Dark Knight19 skills

The greatsword and a cursed armor: hurls it far and reaches it in a shadow, fights to a rhythm of skills and hits, and finishes with the Condemned's Dance.

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Damned Armor Hungry Runes Hurled Greatsword Condemned's Dance Vesper Blade Shadow Sidestep Helm Cry Last Vigil Sated Runes Sidestep Echo Debt Duel Heavy Iron Split Ground Headsman's Rhythm Faithful Shadow Rune Hunger Refusal of Death Face of the Condemned

Where there are two numbers, the first is at level 1 and the second at max level.

Damned Armor

Dark Knight

Class: Dark Knight
Type: Passive
Max level: 5

Effect

Reduces the damage you take, and more when your HP is low.
Damage taken: -3% per level.
Under a third of HP: another -15%.

Requires

Black Husklv. 1

Needed for

Debtlv. 5
Refusal of Deathlv. 5

Hungry Runes

Dark Knight

Class: Dark Knight
Type: Passive
Max level: 5

Effect

Lights a rune on the blade with every skill you use: the next basic attack uses a rune and deals more damage.
Bonus: +26% to the basic attack, +8% per level.
At most 3 runes. Every press counts, including every move of the Condemned's Dance.

Requires

Condemned's Dancelv. 1

Needed for

Sated Runeslv. 3
Rune Hungerlv. 3

Hurled Greatsword

Dark Knight

Class: Dark Knight
Type: Active
Kind: Powerful
Max level: 10
SP: 20 → 38
Cooldown: 8 s

Effect

Hurls the greatsword, which hurts enemies in its path and stays planted in the ground. Press it again: you vanish into a shadow, reappear at the greatsword and slam it into the ground.
Damage: 112% of attack, +12% per level. Weapon element.
Slam: 155% of attack, +15% per level. Weapon element.
Effect: Airborne for 0.6 s, for enemies hit by the slam. Does not work on bosses.
Duration: 6 s planted in the ground.
The second press costs no SP. While the greatsword is away, the basic attack is bare-handed.
If you don't take it back, it returns on its own and hurts again along the way, with the throw's damage; the cooldown is then 6 s.

Needed for

Heavy Ironlv. 3
Split Groundlv. 5

Condemned's Dance

Dark Knight

Class: Dark Knight
Type: Active
Kind: Powerful
Max level: 10
SP: 18 → 27
Cooldown: 6 s

Effect

Performs three moves in a row, one per press: a dash forward with a slash, a roll with a spinning cut, a leap that slams the greatsword and knocks into the air.
First hit: 98% of attack, +8% per level, to whoever is in the path of the dash (2.6 tiles). Weapon element.
Second hit: 87% of attack, +7% per level, to whoever is within 2 tiles. Weapon element.
Third hit: 142% of attack, +12% per level, to whoever is within 1.9 tiles. Weapon element.
Effect: Airborne for 0.9 s, on the third hit. Does not work on bosses.
You have 1.3 s to press again: if the time runs out, the cooldown is 5 s.
SP are paid only on the first move. During each move you take no damage for 0.25-0.4 s.

Requires

Gashlv. 3

Needed for

Vesper Blade

Dark Knight

Class: Dark Knight
Type: Active
Kind: Rot
Max level: 5
SP: 25 → 35
Cooldown: 25 s
Duration: 12 → 20 s

Effect

Increases the damage you deal and heals you for part of the damage dealt.
Bonus: +25% damage, +5% per level.
Healing: 6% of the damage dealt, +1% per level.
Duration: 12 s, +2 s per level.
Applies to the basic attack and to skills.

Requires

Contagionlv. 1

Needed for

Last Vigillv. 3

Shadow Sidestep

Dark Knight

Class: Dark Knight
Type: Active
Kind: Rot
Max level: 5
SP: 16
Cooldown: 7 s

Effect

Dashes a short way toward the chosen point and wraps you in a shield of shadow.
Shield: 10% of max HP, +2% per level.
Duration: 4 s.
During the dash you take no damage for 0.2 s. The new shield replaces the one you already have.

Requires

Yanklv. 1

Needed for

Sidestep Echolv. 5
Faithful Shadowlv. 3

Helm Cry

Dark Knight

Class: Dark Knight
Type: Active
Kind: Debuff
Max level: 5
SP: 20 → 28
Cooldown: 12 s

Effect

Hurts the monsters around you, stuns them and interrupts their casting.
Damage: 50% of attack. Weapon element.
Effect: Stunned for 1.2 s, +0.2 s per level.
Radius: 2.8 tiles, +0.2 per level.
No stun on bosses: only the damage and the interrupted cast.

Requires

Rotten Fistlv. 3

Needed for

Duellv. 3
Face of the Condemnedlv. 3

Last Vigil

Dark Knight

Class: Dark Knight
Type: Active
Kind: Powerful
Max level: 5
SP: 40 → 60
Cooldown: 60 s
Duration: 15 s

Effect

The cursed armor fuses with you: you grow bigger, wrapped in violet shadow, and fight harder. Press it again before it ends: the shadow goes out in a fan-shaped wave in front of you, 4.8 tiles long, and the transformation ends.
Bonus: +1.5 tiles of basic attack range, +35% to all damage, +20 attack speed, -15% damage taken.
Duration: 20 s.
Wave: 240% of attack, +40% per level, more the more the enemy is wounded, up to double. Weapon element.
The wave ends the effect. The second press costs no SP.
If you don't press it again, the cooldown is 50 s.

Requires

Condemned's Dancelv. 5
Vesper Bladelv. 3

Needed for

Duellv. 3

Sated Runes

Dark Knight

Class: Dark Knight
Type: Passive
Max level: 5
Class level: 51

Effect

Heals you every time your basic attack consumes a rune.
Healing: 1% of max HP per level, for every rune consumed.
With Debt, the healing pays off the debt first.

Requires

Hungry Runeslv. 3

Sidestep Echo

Dark Knight

Class: Dark Knight
Type: Passive
Max level: 5
Class level: 51

Effect

Leaves your shadow where Shadow Sidestep starts: if you use a damaging skill within 3 s, the shadow repeats it and hits again the enemies it struck.
Damage: 30% of the skill's, +10% per level.
The echo copies only the damage: no Stunned, Immobilized, pulls or knock-ups.
One echo for each Sidestep. It doesn't repeat Duel, Debt, Vesper Blade or Last Vigil, and it doesn't light runes.

Requires

Shadow Sidesteplv. 5

Debt

Dark Knight

Class: Dark Knight
Type: Active
Kind: Rot
Max level: 5
Class level: 51
SP: 25
Cooldown: 20 s

Effect

Puts off part of the damage you take: instead of landing at once, it arrives slowly over the next 4 s.
Damage put off: 40%, +5% per level.
Duration: 5 s, +0.5 s per level.
Healing you receive pays off the debt first, then HP.
The debt never exceeds half your max HP: beyond that, the damage lands at once.