Dark Knight

Dark Knight
A Slayer who released the Demon from his Arm.
Role
Specialized Weapon	Short Sword, Katana, Bludgeon, Zanbato, Lightsabre
Specialized Armor	Cloth, Light Armor, Heavy Armor, Plate Armor
Class Information	Skill Type: Magical/Physical Damage Type: Percent Class Difficulty:
Inflict Element?	Shadow Element
Inflict Status Effect?	None
Alternate Names	Dark Knight Korean: 다크나이트 Chinese: 黑暗武士 (lit. Dark Warrior) Japanese: ダークナイト
Neo: Awakening Neo: Dark Knight
Alternate Names	Neo: Dark Knight Korean: 진(眞) 다크나이트

“

All my limits have disappeared after I was released from Kazan… My power knows no end.

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The boy was infected by Kazan's syndrome and banished from his town after being disowned by his parents. He wanders around and is captured by the Imperial Guards.

The princess stimulates the boy’s mind and accelerates the infection driving the boy into insanity.

The boy is selected as a test subject for the Transfer Test and is sent to Vilmark. Other test subjects, the guards, and even Iris fears the repulsive boy in the final stages of his infection.

The Transfer Test fails and the boy accidentally slips into the Time Gate and goes through many trials. He is freed from the Kazan infection.

The boy wanders around the Time Gate and meets an adventurer in a similar situation as him.

The boy, now a Dark Knight, sees the end of time. He sacrifices most of the power he has gained in the Time Gate to return to Arad in an attempt to prevent the horrible future he witnessed.

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The Dark Knight is an unique variant of the Male Slayer in that it utilizes the attacks of the original 4 subclasses in one single moveset. He has access to many of the Slayer's most powerful skills and is able to freely chain them together with his Time Break ability, which not only links corresponding skills but dramatically increases its' damage when chained together. Dark Knight plays a much more offensive role compared to other Slayers, whereas other Slayers possess more defensive tools such as  Guard,  Flip Side Counter,  Afterimage of Keiga,  Diehard, or  Mind's Eye.

Further along the game, the Dark Knight can awaken after completing certain Piece of Time quests. After obtaining 9th Piece of Time, the Dark Knight is able to obtain their first awakening. After obtaining the 13th Piece of Time, he is able to obtain his second awakening.

• Dark Knight does not have a unique subclass cosmetic effect or a 1st Awakening cosmetic effect.

• His 2nd Awakening cosmetic is a glowing purple aura fuming off his shoulders.

Achieving Second Awakening

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The Dark Knight must first reach level 75.

1. Talk to Siran in the City of Shonan.
2. Collect 5  Seal of Empress Skardi.
3. Clear EX: Gold Dragon Tournament.
4. Collect 5  Seal of Emperor Helm.
5. Clear EX: Silver Dragon Tournament.
6. Clear Tainted Time Gate.

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Awakening as a Neo: Dark Knight

I moved my feet to take a step.
In that instant, the time stopped and someone spoke.

“No.”

When I turned, someone else spoke.

“Not there either.”

Unable to take any step, I asked in the air out of frustration.
But no answers to be heard.
The endless repetition of questions and answers in countless moments.
At the end of it an answer finally came.

“That’s it. That’s the way.”

Finally I could take a step, and time flowed again.
But when I tried to take the next step, time froze again, and someone spoke.

“No.”

When I asked who they were, someone answered.

“I am you of all moments in time.”

And the ‘me’ continued to answer me.

“This path is the last time that ‘I’ will take, the one true path. So this path must contain all the times.”

The end of a long journey, filled with questions for the answer.
Having heard the answer from ‘me’, ‘I’ turned around.
There I saw the hesitating me of just a moment ago.
And that moment, the realization of countless ‘me’ myriads of time flowed into me.

And…
‘I’ told ‘me’.

“No.”

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The Dark Knight must first reach level 100.

