Dark Knight
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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 members are ones that can apply status ailments like blind, poison, curse 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 Curse Spike, 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Skill Name | Effect | Shadow Veil Effect | Cost |
| Summon Shadow | Summons a shadow. The type depends on the level used. STR will increase a shadow's ATK and INT will increase a shadow's MATK. | Doubles the amount of summons able to be used. | 10% MaxHP |
| Creeping Shadow | Deals low damage based on the user's CONTROL stat and heal HP and SP depending on the damage dealt. If a Shadow Lord is active, commands it to use it's attack on the target. | Healing is doubled. | No cost |
| Genocide | Deals low shadow element magic damage to a target and enemies around it and inflict the genocide status on enemies hit. Genocide status increases damage taken from Dark Knight summons' skills. | Doubles the damage increase. | 20% MaxHP |
| Promotion | This skill can only target your own shadow summons (NOT LORD). Promotes the unit into a stronger version with increased stats and more/better skills. | None | 20% MaxHP |
| Shadow Veil | Gives additional effects, improves buffs/debuff and allows you to summon more shadows. | None | 50% MaxSP |
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| Shadow Lord | REQUIRES LEVEL 100 OR HIGHER TO USE. Summons a powerful shadow, that has their own attacks and buffs that is SEMI-CONTROLABLE. Please check the summon list for info. | None | 30% MaxHP |
| Shadow Assault | Places your Shadow Lord into attack mode. It will attack nearby enemies with their basic attack. Please check the summon list for info. | None | None |
| Shadow Action | Changes your Shadow Lord into action mode. When cast it will use it's action ONCE (due to how skill queueing works, it may whiff, I'm working on the issue). Please check the summon list for info. | None | 10% MaxHP and 10% MaxSP |
| Shadow Assist | Changes your Shadow Lord into assist mode. When cast it will use it's assist ONCE (due to how skill queueing works, it may whiff, I'm working on the issue). Please check the summon list for info. | None | 10% MaxHP and 10% MaxSP |
