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Kazzy makes a good point, and the comparison to newly reworked verglas definitely seems on point. It's a class that's landed in a good spot after recent changes, largely due to the landscape of the game alongside it being a strong class. I'm still of the mind to dial it back slightly with small changes, the likes of an extra turn of cooldown on checkmate and a slight scaling nerf to crescent rook and bright bishop. Verglas saw similar small nerfs here and there after its rework.

I do agree with Kazzy that the problem is more other classes needing buffs/reworks than black knight needing nerfs though. I think a large part of black knight's popularity post GR2 is simply having solid ways to play into the hit/evade game with hit buffs, flatfoot and a situationally autohit basic attack in checkmate. Other classes, both base and promoted, are absolutely starved for this sort of thing now that it's so mandatory for everyone. I certainly think that martial artists at large have dropped out of favor, and I'd wager it's mostly due to them having nothing but a passive +10 hit between the base class and all of its promotions. I don't count boxer's scharfe simply because it requires you to already be hitting boxer skills to raise your schwarz sturm level, making it a useless pre GR2 relic when you actually need it.

PS I am also onboard for an arbalest rework. It's gotta be one of the least played classes for as long as I can remember. Such a cool concept. Such a terrible class.