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Actions

PvE actions

Action Acquired Quest requirement Level Type MP Casting Recast Range
Radius
Description
Hard Slash.png  Hard Slash Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 1 Weaponskill Instant 2.5s Range icon.png 3y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Delivers an attack with a potency of 170.
Syphon Strike.png  Syphon Strike Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 2 Weaponskill Instant 2.5s Range icon.png 3y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Delivers an attack with a potency of 120.
Combo Action: Hard Slash
Combo Potency: 260
Combo Bonus: Restores MP
Unleash.png  Unleash Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 6 Spell Instant 2.5s Range icon.png 0y
Point Blank Circle around the user 5y
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 120 to all nearby enemies.
Grit.png  Grit Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 10 Ability Instant 2s Range icon.png 0y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Significantly increases enmity generation. Effect ends upon reuse.
Release Grit.png  Release Grit Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 10 Ability Instant 1s Range icon.png 0y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Cancels the effect of Grit.
Unmend.png  Unmend Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 15 Spell Instant 2.5s Range icon.png 20y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 150.
Additional Effect: Increased enmity
Additional Effect: Reduces the recast time of Plunge by 5 seconds
Souleater.png  Souleater Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 26 Weaponskill Instant 2.5s Range icon.png 3y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Delivers an attack with a potency of 120.
Combo Action: Syphon Strike
Combo Potency: 340
Combo Bonus: Restores own HP
Cure Potency: 300
Combo Bonus: Increases Blood Gauge by 20
Flood of Darkness.png  Flood of Darkness Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 1Quest: Ishgardian Justice 30 Ability 3,000 Instant 1s Range icon.png 10y
Line AoE from the user to the action target 10y
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 100 to all enemies in a straight line before you.
Additional Effect: Grants Darkside, increasing damage dealt by 10%
Duration: 30s
Extends Darkside duration by 30s to a maximum of 60s.
Shares a recast timer with Edge of Darkness.
Blood Weapon.png  Blood Weapon Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 1Quest: The Voice in the Abyss 35 Ability Instant 60s Range icon.png 0y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Grants 5 stacks of Blood Weapon, each stack increasing Blood Gauge by 10 and restoring MP upon landing weaponskills or spells.
Duration: 15s
Effect does not stack when hitting multiple targets with a single attack.
Shadow Wall.png  Shadow Wall Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 38 Ability Instant 120s Range icon.png 0y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Reduces damage taken by 30%.
Duration: 15s
Stalwart Soul.png  Stalwart Soul Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 40 Spell Instant 2.5s Range icon.png 0y
Point Blank Circle around the user 5y
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 100 to all nearby enemies.
Combo Action: Unleash
Combo Potency: 140
Combo Bonus: Restores MP
Combo Bonus: Increases Blood Gauge by 20
Edge of Darkness.png  Edge of Darkness Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 1Quest: Heroic Reprise 40 Ability 3,000 Instant 1s Range icon.png 3y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 300.
Additional Effect: Grants Darkside, increasing damage dealt by 10%
Duration: 30s
Extends Darkside duration by 30s to a maximum of 60s.
Shares a recast timer with Flood of Darkness.
Dark Mind.png  Dark Mind Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 45 Ability Instant 60s Range icon.png 0y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Reduces magic vulnerability by 20%.
Duration: 10s
Living Dead.png  Living Dead Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 1Quest: Our Answer 50 Ability Instant 300s Range icon.png 0y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Grants the effect of Living Dead. When HP is reduced to 0 while under the effect of Living Dead, instead of becoming KO'd, your status will change to Walking Dead.
Living Dead Duration: 10s
Additional Effect: Restores HP with each weaponskill successfully delivered or spell cast
Cure Potency: 1,500
While under the effect of Walking Dead, most attacks will not lower your HP below 1. If, before the Walking Dead timer runs out, an amount of HP totaling your maximum HP is restored, the effect will change to Undead Rebirth. If this amount is not restored, you will be KO'd.
Walking Dead Duration: 10s
While under the effect of Undead Rebirth, most attacks will not lower your HP below 1.
Undead Rebirth Duration: Time remaining on Walking Dead
Salted Earth.png  Salted Earth Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 1Quest: The Knight and the Maiden Fair 52 Ability Instant 90s Range icon.png 0y
Point Blank Circle around the user 5y
