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Black Knight Buff
Shut Up Edition

(I'm dumb, so I'm moving it here instead.)

Kept you waiting, huh?

I made a thread complaining about Black Knight's helplessness about Magic Gunners (and specially so the ice shell) a few months back or so, now. I've been familiarizing myself more with the class now the more I play it, and I've taken notice of a core flaw that is really, really troubling and very much worth mentioning.

Silence.

I'm aware that Dev mentioned he's planning to buff Black Knights soon-ish or so, and that's exactly why I'm posting this. Silence is a core aspect the class needs and desperately so. Destiny Soldier has no means to stop magic in the slightest. Soldier, Demon Hunter, Black Knight and Tactician have no way to stop a mage.

The closest you can come to stopping a mage is with Knockdown and trying to run off, but that's not exactly going to work out if you have no means to kite. Unless you've taken Cobra, you're absolutely doomed no matter what you try to do. If you Knockdown an invocating mage, you're left in their proximity to be nuked regardless. If you try to run, they can easily catch up to you by Blinking alone. There is nothing you can really do to take a ridiculous amount of damage whatsoever.

Not to mention, Evokers have the ability to inflict Knockdown on you if you're sitting nearby and they're casting an invocation. Meaning, there's really no way out. You don't have Kip Up to get out of there quick. You're doomed one way or another.

Black Knight is also a physical defense class, not a magic one. Unless you're willing to swap out your entire build for the simple goal of being able to resist magic, you're not going to go far when there's a mage in front of you. Magical damage is the go-to choice and with no way to resist it whatsoever, any class with good Magical damage (i.e. Kadouha from Monk), is going to absolutely demolish you no matter what you try to do.

Silence is a must. Without it, there's little chance for a Black Knight to stand a chance. My hope is that Dev adds it with the planned Black Knight buff. Without it, Black Knight will just be refrained to be a 'some bonus phys res and some utilities' class. At least with Silence, it can stand a chance.