There currently are a few bugs / unfavourable behaviour with skills of the Dark Knight in Mainhand, Succession and Awakening skills. This post is meant to show all of these that are known to us.

Skill bugs:

Prime: Enforcement + Flow: Enforcement

Bug Description: According to the Skill UI, Prime: Enforcement III has 4 hits, and Flow: Termination has the hits of Enforcement + 1.
When testing this with Grim Reaper Elixir applied (+3 Heal on Hit), it becomes apparent that only 3 hits are applied for enforcement, and 4 for termination. This was done on a 100% hitrate target (See hitrate calculator: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/846318556105670696/846346760602386442/Screenshot_2021-05-24_at_13.19.25.png?width=1080&height=409)
Testing in BA with training dummies on both NA and EU yields the same result (so same hits in PvE)
Date of testing: Mon, 24th of May, but likely been happening for weeks / months
Evidence: Test on Standing Target (EU): https://youtu.be/UnZy0QySpKk;
Test on Grounded Target (EU): https://youtu.be/x8jrfNThdhM
Test on Training Dummy (NA): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPbKG6Z5x2s
Test on Training Dummy (EU): https://youtu.be/5fhCxZkRYxM

Analysing these videos shows the following Breakdown of hits applied (PvP):
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/846318556105670696/846352819120504862/Screenshot_2021-05-24_at_13.43.40.png?width=1037&height=529

Analysing these videos shows the following Breakdown of hits applied (PvP):
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/808763834466697217/846491746720546866/Screenshot_2021-05-24_at_22.55.47.png

Absolute: Hidden Strike

Bug Description: The skill Absolute: Hidden Strike has a 100% crit rate applied to it. This means, it should crit every time when a target is hit (see above). Currently, this is only applied in PvE. In PvP, the Crit Rate is either not applied at all or lower. No spec eva on the target
Date of testing: Mon, May 24th, but likely been happening for weeks / months
Evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VXaLpuH3lA

Absolute: & Prime: Nocturne

Date of testing: Fri, May 28th

Bug Description: After the balance patch of the 26th of May, the way nocturne behaves has been changed in the following manner:
(Equivalent for Absolute: Nocturne)

This Nocturne change has lead to a few likely unintended changes to Nocturnes behavior.

Part 1: The change of camera direction has lead to Nocturne now no longer teleporting the player behind the player in some situations, even when the reticle is red ("locked on target"), which was the requriement to do the targeted teleport behind before this patch. It happens when the reticle is slightly off target in melee range, but still locked on the target. This means that in actual gameplay, more often than not, Nocturne will fail and the player will simply appear back in front of the target locked in animation. The new interaction has an impact on both PvE as well as PvP due to the extended vulnerability and the lack of back attacks/ CC follow up through the teleport.

Evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0-vk6Pu2DY

Part 2: Before this patch, DKs could not exit out of the invisible phase of Nocturne other than by pressing W or S, as indicated on the skill description. However, currently it is possible to directly cast the skills "Smokey Haze" and "Air Strike" (both Absolute and Prime) while still invisible.

Evidence: https://youtu.be/xopTsdJpWqQ https://youtu.be/0T_sxyAs7UU

Part 3: This has been a bug for a long time already and has not been introduced in this patch, but it is still worth mentioning. When in the invisible state of Nocturne, when having the Ataraxia Kriegsmesser Outfit Piece Equipped, the "glow" of this weapon can still be seen even on low graphics.
Evidence: https://youtu.be/hl0NF7wJGZQ

Part 4: When in mid range and having the reticle locked on target, then using nocturne, and moving the camera off target (e.g. sideways, upwards or downwards), instead of teleporting behind the target, or reappearing like in Part 1, the skill defaults back to the behaviour that was changed last patch, and the player turns in place, exposing the back to the enemy.

Evidence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPLfTyMpbRY&ab_channel=Drazg https://youtu.be/XolKao1zc8s

Bon: Seed of Catastrophe

Bug Description: Seed of Catastrophe IV applies 7 hits on pve and pvp targets. However, when Core: Seed is chosen, only 5 hits are applied to targets.
Date of testing: Tested on Mon 24th May, but likely been around for a long time
Evidence: https://streamable.com/ux4p06; https://streamable.com/55et1n; https://youtu.be/H-68rpNsrsc; https://youtu.be/qMqdsldjjr0; https://youtu.be/XIxm28yfrG8

Prime: Kamasylvia Slash

Bug Description: Prime: Kamasylvia Slash could be cancelled by using Dusk at any point in the animation prior to the balance patch on the 26th. However, after the patch, when using the skill, the player is only able to cancel the windup animation, and can no longer cancel the slash itself. However, when using Dusk during the windup / charge, the slash can also be cancelled with Dusk. The bug only occurs when not dashing during the windup.
Date of testing: Fri, May 28th
Evidence: Cancelling the slash when dashing during windup: https://youtu.be/FeWWAcljsWY

Unable to cancel slash when not dashing: https://youtu.be/Nxpbp9Tv2h4; https://streamable.com/sds0uf

New Additions, June 17th:

Bug Description: When dashing twice (or more) to the right and then charging Prime: Kamasylvia Slash, then dashing twice again, the skill will go off as intended in the skill description. However, when doing this to the left, the skill does not activate after the dash.

