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Skills
Slanted Balance
One of the best things about succession is a new skill called Slanted Balance, which has a ranged CC (Crowd Control). Therefore, you can approximately CC from a certain range and do the attack.
Air Strike
Another update is that you do not have to turn on your Air Strike. Air Strike is only bound when it is not a floating target and you can just Air Strike into the face and continue on with your combo.
Kamasylvian Slash (Kama Slash)
They also updated Kama Slash; now it can be held, turned around and constantly maintain your forward guard as well as iframe during and let go after the iframe to release in the back your target getting the CC
Obsidian Ashes
An additional update is that the Obsidian Ashes now restore its bound. This is a nice skill to use in a node war or an RBF when you are not seeing coming. However, if you are using and enemies are looking at you, you are going to be CC and they are going to kill you.
Pervasive Darkness
Pervasive has been changed removing his frontal guard, however adding a stiffen, it now does more damage and has been given a flow similar to enforcement termination. But the second hit does not float, it simply does decent damage.
Enforcement
Enforcement termination is technically the same, however, it got a large damage increase, Nonetheless, it is one of the best skills to use against evasion targets with its high accuracy modifier and also making useful in PvE.
Skill Cancellation
Every skill and succession can be canceled with an iframe at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of its animation. However, if you want the damage to go off or the CC to go off, you must cancel the animation at the end. Additionally, there are three that consists of the use of Nocturne,
You can hold your Kama Slash and tap right mouse bumper, come up behind the target, releasing your kama slash and getting that knocked out in the back. It should be noted that Kama Slash must be fully charged in order to be Nocturne canceled and still use the damage in the back.
You can cancel Twilight Dash in a similar way by tapping C and tapping the right mouse button at any point of the animation, whether it be at the beginning or at the end depending on how far you want to move from your target and how much damage you want to do to the target.
It is slightly more useful to cancel your Twilight Dash with Pervasive Darkness, Unveiled Dagger or Ultimate Enforcement as it does not lock you in place and it is a little bit faster.
The final cancel with Nocturne is the Lunacy cancel. You tap your Lunacy, tap the right mouse button to go to Nocturne and use S or W to either move behind the target or back up in a protected state. The second option can be useful if you just did damage to a large group and need to get out of it faster with a Forward Guard Protection and then dash away.
Ravage Rake
Ravage rake is incredibly useful and the fact that the Absolute Flow; Ravage takes on the damage of primed Ravaged Rake at level 3. It should also be noted that after the first strike, you are able to press S to flow into the Flow; Ravage Rake to do even more damage. This can be performed at the first, second or third strike.
Heal per Hit
The heal of 30 HP per good hit is very useful in PvE. Similarly, the heal on Lunacy of Vedir 50 HP per good hit is decent in PvE, however, the BSR having 12 hits and 50 HP on every hit is not bad to be used against two to three targets, as this will allow you to deal damage to the target as well as heal through some of the damage that they are given to you.
Dark Knight PvE Succession Combos
You can start with an Unveiled Dagger into a Spirit Legacy DP dining speed buff, then using Twilight Dash, cancel with Pervasive, going into Enforcement Termination, finishing with Wheel Lunacy of Vedir as well as Ravage Rake and Shadow Strike.
Another example of PvE is starting off with Block, tapping LMB to do Split Second, Wheel of Fortune, Spirit Legacy, Twilight Dash, cancel with Pervasive, Enforcement Termination, finishing with Lunacy of Vedir, Shadow Strike and Ravage Rake to finish the targets remaining.
When we lose Cluster of Despair from our pool in PvE, you must resort to Slanted Balance for our pool as well as Obsidian Ashes and Shadow Strike.
Dark Knight Succession PvP
Your main catches are going to be Slanted Balance, Wheel of Fortune, Kama Slash as well as Lunacy of Vedir. Lunacy of Vedir may be used less often as it is a great damage skill. After this, it is best to follow up with Unveiled Dagger and Pervasive Darkness to buff ourself as well as to debuff the target. Then you can follow up with a second CC of Enforcement Termination. If you are in a state where you want to stay protected, you will want to use Kama Slash and then use the Forward Guard. Afterward, you are going to use your big damaging skills such as Lunacy of Vedir and Spirit Legacy as well as Twilight Dash, but you would want to use Twilight Dash and then cancel it to remain in the target zone and do damage in the back.
An example of a combo getting your first CC speed buff of Unveiled Dagger and DP down with a Pervasive Darkness. During your second CC float, you are going to use Twilight Dash for the Air Attack modifier, staying in range using your Nocturne cancel and then hitting with your big damaging skills of Lunacy of Vedir and Spirit Legacy. Twilight Dash does massive damage, which is even increased with the Air Attack modifier and when you use the Nocturne cancel, you can stay in range for that big damage of Lunacy of Vedir and Spirit Legacy.
Another PvP combo for evasion heavy targets such as mystic striker ninjas and kunos and utilizes Ravage Rake. You get your initial CC, use Unveiled Dagger for speed buff, use the one tap for Pervasive Darkness, swap into Ravage Rake, cancel the Ravage Rake flow after the first one, getting your second CC with Enforcement Termination and then finishing off a Twilight Dash through the flow; Lunacy of Vedir or Spirit Legacy o finish off the target.
If you are looking for more combos, be sure to check out the dark knight discord channel