Creates a patch of salted earth at your feet, dealing unaspected damage with a potency of 50 to any enemies who enter.
Duration: 15s
※Action changes to Salt and Darkness upon execution.
Plunge.png  Plunge Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 1Quest: Kindred Spirits 54 Ability Instant 30s Range icon.png 20y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Delivers a jumping attack with a potency of 150.
Maximum Charges: 2
Cannot be executed while bound.
Abyssal Drain.png  Abyssal Drain Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 1Quest: Original Sins 56 Ability Instant 60s Range icon.png 20y
Circle AoE around the action target 5y
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 240 to target and all enemies nearby it.
Additional Effect: Restores own HP
Cure Potency: 200
Additional Effect: Restores MP
Shares a recast timer with Carve and Spit.
Carve and Spit.png  Carve and Spit Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 1Quest: Absolution 60 Ability Instant 60s Range icon.png 3y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Delivers a threefold attack with a potency of 510.
Additional Effect: Restores MP
Shares a recast timer with Abyssal Drain.
Bloodspiller.png  Bloodspiller Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 62 Weaponskill Instant 2.5s Range icon.png 3y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Delivers an attack with a potency of 500.
Blood Gauge Cost: 50
Quietus.png  Quietus Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 64 Weaponskill Instant 2.5s Range icon.png 0y
Point Blank Circle around the user 5y
Delivers an attack with a potency of 200 to all nearby enemies.
Blood Gauge Cost: 50
Delirium.png  Delirium Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 68 Ability Instant 60s Range icon.png 0y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Grants 3 stacks of Delirium, each stack allowing the execution of Quietus or Bloodspiller without Blackblood cost, restoring MP when landing either weaponskill.
Duration: 15s
The Blackest Night.png  The Blackest Night Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 1Quest: Our Compromise 70 Ability 3,000 Instant 15s Range icon.png 30y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Creates a barrier around target that absorbs damage totaling 25% of target's maximum HP.
Duration: 7s
Grants Dark Arts when barrier is completely absorbed.
Dark Arts Effect: Consume Dark Arts instead of MP to execute Edge of Shadow or Flood of Shadow
Flood of Shadow.png  Flood of Shadow Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 74 Ability 3,000 Instant 1s Range icon.png 10y
Line AoE from the user to the action target 10y
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 160 to all enemies in a straight line before you.
Additional Effect: Grants Darkside, increasing damage dealt by 10%
Duration: 30s
Extends Darkside duration by 30s to a maximum of 60s.
Shares a recast timer with Edge of Shadow.
Edge of Shadow.png  Edge of Shadow Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 74 Ability 3,000 Instant 1s Range icon.png 3y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 460.
Additional Effect: Grants Darkside, increasing damage dealt by 10%
Duration: 30s
Extends Darkside duration by 30s to a maximum of 60s. Shares a recast timer with Flood of Shadow.
Dark Missionary.png  Dark Missionary Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 76 Ability Instant 90s Range icon.png 0y
Point Blank Circle around the user 30y
Reduces magic damage taken by self and nearby party members by 10%.
Duration: 15s
Living Shadow.png  Living Shadow Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 80 Ability Instant 120s Range icon.png 0y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Conjure a simulacrum of your darkside to fight alongside you.
Simulacrum Attack Potency: 350
Duration: 20s
Blood Gauge Cost: 50
Additional Effect: Simulacrum is able to execute Shadowbringer, delivering an attack to all enemies in a straight line before it with a potency of 500 for the first enemy, and 25% less for all remaining enemies.
Oblation.png  Oblation Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 82 Ability Instant 60s Range icon.png 30y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Reduces damage taken by a party member or self by 10%.
Duration: 10s
Maximum Charges: 2
Salt and Darkness.png  Salt and Darkness Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 86 Ability Instant 20s Range icon.png 0y
Point Blank Circle around the user 0y
All enemies standing in the corrupted patch of Salted Earth take additional unaspected damage with a potency of 500 for the first enemy, and 50% less for all remaining enemies.
※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
Shadowbringer (ability).png  Shadowbringer Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 90 Ability Instant 60s Range icon.png 10y
Line AoE from the user to the action target 10y
Deals unaspected damage to all enemies in a straight line before you with a potency of 600 for the first enemy, and 50% less for all remaining enemies.
Maximum Charges: 2
Can only be executed while under the effect of Darkside.

