Dread Knight Abilities

[Exodiac]

I leaned more toward life taps because I invision Dread Knights as the sort to wade into battle, absorbing the life forces of the wounded adversary, maintaining or gaining strength with every blow.

My vision from an RP'ers perspective of course.

[Tazzrin Jaegernaut]

I chose lifetap because that amount of hp you just stole could mean the difference between life and death; even with a healer in the group.

[Keuven]

I know this is old but life taps were the best thing i loved about a dark/evil knight in EQ. I really loved to crush and steal the life force out of my foes. So if they give us any necroish type abilitys i do hope its life stealing.

[godzilr1]

I want to melt faces........with Lifetaps

[Deadjester]

Its hard for me to just pick one, a DK seems to be the mix of many things dreadful. Fear, Life Taps, Foul Magic.

Fear to weaken all your enemies around you, maybe even cause a success check as if interuppted for those who cast magic.

I see the dots as not only causeing some damage but debuffing while they are working.

Life Taps that use the enemies own life force to heal your self so that you may out last him.

So that while we may not do as much damage as others, neither will our enemies while in our presence!

[Reakk]

In order: Fear
Debuffs
DoT's
Lifetap's

[Shizzrak]

I would go with fears and debuffs, mostly because I'm not really seeing the whole lifetaps thing as viable for the dread knight, I think it's way to much association with the shadowknight of EQ.

Since it was said a couple times that the dreadknight is most definitely not a shadowknight, I'm reluctant to assume that any of those staple eq abilities will transfer across, and think that there will be more emphasis placed on using fear and demoralization as weapons.

[Candesious]

I'd have to go with Leaches.Dot's and Debuffs and a nice stun(fear) might be nice as well.

[Xarothiell]

If I were to think of SKs...one spell I loved was FD. I love to tank, but I love split pulling even more heh.

But back to the topic. Going with the theme of DKs as using fear and intimidation, one spell from EQ1 would fit very very well.

Voice line (Voice of Terris / Thule, etc)

They could probably conjur up something along that idea. Something to augment hate or making the idea wilder, make it a PBAE spell that instills fear (thus stuns) in mobs. Something like a war cry for roleplaying purposes. They can always put a decent recast to make the spell useful but not overpowering in any way to prevent exploitation.

[safwd]

I love life taps but i think i would really like to see some kind of Dark Aura.
It should give some form of visual effect and should demorilize your opponent lowering its attack and defense.
Plus could chain this with fear spells to make them more powerful.