Dark Knight Skills Overview

Abilities will be presented in a tabular format for easy reading.

Single Target Actions

Icon	Action	Abbreviation	Level	Type	Recast	Description
	Hard Slash	HS	1	Weaponskill	2.5 seconds	The first action in your main combo. Delivers an attack with a potency of 170.
	Syphon Strike	SS	2	Weaponskill	2.5 seconds	The second action in your main combo. Delivers an attack with a combo potency of 260. Restores 600 MP.
	Souleater	SE	26	Weaponskill	2.5 seconds	The final action in your main combo. Delivers an attack with a combo potency of 340. Restores the users HP by a cure potency of 300. Generates 20 Blood Gauge.
	Grit		10	Ability	2 seconds	Dark Knight’s tank stance. Significantly increases enmity generation.
	Unmend		15	Spell	2.5 seconds	Deals unaspected damage to the target for 150 potency (counts as 750 potency for enmity purposes). Reduces the timer of Plunge by 5 seconds.
	Bloodspiller	BS	62	Weaponskill	2.5 seconds	Delivers an attack with a potency of 500. Costs 50 Blood Gauge.
	Edge of Shadow	Edge	74	Ability	1 second	Deals unaspected damage to the target for 460 potency. Grants 30 seconds of Darkside, increasing damage dealt by 10%. Costs 3000 MP.
	Plunge		54	Ability	30 seconds	Dark Knight’s dash, also delivers an attack with a potency of 150. Can hold up to two charges.
	Delirium		68	Ability	60 seconds	Grants three stacks of Delirium, with each stack nullifying Blood Gauge cost on Bloodspiller or Quietus. Restores 200 MP for each Bloodspiller and 500 MP for each Quietus landed under the buff. Stacks last 15 seconds.
	Blood Weapon	BW	35	Ability	60 seconds	Grants five stacks of Blood Weapon, with each stack increasing Blood Gauge by 10 and restoring 600 MP upon landing a weaponskill or spell. Stacks last 15 seconds.
	Carve and Spit	C&S, CaS, CnS	60	Ability	60 seconds	Delivers an attack with a potency of 510. Restores 600 MP. Shares a recast timer with Abyssal Drain.
	Living Shadow		80	Ability	120 seconds	Summons a simulacrum of your darkside to fight beside you. Living Shadow lasts 20 seconds. While summoned, simulacrum will execute six actions, all but one dealing 350 potency. Two of these actions deal AoE damage. The simulacrum is able to execute Shadowbringer once, dealing 500 potency to the initial target. Deals 25% less damage to all other nearby enemies in a straight line before it. Costs 50 Blood Gauge.
	Salted Earth		52	Ability	90 seconds	Places a ground targeted AoE dealing 50 potency per tick. Lasts 15 seconds.
	Salt and Darkness		86	Ability	20 seconds	Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 500 to the first target standing in Salted Earth, and 50% less damage to all remaining enemies.
	Shadowbringer		90	Ability	60 seconds	Deals unaspected damage to the initial target for 600 potency, and 50% less to all remaining enemies in a straight line before the user. Can hold up to two charges.

Multi-Target Actions

Icon	Action	Abbreviation	Level	Type	Recast	Description
	Unleash		6	Spell	2.5 seconds	Deals aspected damage with a potency of 120 to all nearby enemies.
	Stalwart Soul		72	Spell	2.5 seconds	Deals aspected damage with a combo potency of 140 to all nearby enemies. Restores 600 MP. Increases Blood Gauge by 20.
	Quietus		64	Weaponskill	2.5 seconds	Delivers an attack with a potency of 200 to all nearby enemies. Costs 50 Blood Gauge.
	Flood of Shadow		74	Ability	1 second	Deals unaspected damage to the target for 160 potency in a straight line before you. Grants 30 seconds of Darkside, increasing damage dealt by 10%. Costs 3000 MP.
	Abyssal Drain	AD	56	Ability	60 seconds	Deals aspected damage for 240 potency to the target and all surrounding enemies. Restores 600 MP and heals for 200 potency worth of healing. Shares a recast timer with Carve and Spit.

Mitigative Actions

Icon	Action	Abbreviation	Level	Type	Recast	Description
	Rampart	Ramp	8	Ability	90 seconds	Reduces damage taken by 20% for 20 seconds.
	Reprisal	Rep	22	Ability	60 seconds	Reduces all damage dealt by nearby enemies by 10% for ten seconds.
	Arm’s Length	AL	32	Ability	120 seconds	Applies a buff that nullifies most draw-in and knockback effects, lasting six seconds. When enemies strike you while this buff is active, they receive a 20% slow debuff for 15s.
	Shadow Wall		38	Ability	120 seconds	Reduces damage taken by 30% for 15 seconds.
	Dark Mind	DM	45	Ability	60 seconds	Reduces magic damage taken by 20% for ten seconds.
	Living Dead	LD	50	Ability	300 seconds	Grants the effect of Living Dead for 10 seconds. If HP drops to 0 while active, status will change to Walking Dead, with a duration of ten seconds. While under the effect of Walking Dead, most attacks will not drop your HP below 1, and you will heal for 1500 potency per target hit with weaponskills or spells. If you are healed for an amount equal to 100% of your maximum HP, Walking Dead is replaced with the Undead Rebirth buff, retaining its duration. Undead Rebirth prevents most attacks from dropping your HP below 1, but does not have the healing effect of Walking Dead. If the Walking Dead debuff expires without being converted into Undead Rebirth, you will be KO’d.
	The Blackest Night	TBN	70	Ability	15 seconds	Places a shield on the target totaling 25% of their HP. If shield is broken, grants the user Dark Arts which allows one free use of Edge of Shadow or Flood of Shadow. Costs 3000 MP.
	Dark Missionary		76	Ability	90 seconds	Reduces magic damage taken by self and nearby party members by 10% for 15 seconds.
	Oblation		82	Ability	60 seconds	Reduces damage taken by self or party member by 10% for ten seconds. Can hold up to two stacks.

Tank Role Actions

| Icon	Action	Abbreviation	Level	Type	Recast	Description
	Provoke	Voke	15	Ability	30 seconds	Places yourself at the top of the target’s enmity list, while gaining additional enmity.
	Shirk		48	Ability	120 seconds	Diverts 25% of enmity onto the target party member.
	Interject		18	Ability	30 seconds	Effectively a silence. Interrupts certain enemy actions.
	Low Blow		12	Ability	25 seconds	Stuns the target for five seconds.