Limit Breaks (PvE)

See also: Limit Break
Action Acquired Level Type MP Casting Recast Range
Radius
Description
Limit break icon1.png  Shield Wall Tank role.png Tank 1 Limit Break Level 1 Instant Instant Range icon.png 0y
Point Blank Circle around the user 50y
Reduces damage taken by all party members by 20%.
Limit break icon1.png  Stronghold Tank role.png Tank 1 Limit Break Level 2 Instant Instant Range icon.png 0y
Point Blank Circle around the user 50y
Reduces damage taken by all party members by 40%.
Limit break icon1.png  Dark Force Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 1 Limit Break Level 3 Instant Instant Range icon.png 0y
Point Blank Circle around the user 50y
Reduces damage taken by all party members by 80%.

Tank role actions (PvE)

See also: Role actions
Action Acquired Level Type MP Casting Recast Range
Radius
Description
Rampart.png  Rampart Tank role.png Tank 8 Ability Instant 90s Range icon.png 0y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Reduces damage taken by 20%.
Duration: 20s
Low Blow.png  Low Blow Tank role.png Tank 12 Ability Instant 25s Range icon.png 3y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Stuns target.
Duration: 5s
Provoke.png  Provoke Tank role.png Tank 15 Ability Instant 30s Range icon.png 25y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Gesture threateningly, placing yourself at the top of a target's enmity list while gaining additional enmity.
Interject.png  Interject Tank role.png Tank 18 Ability Instant 30s Range icon.png 3y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Interrupts the use of a target's action.
Reprisal.png  Reprisal Tank role.png Tank 22 Ability Instant 60s Range icon.png 0y
Point Blank Circle around the user 5y
Reduces damage dealt by nearby enemies by 10%.
Duration: 10s
Arm's Length.png  Arm's Length Melee DPS role.png Melee DPS
Physical Ranged DPS role.png Physical Ranged DPS
Tank role.png Tank
32 Ability Instant 120s Range icon.png 0y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Creates a barrier nullifying most knockback and draw-in effects.
Duration: 6s
Additional Effect: Slow +20% when barrier is struck
Duration: 15s
Shirk.png  Shirk Tank role.png Tank 48 Ability Instant 120s Range icon.png 25y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Diverts 25% of enmity to target party member.

PvP actions

Action Acquired Quest requirement Level Type MP Casting Recast Range
Radius
Description
Hard Slash (PvP).png  Hard Slash (PvP) Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 30 Weaponskill Instant 2.4s Range icon.png 5y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Delivers an attack with a potency of 3,000.
※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
Syphon Strike (PvP).png  Syphon Strike (PvP) Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 30 Weaponskill Instant 2.4s Range icon.png 5y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Delivers an attack with a potency of 4,000.
Combo action: Hard Slash
※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
Souleater (PvP).png  Souleater (PvP) Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 30 Weaponskill Instant 2.4s Range icon.png 0y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 5y
Delivers an attack with a potency of 5,000.
Combo Action: Syphon Strike
Combo bonus: Absorbs 100% of damage dealt as HP
※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
Quietus pvp.png  Quietus (PvP) Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 30 Weaponskill Instant 2.4s Range icon.png 0y
Point Blank Circle around the user 5y
Delivers an attack with a potency of 8,000 to all nearby enemies.
Additional Effect: Absorbs 100% of damage dealt as HP
This weaponskill does not share a recast timer with any other actions.
Shadowbringer (PvP).png  Shadowbringer (PvP) Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 30 Instant Instant 1s Range icon.png 10y
Line AoE from the user to the action target 10y
Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 6,000 to all enemies in a straight line before you.
Consumes 20% of your maximum HP when executed.
Additional Effect: Grants Blackblood.
Duration: 10s
Cannot be executed when current HP is lower than 20%
※Souleater Combo changes to Bloodspiller while under the effect of Blackblood.
Plunge (PvP).png  Plunge (PvP) Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 30 Ability Instant 15s Range icon.png 20y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Rushes target and delivers an attack with a potency of 2,000.
Additional Effect: Afflicts target with Sole Survivor
Soul Survivor Effect: Reduces target's HP recovered by healing actions by 20%
Duration: 15s
If that target should be KO'd in battle before Sole Survivor expires, 20% of your maximum HP will be restored, and the recast time of Plunge will be reset.
Cannot be executed while bound.
The Blackest Night (PvP).png  The Blackest Night (PvP) Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 30 Ability Instant 15s Range icon.png 30y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Creates a barrier around self or target party member that absorbs equivalent to a heal of 8,000 potency.
Duration: 10s
Grants Dark Arts when barrier is completely absorbed.
Dark Arts Effect: Consume Dark Arts instead of HP to execute Shadowbringer
Salted Earth (PvP).png  Salted Earth (PvP) Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 30 Ability Instant 30s Range icon.png 0y
Point Blank Circle around the user 10y
Instantly draws nearby enemies to your side, and creates a patch of salted earth at your feet, dealing unaspected damage over time to any enemies inside.
Potency: 2,000
Duration: 10s
Additional Effect: Gradually restores your HP and reduces damage taken by 20% while standing in the patch of salted earth.
Cure Potency: 2,000
Additional Effect: Increases damage taken by enemies standing in the patch of salted earth by 10%.
※Action changes to Salt and Darkness while Salted Earth is active.
Bloodspiller (PvP).png  Bloodspiller (PvP) Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 30 Weaponskill Instant 2.4s Range icon.png 5y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Delivers an attack with a potency of 6,000.
Potency increases up to 12,000 as HP decreases, reaching its maximum value when HP falls below 25%
Can only be executed while under the effect of Blackblood.
※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
Salt and Darkness (PvP).png  Salt and Darkness (PvP) Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 30 Ability Instant 10s Range icon.png 0y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
All enemies standing in the corrupted patch of Salted Earth take additional unaspected damage with a potency of 4,000.
Additional Effect: Bind
Duration: 2s
※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.

