Dark Knight

Overview

Dark Knight is the first custom class introduced on Trifecta RO. It's based on Ragnarok DS, Ragnarok Tactics(PSP), other various forms of media unrelated to RO, and my own ideas spun into the mix.

To learn any skill, you must learn the passive "From the Void", which disables natural SP regeneration. SP is regenerated by using Blood Crush, Drain, Creeping shadow, or consumables, and is meant to be used as a sort of special meter, similar to how AP functions on fourth job classes. After that one passive, all other skills are free to learn without a skill tree. This is to allow for highly customizable builds, and opens up the class to both simple and complex builds depending on what the user wants.

Dark Knight has multiple different builds and playstyles, which are shaped by the passive you choose to take.
Only one of the following passives may be utilized at the same time, picking multiple will negate all bonuses.

Dark Blade

The DPS passive.

Adds a portion of your MATK and magical damage multiplier to physical attacks. Also increases damage dealt to enemies with a status ailment (stuff like blind or poison)
This allows you to use magical damage equipment on top of the normal melee, range, physical and critical damage. Please note that this only applies to MAGICAL DAMAGE (stuff like spellcasting, or shadow magic +10% DO NOT APPLY).

Since you deal extra damage versus targets with status ailments, this means your best party mates are ones that can apply status ailments like blind, poison, etc. A full list will be added later, but it covers nearly anything that can be considered a debuff.
Classes like soul linker, dancer, some monk builds and assassins make great party members that highly compliment this playstyle.

Arcane Arts

The tank passive. Reduces damage taken from all size enemies depending on skill level. This passive synergizes with certain skills to allow for extreme survivability.

Shadow Mastery

The summon passive. Increases the amount of shadows you're allowed to have out. Increases control, and increases stats on your shadow lord.

Universally used buffs

• Chaos: Converts buffs gained through skills into the chaos version. Each effect would be listed in each applicable skill's description. If chaos is activated WITHOUT the specific buff active, grants the user the chaos buff, which alters the effect of dark energy and drain.
  

NOTE: ONLY ONE CHAOS EFFECT CAN BE ACTIVE AT ONCE!!

• Life Taker: Any time you auto-attack a target, heal (1% per skill level) of your maxHP per attack. If you use a skill, heal (2% per skill level) of damage dealt, then the buff is removed. | Chaos life: drains the user's HP per second to increase damage dealt by 50%.
• Blood Crush: Any time you auto-attack a target, heal (1% per skill level) of your maxSP per attack. If you use a skill, heal (2% per skill level) of damage dealt, then the buff is removed. | Chaos blood: drains the user's SP per second to increase damage dealt by 30%

How skills work

Some Dark Knight skills will grant the user a buff for 15 seconds. That buff is removed as soon as you use a skill or the duration has expired.

How chaos works

When a Dark Knight buff is active on the user (punishment for example), it shifts that buff into chaos mode after using the chaos skill (chaos punishment). The chaos version of the buff does not get removed after skill usage, and can be stacked with normal Dark Knight buffs, but NOT OTHER CHAOS BUFFS. Only one chaos buff can be active at a time. Please note each effect in the table below for a in depth look at what each buff does in both normal mode and chaos mode.

If chaos is used without any buffs active, you gain the chaos buff. This buff does nothing on it's own. It will, however, change the effects of Curse Spike, Drain and Dark Energy. In the table below, it is mentioned what the changed skills do.

Skills

Physical Skills
Skill Name	Effect	Self Buff	Chaos Effect	Cost
Hard Slash	No additional effect	None	None	None
Massacre	No additional effect, deals more damage than Hard Slash	None	None	10% current HP
Black Out	Deal area damage and has a chance to cause the blind status. If a target is already blind, auto-cast dark surge. (dark surge is a high damage area attack)	None	None	5% current HP
Punishment	Deal damage to a target. If the target's HP is 30% or lower, increase damage dealt by 20x.	Increases damage dealt to any target below 30% HP.	When YOUR HP is below 30%, increase damage dealt by 100%.	5% current HP
Guillotine	This skill will always critically strike. If the target is 10 or more levels below the user, instantly kill the target (does not apply to bosses).	Critical + 100	Critical damage +50%	30% max SP
Death Blade	Deals damage to a target.	The next Dark Knight skill will hit 3 times.	Has a chance to cause coma on a target when auto-attacking.	5% current HP
Curse Spike	Deal low damage to a target. Inflicts a status on the target depending on which passive is learned. If Dark Blade is learned, reduce the target's DEF to 0. If Arcane Arts is leveled, reduce damage dealt by 70%.	None	If Chaos is active before casting this skill, grant the user a buff that reduces damage dealt and damage taken by 70%.	10% current HP
Dark Energy	Deal damage to a target and has a high chance to inflict the Curse status.	None	If Chaos is active before casting this skill, it becomes a multi-hit attack that will bounce between nearby enemies. Each enemy hit has a chance to be inflicted with the rebound status.	5% current HP
Dark Wave	Deal area damage.	Any Dark Knight area skill has a chance to inflict the fear status.	Auto-cast Chaos Wave when auto-attacking a target or hitting an enemy with a Dark Knight area skill.	5% current HP
Hell Impact	Jump to an enemy, dealing single target damage, then immediately inflict area damage to surrounding enemies.	Any Dark Knight area skill has a chance to inflict the burning or bleeding status.	Increase area damage dealt.	5% current HP
Death Embrace	Causes all enemies within range to attack the user. (This depends on enemies' sight range, otherwise it is map-wide.)	None	None	5% current HP
Minus Strike	Deal damage depending on how low your current HP is compared to your maxHP.	None	None	25% current HP
Drain	Deal area damage to a target and enemies around it. Heal HP based on a portion of the damage dealt.	None	If Chaos is active before casting this skill, heal SP instead.	None
Dark Nebula	Deal area damage to a target and enemies around it. Deals more damage depending on the combined levels of Dark Blade and all other physical Dark Knight skills.	None	None	20% current HP

Shadow Summon skills
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