Th Shadowknight class has a few downers, and more now with the last patch and its possibly out of era Disease Cloud nerf. Your sustained damage output ranges from low to middling depending on level and equipment. Your burst is fair at high levels, but sustainable only for minutes followed by long recovery. Lifetaps don't work against a great many raid monsters on P1999 for no classic reason beyond the admins here felt like adding it on a whim. High-end guilds hate it, lower-end players misunderstand it, and relatively few people care much about the parts of the game where it serves best. Long story short, it is not for no reason the shadowknight is one of the most common characters I see people stripping and parting out in East Commons. They get to the middle level range where the game starts to get harder and nope out.
It has its strengths. I like my own shadowknight very well and still prefer logging it on over any other character on P1999. It tanks adequately for groups and lower-end raids. It solos fairly well by melee standards, travels well for a melee, and sneaks in and out of dungeons very well. It doesn't have to fuss with consumables all that much. Pulling is slower than monk pulling but in some ways easier thanks to tools like snare and fear (a feared caster isn't breaking anyone's Feign). Paired with the wife's shaman, we can duo about anything the more talked-about monk/shaman will duo if we're talking equivalent-geared characters.
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