Limit Break (PvP)

Action Acquired Level Type MP Casting Recast Range
Radius
Description
Eventide (PvP).png  Eventide (PvP) Dark Knight frame icon.png DRK 30 Limit Break Instant 10s Range icon.png 0y
Line AoE from the user to the action target 30y
Delivers an attack with a potency of 6,000 to all enemies in a straight line before and behind you.
Potency increases up to 24,000 as HP nears maximum.
HP is reduced to 1 upon execution.
Additional Effect: Grants Undead Redemption
Undead Redemption Effect: Attacks cannot reduce your HP to less than 1, and you absorb 100% of weaponskill damage dealt as HP
Duration: 10s
Additional Effect: Grants Blackblood
10
Can only be executed when the limit gauge is full.
※Souleater Combo changes to Bloodspiller while under the effect of Blackblood.

Common actions (PvP)

Action Acquired Level Type MP Casting Recast Range
Radius
Description
Standard-issue Elixir (PvP).png  Standard-issue Elixir (PvP) Any class frame icon.png ANY 30 Ability 4.5s 5s Range icon.png 0y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Restores your HP and MP to maximum. Casting will be interrupted when damage is taken.
Recuperate (PvP).png  Recuperate (PvP) Any class frame icon.png ANY 30 Ability 2,500 Instant 1s Range icon.png 0y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Restores own HP.
Cure Potency: 15,000
Purify (PvP).png  Purify Any class frame icon.png ANY 30 Ability Instant 30s Range icon.png 0y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Removes Stun, Heavy, Bind, Silence, Half-asleep, Sleep, and Deep Freeze.
Additional Effect: Grants Resilience
Resilience Effect: Nullifies status afflictions that can be removed by Purify
Duration: 5s
Can be used even when under the effect of certain status afflictions.
Guard (PvP).png  Guard (PvP) Any class frame icon.png ANY 30 Ability Instant 30s Range icon.png 0y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Reduces damage taken by 90% and grants immunity to Stun, Heavy, Bind, Silence, Half-asleep, Sleep, Deep Freeze, and knockback and draw-in effects.
Duration: 5s
Movement speed is reduced by 50% for the duration of this effect.
Effect ends upon reuse, using another action, or when the effect duration expires.
Sprint (PvP).png  Sprint (PvP) Any class frame icon.png ANY 30 Ability Instant 1.5s Range icon.png 0y
Single Target or AoE not yet specified 0y
Increases movement speed. Effect ends upon reuse or execution of another action.