u/vlunae

There are:

- Judgement, a 30s CD nuke from the talent tree, then there's Torchlight that's kinda the same fiery nuke, with a 20s cooldown. I think it could be one skill, with like 10 or 15s CD, and not two.
- Two versions of the same basic attack, Dawn and Dusk blade, except the other one is not even used, Dusk Blade could be a talent for the Dawn Blade instead (it could've been an email xd)
- All the different tonics, and even one more from talents
- TRAPS, but also another stun from the talent tree with a 2 min CD, fck yeah stunlock but together they take a lot of space xd And if u want to do a Scourge Trap against a Necro or Felsworn, u need to keep it somewhere accessible to quickly click in their proximity. I mean the stuns are cool ofc
- 3min CD self-buff Stoicism, or Dark Aura that disables itself after u die, so u need to reclick it
- Casting Interruption that needs to be ofc clicked quickly, or an anti-CC trinket...... mind that u normally have space for these things, but here u have to sacrifice close hotkeys for these two as they need to be instantly accessible, and there are a lot of things there wanting a close comfy hotkey aswell :D
- Dark Regeneration, a lot of usage so it needs to be kept somewhjere close... just as FIery Judgement, and Torchlight.... and Smite as the main spammable skill, if ure in a dungeon... oh and I forgot about FLOURISH, on a 1min cooldown, it's a very cool skill used whenever avaible xd
- All the oither CCs, like Caltrops, dash, another dash from the talent tree, crossbow pull, bola slow
- Oh, I forgot about brands :D The anti-casting speed one is useful, so also need to be quick to use somewhere on the action bar, or u can quickly brand someone who is about to die with the Brand of the Damned, i kinda forget about it and just spam Stakes instead, haha. Then there's the anti-invis brand too
- And meanwhile, u need to ofc be spamming Stakes, because u can often use it on targets that have a normal amount of HP, so it needs to be somewhere accessible like one of basic skills
- I had propably forgotten about something
- Ah yeah, I forgot about the basic slash from the talent tree that is used every 6s, it also needs to be in the hotkey area of ur main spammable skills xd

Well, it's nice to use and remember all of it, but if u have a healer behind u, because if u don't, u often jump in but can only click a few things before u die XD So it's like a DPS machine, but pretty squishy despite having all of these unusual stuff, sometimes it clicks that u can use it in a cool combo manner, and outlast the opponent but sometimes ur HP dissapears very fast

Btw. relogging on a class that has like half of the action bars empty feels so weird after it, like it's relaxing to play in comparison haha

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EDIT: I forgot to mention, Black Knight feels less taxing because u're tankier so u have more time to think about what to use and if u didnt forget about anything xd

EDIT 2: tl;dr I think the only obvious change he needs, is that Fiery Judgement and Torchlight could be merged into a single spell with a lower cooldown, they're very similar to each other; and Dusk Blade could be just a talent for Dawn Blade, giving it 25% healing.

As a result, it would be both a slight buff to Dawn Blade and the survability of the spec and also reduce the amount of bloat by two skills.

Inb4 don't change anything because it's a secret class for the high IQ people, and not for simpletons

A lot of people who only played Longsword for thousands of hours, since playtests and on every class come to Discord rn asking why they can't hit a riposte, and telling they might quit Dark and Darker

Its very sad to see