didn't pick up DRK until ShB. A lot of these animations look really cool….
Square Enix right here striping the dark knight of most of its style and they still call Fordola the butcher
Scourge, Delirium, and Sole Suvivor you will forever be missed.
The Dark Arts animation is still so fucking good.
DRK you have became a shadow of your former self.
Only one i dont miss is dark passenger, flood of shadow and shadowbringer are so much better as "shoots darkness beams" out of your sword moves.
Scourge was bae
So much…wasted. @@ future DRK.
These animations were sick. Man… what a time we had
dark knight was so good back in HW that they have to "sunder" it and split it to other tanks
1. dark dance = anticipation (back in STB)
2. low blow
3. reprisal4
4. delirium (animation) = interject
endwalker DRK is now 9/14th of its former self
Wow some of those are sick. Kind of sad to see how drk is now. Still a awesome job
They really repackaged Dark Passenger, called it Shadowbringer, and called it a day with EW DRK
Scourge 😭
Very well made video.
would pay to see someone make a mod that replaces current animations with these
lol started playing in ShB and current DRK animations and sound effects both are so bland and boring compared to some of these.
rip all these amazing animations
You have to show spinning slash INTO power slash, cmon now. Show everyone how batshit it is that siphon/souleater are the animations we’re stuck with just because of their old effects 😂
dark arts + dark passenger + dark dance and dark arts + abyssal drain spam.
Very cool trip down memory lane. Would love to see MCH's removed skills next
Is there actually any way to replace some of new skills with some of the old? Like some kind of mad. Is there any files of these skills? Like animations and effects
I like how the ending lyric was "All our splendor, bathed black in silence." Meanwhile you cut it off after "All our splendor" and then it's just silent and pitch black. If intentional, I see you. If not, providence.
Did you had footage of these recorded from back then on Heavensward? This is amazing
I wish that DRK had some sort of actual identity. Now it's just "The Edgy Tank" and the entirety of its identity is "The Blackest Knight-kun." Dark Knight should be the drain tank that Warrior currently is, and Warrior should be the extremely high damage tank with barely maintained defenses that Dark Knight currently is.
Man… I want to cry… Drk was so fun… I can only hope for a remake of the class but I doubt that it will ever happen…
So many doomers in the comments lol
Why do you torment me like this?.. Dark Knight is never gonna be restored to its former glory…
DRK seriously needs some of these abilities now! Compared to the other tanks, it seems pretty behind. When i run dungeons, i just get rekt always waiting for TBK to come back up to be gone in 2 seconds while praying the healer is spamming heals on me.
Ayo gimme back that tar pit skill🤣
SE fucked this job to point of no return. It's clear as day that they DON'T play their own game, and have no idea how to balance and make some jobs. It's bizzare honestly, seeing how godly DRK was in HW, and how braindead it is and destroyed in EW. SE really need to get their shit together and don't give us new jobs, but rework the current bad ones.
This right here…is the reason I got into the game back in HW. Your telling me I could be an edgy Knight throwing around darkness and looking damn good doing it, SIGN ME UP!!! And so I grinded paladin through ARR with the sole purpose of unlocking Dark Knight. The job back then was the definition of clunky between Dark Arts, keeping Darkside up (it had a constant MP drain and would fall off if MP hit 0), and some of the weird buffs/debuffs but the feeling of always having something to do and being able to choose how I wanted to spend my MP in an offensive manner unlike Paladin felt good.
Maybe it's just me wearing some rose tinted glasses but this made Dark Knight feel way different then all the other tanks and it had a unique identity as an MP Tank, these days (at least in my opinion) it feels like Warrior with a few differences here and there (a few extra OGCDs, Non-crit Inner Release, Holmgang but terrible etc.)
I didn't mind the streamline back in Shadowbringers but I do think Dark Knight lost some of that unique flavor over the years…and I do think that's a shame, really hope they give it a rework sometime there certainly seems to be enough people upset about the state of it so it could happen.
Maybe not go quite as far back as the mega clunky days, but maybe give it some love here and there.
My boy, what have they done to you, gods i miss DRK being complex
Damn some are more awesome than some of the current move
Man, so cool to see these in action in a high def video. I would love if some of these were restored! (Yoshi P, if you see this…)
Man, I WISH I could have played this DRK. Even cooler looking attacks with actual self-sustain? Sign me right the hell up!
clearly the sign that the devs dont know what they are doing, by removing any of these.
Ah, wish you added the icons too. That's how I remember abilities xD
the one i miss the most is sole survivor.. also blood price