Hey pals

[Keuven]

Im just curious what you would want to see in a DK. I hoping VG will bring what we want with this class. Also anyone from sk.org here?

[Zer033x]

Personally I hope the Dread Knight is debuff based. What we know is that we're a defensive tank, that we have crowd control spells, and that we have an aura that debuffs enemies. As much as I liked being an SK in EQ I don't want to get too caught up with expecting a certain way the Dread Knight should be because of the EQ SK. With that said I could live without a lot things that SKs could do, but one thing that I really hope the Dread Knight has that the SK did is invisibility.

What should be the focus of the Dread Knight? Well, the EQ SK was focused in my opinion on defensive tanking, hate, fear, and study in dark magic. The insane agro abilities we had stemmed from our focus on hate and fear, and syphoning life stemmed from our focus on dark magic. If the Dread Knight turns out to be like that I'll still be happy, but I wouldn't mind a refocusing.

I think the Dread Knight will be focused on defensive tanking and fear. What I mean by fear is effects that will result from causing fear in the enemy. The effects that could occur from such a power would be debuffing, stunning, possibly damage over time, and even agro abilities.

The way I see it is fear can cause all those types of abilities so they all make sense to incorporate into the Dread Knight. First, causing an enemy fear can weaken their ability to fight back which leads to debuff abilities. If the fear is intense enough it could even cause the target to go into shock hence the stun abilities. The fear could even cause problems with adrenaline and the heart which could possibly make sense to have damage over time spells. Finally, fear can cause an enemy to become desperate and fight for their life which leads logically to agro abilities.

We must also have a pretty big ego because everything we do is to further our own cause and we scare everything that is near us. This has to have some effect on our confidence as a fighter to be able to strike fear into anything so as a result I think we should also have a good amount of self buffs.

If a Dread Knight's main thing in this game is fear and confidence I can envision a class similar to that listed above.

[Blood_Raven]

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Much love

Raven

[Romycon]

I know what you mean as far as all the things fear can cause. For example the Screaming Terror spell necromancers got. I'm not sure if that was a verant or sony spell because I didn't play a necro but it was a spell to mesmerize the target into just standing there and screaming heh.

As to abilities fear can cause, i wonder if there would be a way to summon a kind of phantom caused by the target's fear that they so believe is real it causes them harm? That would be another way to do a DoT spell.

[Skellen]

Originally Posted by Romycon

As to abilities fear can cause, i wonder if there would be a way to summon a kind of phantom caused by the target's fear that they so believe is real it causes them harm? That would be another way to do a DoT spell.

That would be pretty cool and unique. A random fear conjuration based on the type of mob and it's level.

I wonder if they've considered temporary aura's for this class also, very intensive for the DK to maintain, the cost being power over time and loss of certain abilities mainly. Bored at work and brainstorming.

[Blood_Raven]

I know its a bit necro. But what if every creature had a fear just like humans. and there was a spell that would conjur that specific fear? and the higher the lvl the more "realistic" and more stun would be applied? any thoughts?

Much love

Raven