• Complete the True Awakening 1 Quest line and obtain Ability Intensification.

Obtaining Ability Intensification

Upon completing Scroll of Enlightenment the following skills have decreased SP cost:

•  Time Stop: reduced to 30SP
•  Space-time Union: reduced to 45SP
•  Time Break (Dark Knight): SP reduced to 0 and auto learned.

With  Scroll of Enlightenment learns the skill  Clues to Awakening and can reinforce  Time Break (Dark Knight).

Learns new skills:

•  Subitism
•  One Step Closer

• Complete the True Awakening 2 Quest line.

Warning

Since "Season 2 - Act.01 - Reborn" patch, you can only create and play with this character if you already have any other character (excluding Creator) on level 70 or above, since the game categorizes it as a "Supplementary Story Character" that doesn't fit in the main story, instead it tells you the story from another point of view behind the episodes on the Time Gate area.

Combo System

The Dark Knight has a unique combo system called Time Break. This is a system unique only to the Dark Knight, allowing him to create a skill combo and increase the damage for each skill chained together. It is important for the player to understand DK's combo system to fully bring out his potential; not only in damage, but also in utility. The following may look and sound daunting, but when actually played, it is all quite simple.

The first row of hotkeys can have up to 6 skills lined up for each key. From top to bottom, they are referred to as Phase 1 to Phase 6 skills. These lined up skills makes up a “combo” chain. When you use one skill after the other from the same combo key the next skill is stronger. Skills in combo hotkeys are given cancels and can be cancelled out of. Expanded hotkeys (the top row) are normal hotkeys unaffected by combo system or time break cancelling.

Using the auto setting function will default all combos to the recommended combo for each hotkey. This is not recommended due how unreliable some combos become. It is ideal to make a combo that suits your play style.

Details

• The damage amplification values from 1st to 6th Phases are: 100% → 130% → 150% → 180% → 200%.

• All skills in the same combo share a single cooldown (CD). Combo CDs are averaged from the skills that make up the combo. It is a common strategy to have 1 strong skill with 4-5 other low CD skills to compress the overall CD of a combo to spam one powerful move.

• When you use a combo skill, the next Phase skill of the chain is available for use almost immediately, bar some skills. You have until 2 seconds after the previous skill ends to use the next skill. If not used in that time frame, the whole combo will go into CD. When you are flinched/KD during a combo in any way, the combo will enter CD. If you use any skill that is not a part of the combo whether it is a Phase 1 combo starter, expanded hotkey skill, or even Evade/Ancient Memory, the combo will enter CD. When you burn through all the skills in a combo, it will enter CD.
  • It is possible to refresh the combo timer (but only to 1 second rather than 2 seconds) with the following actions:
    • Stopping your dash (Stopping and restarting your dash is the most convenient and reliable method)
    • When the first basic X attack is completed
    • Picking up items

• All Phase 2 and higher skills get a brief period of  Super Armor (Status) (SA) when they are used. With enough speed, skills can be used so fast in succession that this brief period can equate to full SA on skills. Stage 1 skills will not have SA unless the skill itself has SA.

• When cancelling, you can change the direction you are facing by holding your movement key in the opposite direction. This allows for some unique movements that no other class can mimic.

• DK does have its own variant of Slayer's  Upward Slash ( Uppercut), but it is not bound to the default Z key due to combo system. Z is a blank key on DK.

• DK cannot use command inputs for skills if they are bound to a combo, the following skills can be down with command inputs without any restrictions;  Backstep,  Quick Rebound,  Leap,  Ancient Memory, and  Indomitable Spirit.

