Damage · DRK
Greatsword and forbidden arts. Spends blood for power.
In a party
End the fight. One with a greatsword and borrowed dark, one with the whole sky.
Heavy, slow, hard-hitting. Soul Eater and Blood Weapon spend your own health to make the greatsword hit harder, and Drain buys it back from the monster.
Every Dark Knight weaponskill past the first is shadow, and the chains run long. In a party they deal damage; alone, they last longer than they look like they should.
Heartwood · guild of the Dark Knight
Heartwood remembers what the empire took, and the grudge-keepers are the ones who remember it hardest. Their arts were banned once. Heartwood kept them anyway.
“Everything has a price. We just pay ours up front, and in person.”
Heartwood’s claim: Grievance. The never-conquered and the displaced, holding a writ that reads “Restitution upon Return.”
Stats
Each stat starts at a base and gains a fixed amount every level; the race then multiplies it. HP is 30 plus 19 a level, times the race’s HP modifier, plus Vitality. MP is 10 plus 5 a level, times the MP modifier.
| Stat | Level 1 | Per level | Level 50 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STRStrength | 11 | +2.8 | 148 |
| VITVitality | 6 | +1.5 | 80 |
| AGIAgility | 7 | +1.6 | 85 |
| INTIntelligence | 7 | +1.6 | 85 |
| MNDMind | 4 | +0.6 | 33 |
| HPHit points | 55 | +19 | 1060 |
| MPMagic points | 15 | +5 | 260 |
Aedri figures, before gear. HP includes Vitality.
A level 50 Aedri Dark Knight, before gear. Bars are measured against the highest any job and race reach at level 50.
Abilities
15 abilities from level 1 to 50. Click a column to sort.
| Ability | Kind | Lv | Cost | Cast | Recast | Element | Target | Effect | Combo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hard Slash | Weaponskill | 1 | 100 TP | Instant | — | Steel | Enemy | A heavy descending cut. Opens skillchains.Power ×2 | Opener |
| Soul Eater | Job ability | 5 | 10% HP | Instant | 40 s | — | Self | Feed your own blood to the blade. Costs HP; greatly raises damage.+30% damage · 12 s | — |
| Drain | Spell | 8 | 10 MP | 2.2 s | — | Shadow | Enemy | Steals the target's life for your own.Power 26 | — |
| Shadow Cleave | Weaponskill | 12 | 100 TP | Instant | — | Shadow | Enemy | A cut that trails darkness. Continues skillchains.Power ×2.5 | After Hard Slash |
| Last Resort | Job ability | 15 | — | Instant | 60 s | — | Self | Abandon defense for power.+25% damage · 20 s | — |
| Nightfall | Weaponskill | 18 | 100 TP | Instant | — | Shadow | Enemy | The dark made edge. A devastating close to skillchains.Power ×2.9 | After Shadow Cleave |
| Bio | Spell | 22 | 18 MP | 2.4 s | — | Shadow | Enemy | A rot spoken onto the target.Power 60 | — |
| Shadow Scythe | Weaponskill | 26 | 100 TP | Instant | — | Shadow | Enemy | A reaping arc of borrowed dark.Power ×2.7 | After Shadow Cleave |
| Absorb | Spell | 30 | No MP | 2 s | — | Shadow | Enemy | Takes the target's mana as interest owed.Power 24 | — |
| Drain II | Spell | 34 | 30 MP | 2.4 s | — | — | Enemy | Takes deeper. The dark is a lender, not a giver.Power 90 | — |
| Weapon Bash | Job ability | 38 | — | Instant | 60 s | — | Enemy | The pommel, delivered without ceremony. Stuns briefly.Power 1 · 3 s | — |
| Torment | Weaponskill | 42 | 100 TP | Instant | — | Shadow | Enemy | The greatsword remembers every debt at once.Power ×3.1 | After Shadow Scythe |
| Guillotine | Weaponskill | 46 | 100 TP | Instant | — | Shadow | Enemy | The sentence, carried out. Closes the shadow chain.Power ×3.3 | After Torment |
| Blood Weapon | Job ability | 48 | — | Instant | 120 s | — | Self | The blade drinks, and pays you its cut.+35% damage · 20 s | — |
| Bio II | Spell | 50 | 44 MP | 2.8 s | — | Shadow | Enemy | The rot, itemised, with interest.Power 200 | — |
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Weaponskills
A Dark Knight weaponskill that names an opener strikes 30% harder when it follows that opener within 10 seconds. Separately, any two weaponskills whose elements follow the cycle make a skillchain, whoever uses them.
Gear
A Dark Knight wields greatswords and wears cloth, leather or chain. A few standout pieces at each stage, chosen for the stats this job grows into: