Dark Knight Succession
PvE Combo Guide
Dark Knight Succession
Main PvE Combo
- F+Space
Unveiled Dagger
Pervasive Darkness+10 AP - W+F (Hold)
Air Strike
Flow: Vedir Strike - S+LMB
Slanted Balance - Hotbar
Spirit Legacy - RMB
Blooming Black Rose - S+RMB (Hold)
Enforcement
Flow: TerminationNever skip the Enforcement flow, it hits very hard - Shift+RMB
Lunacy of Vedir - Shift+F
Wheel of Fortune - C
Twilight Dash+10% Movement Speed - RMB during Dash
Kamasylvia Slash - LMB+RMB
Ravage Rake - Shift+Z
Unveiled Fate+10% Attack Speed
Fillers
- Shift+Q, Shift+X
Corrupt Ground
Wrath of VedirQuick heal in PvE; +10% Attack Speed - Dash or Hotbar, Shift+E
Phantasmal Snare
Obsidian AshesThe dash or hotkeyed Phantasmal Snare cancels the start of Obsidian Ash. One of your highest damage skills, so always fit it into the rotation
Movement
Class Mobility
Movement Between Packs
- Shift+W
Smoky Haze - Shift+A/D
Dusk - W+FAir Strike
- Hotbar
Balanced StrikeQuick slot - CTwilight Dash
Repositioning in Packs
- Shift+WASDSmoky Haze/Dusk
- C, RMBTwilight DashReverse direction toward the opposite edge of the pack
- W+F (Hold)Flow: Vedir StrikeOptional side or depth pass
Build Notes
Class Specifics
Skills to Lock
Sudden Attack
Hidden Strike
Darkness Burst
Spirit Satiation
Split Second
Evasion
Skill Enhancements
- Wrath of Vedir (Shadow Strike for ranged pull)
- Unveiled Fate
- Balanced Strike
Skill Add-ons
Class Addons
Air Strike I
Powerful upward slash then downward blow on ground to inflict heavy damage.
Skill Add-on Effect
- All DP -20 for 10 sec to target
- Back Attack damage +5% for 7 sec
Slanted Balance I
Part the earth with the Energy of All Creations, obliterating everything in sight.
Skill Add-on Effect
- All DP +20 for 10 sec
- Movement Speed +10% for 7 sec
Wheel of Fortune I
Draw from the energy of nature around to attack with a powerful blade strike.
Skill Add-on Effect
- Critical Hit Rate +30% for 12 sec
- Attack/Casting Speed +10% for 12 sec
Lunacy of Vedir
Harness the energy of nature into your kriegsmesser, then slam downwards to knock ...
Skill Add-on Effect
- Back Attack damage +5% for 7 sec
- Critical Hit Damage +5% for 7 sec
Blooming Black Rose
Prerequisite: Use the [Secret Book] Abyssal Legacy ([The Magnus] Abyssal Revelation quest...
Skill Add-on Effect
- Critical Hit Rate +30% for 12 sec
- Critical Hit Damage +5% for 7 sec
Prime: Spirit Legacy
Preceding Skill: [Succession: Wrath of Vedir] Inflict explosive damage to the enemy in front ...
Skill Add-on Effect
- Attack/Casting Speed +10% for 12 sec
- All DP -20 for 10 sec to target
Change Log
October 22, 2026
1 change
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PvP
PvP minimum damage when the target's defense exceeds your attack raised from 5% to 7%.All classes
October 8, 2026
2 changes
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All
Unified the level-based base stats (Max HP, HP Recovery, All AP, All Damage Reduction and All Evasion) for every class. Class-specific stat differences now come from a new passive skill learned automatically at Lv. 50, 55, 60, 65 and 70.All classes
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All
Added the common skill Godslayer: Force Palm (Lv. 60+). Its Secret Book is obtained at A Freesword's Hearth in Voidekaia after finishing the Inner Edania main quests.All classes
February 12, 2026
1 change
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All
Removed "Extra Damage to Guard Gauge" (including Extra Fixed Damage to Guard Gauge) from all skills.All classes
December 4, 2025
1 change
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All
Prime: Ravage Rake: Fixed it being usable while holding S, unlike Ravage Rake I to Absolute.
October 2, 2025
1 change
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All
Flow: Vedir Strike: Removed its cooldown (comboed from Air Strike).Both specs
August 28, 2025
1 change
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All
Prime: Slanted Balance: Fixed a skill issue.
August 21, 2025
3 changes
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All
Prime: Lunacy of Vedir: Fixed a skill issue.
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All
Imperious Command, 
Enforcement, 
Wheel of Fortune: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs -
All
Succession: Imperious Command: Corrected the skill description.
July 24, 2025
3 changes
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All
Combat system overhaul: Resistance and Ignore Resistance reworked, AP, DP reduction and Special Attack damage gaps between classes narrowed, and Special Attack damage effects of the same type no longer stack.All classes
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All
Infinite Mastery now grants Accuracy +18 and All Accuracy +18 per skill level.All classes
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All
Spirit Combustion: Critical Hit Damage +10% → All AP +15.Both specs
April 17, 2025
1 change
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All
Flow: Vedir Strike: Corrected the skill description.Both specs
February 13, 2025
2 changes
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All
Emergency Escape: Invincibility now also applies when you reappear; movement speed and Stamina recovery during the skill reduced; SPACE now jumps to higher terrain.All classes -
PvE
Combat Assistance can now only be used while total Family Level is 200 or lower; some skills deal less damage or lose effects when spammed during cooldown, while main PvE skills deal more damage.All classes
December 12, 2024
1 change
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All
General class improvements.All classes
November 14, 2024
1 change
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All
Class balance adjusted.All classes
October 17, 2024
1 change
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All
Class balance adjusted.All classes
August 29, 2024
1 change
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All
Black Spirit: Seed of Catastrophe: Skill behavior improved.Both specs
August 22, 2024
5 changes
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All
Prime: Pervasive Darkness: Skill behavior improved.
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All
Succession: Flow: Ravage Rake: Damage adjusted. -
PvP
Prime: Wheel of Fortune: Damage adjusted. -
PvP
Wrath of Vedir: Cooldown 30 → 10 sec.
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PvP
Unveiled Fate: Cooldown 18 → 10 sec.
August 1, 2024
1 change
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All
General class improvements.All classes
July 25, 2024
5 changes
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All
Nocturne, 
Absolute: Nocturne, 
Shadow Bullet, 
Cluster of Despair, 
Black Spirit: Spirit Hunt: Damage adjusted.Both specs -
All
Prime: Nocturne: Damage adjusted. -
All
Dusk: Skill behavior improved.Both specs
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All
Class balance adjusted.All classes
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All
General class improvements.All classes
July 18, 2024
2 changes
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All
Class balance adjusted.All classes
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All
Fixed a class issue.All classes
July 10, 2024
1 change
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All
Fixed a class issue.All classes
June 19, 2024
8 changes
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All
General class improvements.All classes
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All
Dark Shadow, 
Trap of Vedir, 
Shadow Strike, Wrath of Vedir: Skill behavior improved.Both specs -
All
Prime: Wheel of Fortune, Succession: Imperious Command, Imperious Command,
Hidden Strike, 
Ravage Rake, Enforcement, 
Unveiled Dagger, 
Ultimate: Stinger: Skill behavior improved. -
All
Flow: Termination,
Slanted Balance, 
Darkness Burst: Skill behavior improved. -
All
Kamasylvia Slash, Wheel of Fortune, Lunacy of Vedir, Succession: Imperious Command: Damage adjusted. -
PvP
Prime: Ravage Rake,
Prime: Enforcement, Prime: Lunacy of Vedir, Blooming Black Rose: Damage adjusted. -
All
Prime: Kamasylvia Slash: Fixed a skill issue.
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All
Spirit Blaze: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs
November 15, 2023
5 changes
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All
Prime: Pervasive Darkness,
Corrupt Ground, Prime: Lunacy of Vedir: Skill behavior improved. -
All
Prime: Kamasylvia Slash,
Flow: Ravage Rake: Fixed a skill issue. -
All
Prime: Ravage Rake: Corrected the skill description.
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PvP
Ravage Rake: Fixed a skill issue.
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PvP
Prime: Enforcement, Prime: Kamasylvia Slash, Prime: Lunacy of Vedir, Prime: Slanted Balance, Prime: Pervasive Darkness, Prime: Air Strike, Prime: Spirit Legacy: Damage adjusted.
September 20, 2023
1 change
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PvE
Fixed a class issue.All classes
September 13, 2023
1 change
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All
General class improvements.All classes
September 6, 2023
1 change
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All
General class improvements.All classes
August 16, 2023
2 changes
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All
Prime: Air Strike: Fixed a skill issue.
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PvE
Prime: Kamasylvia Slash: Corrected the skill description.
August 9, 2023
1 change
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All
General class improvements.All classes
July 19, 2023
1 change
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All
Fixed a class issue.All classes
July 5, 2023
5 changes
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All
Blooming Black Rose, Ravage Rake: Smoother combos and controls.
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All
Unveiled Dagger: Damage adjusted.
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PvP
Blooming Black Rose, Prime: Enforcement, Prime: Wheel of Fortune, Prime: Kamasylvia Slash, Prime: Lunacy of Vedir, Prime: Ravage Rake: Damage adjusted.
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All
General class improvements.All classes
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All
Class balance adjusted.All classes
April 6, 2023
2 changes
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PvE
General class improvements.All classes
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All
Dusk,
Chain: Dusk, Phantasmal Snare: Skill behavior improved.Both specs
December 21, 2022
1 change
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All
Prime: Twilight Dash: Fixed a skill issue.
December 14, 2022
2 changes
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All
Prime: Twilight Dash: Damage adjusted.
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PvP
Prime: Kamasylvia Slash: Damage adjusted.
November 23, 2022
1 change
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All
General class improvements.All classes
October 26, 2022
1 change
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All
Blooming Black Rose: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs
October 19, 2022
2 changes
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All
General class improvements.All classes
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All
Blooming Black Rose: Corrected the skill description.Both specs
October 12, 2022
3 changes
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All
General class improvements.
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All
Hidden Strike, Prime: Nocturne: Fixed a skill issue.
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All
Unveiled Fate: Corrected the skill description.
August 23, 2022
7 changes
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PvP
Prime: Kamasylvia Slash: Fixed a skill issue.
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PvE
Prime: Lunacy of Vedir: Skill behavior improved.
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All
Prime: Air Strike: Added Super Armor.
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All
Unveiled Dagger, Prime: Twilight Dash, Prime: Nocturne, Prime: Kamasylvia Slash: Skill behavior improved.
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All
Prime: Ravage Rake, Flow: Ravage Rake: Fixed a skill issue.
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All
Prime: Wheel of Fortune, Prime: Lunacy of Vedir: Smoother combos and controls.
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PvE
Prime: Obsidian Ashes: Added Super Armor.
June 22, 2022
1 change
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All
Succession: Phantasmal Snare: Skill behavior improved.
June 15, 2022
2 changes
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All
Obsidian Blaze, Unveiled Fate, Nocturne: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs -
All
Cluster of Despair: Corrected the skill description.Both specs
May 31, 2022
5 changes
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All
Prime: Lunacy of Vedir, Phantasmal Snare: Fixed a skill issue.
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All
Prime: Air Strike: Corrected the skill description.
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PvP
Prime: Wheel of Fortune: Skill behavior improved.
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All
Prime: Obsidian Ashes, Phantasmal Snare: Smoother combos and controls.
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All
Phantasmal Snare: Skill behavior improved.
April 6, 2022
1 change
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All
Cluster of Despair: Damage adjusted.Both specs
January 26, 2022
2 changes
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All
Fixed a class issue.Both specs
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All
Shadow Bullet: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs
January 19, 2022
2 changes
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PvP
Black Spirit: Lunacy of Vedir, 
Absolute: Lunacy of Vedir: PvP damage reduced.Both specs -
PvP
Black Spirit: Prime: Lunacy of Vedir, 
Black Spirit: Spirit Legacy: Damage adjusted.Both specs
January 12, 2022
2 changes
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PvE
Prime: Wheel of Fortune, Prime: Twilight Dash, Prime: Lunacy of Vedir: Skill behavior improved.
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All
Prime: Ravage Rake: Damage adjusted.
January 5, 2022
4 changes
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PvP
Black Spirit: Absolute: Obsidian Ashes: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs -
All
Black Spirit: Obsidian Ashes, Black Spirit: Absolute: Obsidian Ashes: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs -
All
Black Spirit: Absolute: Obsidian Ashes,
Black Spirit: Prime: Obsidian Ashes: Damage adjusted.Both specs -
PvP
Black Spirit: Seed of Catastrophe: Corrected the skill description.Both specs
August 11, 2021
3 changes
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All
Nocturne, Absolute: Nocturne, Prime: Nocturne, Dusk, Chain: Dusk: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs
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All
Prime: Enforcement: Corrected the skill description.
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All
Core: Seed of Catastrophe, 
Seed of Catastrophe: Corrected the skill description.Both specs
June 29, 2021
1 change
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PvP
Soul Snatch: Corrected the skill description.Both specs
May 26, 2021
8 changes
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All
Nocturne, Absolute: Nocturne: Smoother combos and controls.Both specs
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All
Prime: Nocturne: Smoother combos and controls.
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All
Prime: Twilight Dash: Added Super Armor.
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PvP
Prime: Slanted Balance, Prime: Spirit Legacy: Damage adjusted.
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All
Prime: Air Strike: Skill behavior improved.
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All
Prime: Kamasylvia Slash: Fixed a skill issue.
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PvE
Prime: Kamasylvia Slash: Damage adjusted.
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PvE
Prime: Kamasylvia Slash, Prime: Wheel of Fortune: Skill behavior improved.
April 28, 2021
1 change
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All
Core: Spirit Hunt: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs
April 21, 2021
1 change
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All
Fixed a class issue.Both specs
April 7, 2021
2 changes
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PvE
Prime: Wheel of Fortune, Prime: Kamasylvia Slash: Skill behavior improved.
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All
Core: Spirit Hunt: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs
March 17, 2021
1 change
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All
Dark Nebula: Skill behavior improved.Both specs
February 25, 2021
1 change
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All
Shadow Strike: Fixed a skill issue.Both specs
