Dark Knight

Dark Knights are warriors who train without rest to perfect their sword work. They put their high Strength and Agility into single-target and area attacks such as Twisting Slash, Death Stab and Rageful Blow. They are one of the original classes and need no level to create.

The community wiki calls it the most popular class. Naturally high HP, strong weapons and the best armour make the Dark Knight a natural main attacker in a party, and it can also hunt alone. Its skills use less mana than other classes' skills, so Energy matters less for it.

See Classes Overview for the level of each class change. A new Dark Knight starts with these values:

With stat specialization, Strength adds attack power and Agility adds defence, each up to 45% at 2001–3000 points (see Character Stats).

The official class page lists these skills:

Skills are later improved through the Master Skill Tree and the Skill Enhance Tree.

The Season 15 Part 2-2 update gave the Dark Knight two ways to play:

• Fury Knight: the lasting Sword's Fury buff (Strength 1060) widens the reach of attack skills and the area of Blow skills. Sword Blow (Strength 1090) is a water-type Blow that hits a wide area.
• Belief Knight: Firm Belief (Energy 1040) needs a shield and turns the knight into a Belief Knight with better defence from stats and higher Base DEF. Strong Blessing (Energy 1052) then takes part of party members' HP and damage onto the knight and raises their attack.

The same update added Mastery shields for the Dark Knight. Each reduces the damage the knight takes for allies by its defence × 0.1:

Matching Belief armour sets, from Bloodangel Knight (level 400) to Silver Heart Knight, came with it; see Mastery Items.

In Season 18 Part 2-2 the Dark Knight got the Combat Power (%) attribute. It grows with Strength and with item options, raises attack and skill power in proportion and only applies to attack skills. Weapons that carry it for the Dark Knight are one-handed swords: socket weapons, Mastery weapons and Archangel's Absolute and Blessed Archangel's Absolute weapons. The update also set the AG cost of Blow skills to 3.

The community wiki lists Dark Knight armour sets from Leather, Bronze, Scale, Brass and Plate up to Dragon Knight, Titan, Brave, Storm Wing and the Bloodangel, Darkangel, Holyangel and Awakening Knight sets. Its wings named there are Wing of Satan, Wing of Dragon, Wings of Storm and Wings of Flame God; see Wings and Weapons & Armor.