Skills

Dark Knight Skills

Active Skills  Brief Cut  Bounce Blow  Uppercut  Dark Slash  Spin Attack  Dark Cross  Wave  Vein Slash  Grand Wave  Hop Smash  Fierce Strike  Triple Stabs  Dark Explosion  Whip Attack  Dark Wave  Dark Rave  Rapid Move  Dark Crasher  Overflow  Dark Ball  Dark Lust  Dark Fall  Shock Wave  Dark Sword  Dark Flame Sword (Dark Knight)  Momentary Slash  Draw Sword (Dark Knight)  Illusion Slash  Wave Spin  Dark Break	Passive Skills  Shadowy Bludgeon Mastery  Shadowy Katana Mastery  Shadowy Zanbato Mastery  Shadowy Short Sword Mastery  Shadowy Lightsabre Mastery	Dark Knight TP Skills  Uppercut Upgrade  Spin Attack Upgrade  Dark Slash Upgrade  Hop Smash Upgrade  Vein Slash Upgrade  Dark Cross Upgrade  Fierce Strike Upgrade  Grand Wave Upgrade  Dark Ball Upgrade  Dark Lust Upgrade  Wave Upgrade  Whip Attack Upgrade  Dark Wave Fall Upgrade  Illusion Slash Upgrade  Dark Explosion Upgrade  Dark Break Upgrade  Wave Spin Upgrade  Momentary Slash Upgrade  Draw Sword Upgrade (Dark Knight)  Dark Rave Upgrade  Shock Wave Upgrade  Dark Fall Upgrade  Rapid Move Upgrade  Dark Sword Upgrade  Charge Explosion Upgrade
Dark Knight Awakening Skills  Time Stop  Phantom Sword  Dark Wave Fall  Charge Explosion	Dark Knight 2nd Awakening Skills  Space-time Union  Dark Burst  Time Break (Dark Knight)	Dark Knight Neo: Awakening Skills  Time Lord  Diabolic Slash  The End of Time

General Skills

Active Skills  Backstep  Quick Rebound  Leap  Indomitable Spirit  Ancient Memory	Passive Skills  Latent Power  Armor Mastery  Basic Training  Backstep Upgrade  Conversion  Focus: Critical  Rear Attack	General TP Skills  Basic Training Upgrade
General Neo: Awakening Skills  Subitism  One Step Closer  Clues to Awakening	General Togglable Skills  Conversion

Trivia

Subclass Inspiration

• The Dark Knight's theme is based around Darkness and Destruction as a polar opposite to Creator's Light/Creation, later expanding into Time Manipulation for his Awakenings.
• He may bear a slight resemblance to Ghirahim, one of two main antagonists featured in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.
• The Dark Knight is one of few classes who can take on either a Physical or Magical role.

Titles

• Prior to being released, it's implied that his Global title was going to be called Destroyer, only for the Male Launcher's Second Awakening to receive it instead.
• In European Folklore, Black Knights are usually stock characters that often portray villainous roles who refuse to serve lords, kings, and sometimes associate themselves with death or darkness, which befits him since he is a Kazan-less Male Slayer.
  • Oddly, the Asura once had this as his former Awakening in the Nexon-DFO localization to avoid using deity-related names.

Skills

• The Dark Knight's skills prior to his awakening are of the first four Slayer subclasses, redesigned with a dark theme.
  • Because the class was created much later after the Dark Knight's release, no skills for the Ghostblade were redesigned for the Dark Knight.
•  Time Break (Dark Knight) - Vergil's Judgment Cut End. (Devil May Cry 4 ~ 5)

Gallery

Artwork

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  Dark Knight Skill Cut-In

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  Dark Knight

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  Dark Knight Alt.

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  Young Dark Knight

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  Dark Knight Awakening

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  Dark Knight Awakening Wallpaper

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  Petite Dark Knight Portrait

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  Dark Knight Phone Wallpaper

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  Neo: Dark Knight

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  Neo: Dark Knight Artwork Transparent

Animations

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  Dark Knight Motion Aura

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  Dark Knight Awakening Skill Cut-In

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  Neo: Dark Knight Sprite

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  Neo: Dark Knight Buff Animation

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  Dark Knight Neo Awakening Cut In