After some testing, we have found that the direction of the first dashes (before charging) do not matter to activate the bug. However, only after charging kama slash, when dashin twice to the left, the bug appears, while it does not appear when dashing to the right.

Another condition for the bug to appear is that Chain: Dusk needs to be on CD (cooldown is running). When the player waits until the cooldown of Chain: Dusk is over (while holding Kama slash fully charged), after dashin twice to the left, the skill still activates.

It is necessary to dash to the left twice. Dashing only once still activates the skill. It does not matter if Kama Slash is fully charged or only partially charged, the behavior is the same. Additionally, it also does not matter if Dusk (the base version) is currently on cooldown or not. The skill will fail to activate in both cases when dashing to the left.

Date of testing: Thur, June 17th

Evidence: Examples of the skill failing to the left, but activating to the right: https://youtu.be/-z2Wncs5Mdw ; https://youtu.be/JXU3XiVO2GY

Example to show only the dash after the charge matters: https://youtu.be/mChm_HF9EN8

Example of the skll succeeding when dashing to the left when Chain: Dusk is not on CD (Only one dash before) : https://youtu.be/GtqjnEmFtG0

Example of skill succeeding when waiting until Chain: Dusk is off CD again (Two dashes before) : https://youtu.be/V3ZbFgB7xkQ

Example of skill succeeding when only dashing to the left once: https://youtu.be/vtSrQAxCwZs

Bug Description: When Charging Kamasylvia Slash, then dashing more than twice either to the left or the right, the skill will fail to activate. Before the maintenance of May 26th, this would only happen when dashing to the right. It was possible to dash to the left infinitively while holding Kama slash charged, and only release it when Stamina has run out (another restriction was that it was only possible to change directions once, and then dash a maximum of 1 time after the direction change). However, after the maintenance on May 26th, it is no longer possible to activate the skill after dashing more than twice in any direction. This is worded differentely in the patch note:

The wording here suggests that the issue was fixed where the skill woulnd't activate, which suggests that the dashing to the right part was fixed. However, now the skill has the same behaviour to the left as it has had to the right since succession was released.

Date of testing: Thur, June 17th (Date of recording, the issue was discovered directly after the maintenance of the 26th)

Evidence: Kama Slash failing to activate: https://youtu.be/64v1DpUalf4

Kama Slash before the patch of May 26th: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/590992627525091339/667524757591293972/BLACK_DESERT_-_347835_2020-01-17_01-24-08.mp4 ; https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/590992627525091339/667530196882030602/BLACK_DESERT_-_347835_2020-01-17_01-46-06.mp4 ; https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/590992627525091339/667530595743694868/BLACK_DESERT_-_347835_2020-01-17_01-47-36.mp4  (Filmed Jan 17th, 2020)

Dusk & Chain:Dusk with Prime Skills

Bug Description: When dashing twice (or more, Dusk needs to be on CD), and then using a Prime Skill, then dashing twice, and timing it so the first dash is still done while the CD is running, but the second is started when the CD of Dusk is over, the iframe and the cooldown does not activate for dusk on the second dash. This has been confirmed with different players, connections and hardware. It seems that either the skill "Dusk" is failing to activate, or the skill "Chain: Dusk" is being used as priority even when it is on CD.

Date of testing: Thur, June 17th

Evidence: https://youtu.be/3UkzB5Nh2Qk ; https://youtu.be/XD2emhNQWgY ; https://youtu.be/y9a5rSc-TAw (It is visible due to the lack of iframe protection icon, that the iframe is not applied on either of the dashes after charging kama slash / using air strike (the iframe is only activated on the third dash in this example)
More examples for other skills: https://www.naeu.playblackdesert.com/en-US/Community/Detail?topicNo=7495&topicType=27#

Unfavourable Behaviour

Absolute: Enforcement + Flow: Termination

Description: Currently, Flow: Termination when used with Absolute: Enforcement only applies 2 of its 4 hits at most ranges. To apply all 4 hits, the player needs to be in a specific position not directly close to the target. However, as this is a skill that is used to combo and usually as a second CC , keeping the range is highly unlikely. In a basic combo, the first CC can be applied, then the 2 skills Unveiled Dagger (for 10% attack speed) and Pervasive Darkness (-15 DP) will be used to buff / debuff. However, both skills move you close to the target, and it will not be possible to use termination with 4 hits, unless you dash backwards, and miss time you could use for other damaging skill. Before this hitbox change, enforcement + termination used to be one of the strongest damaging abilities in the mainhand kit even for awakening. However, using it in a combo currently makes you lose damage, and even using Air Strike as a second CC is more damage than Enforcement + Termination.

As the attack is unprotected and too slow to use for a CC, being unable to use it in a combo without losing combo damage means that this skill is basically becoming useless. This is not really a bug with the skill itself, but something that has been changed a few months / weeks ago (the correct time is hard to say as it was only discovered and tested later). However, this is extremely disadvantageous and I wanted to use this opportunity to draw attention to it.

Evidence: Hitbox / Distance for 4 hits on Termination: https://streamable.com/markdj

Comparison only 2 hits: https://streamable.com/5h4yyt

Absolute: Enforcement + Flow: Termination & Prime: Enforcement + Flow: Enforcement

Description: Some of the time, when using the Skills Enforcement & Flow: Termination on Dark Knight, the air attack that is supposed to apply on Flow: Termination if the Float CC is applied does not work. Even though you can see more Crits apply while the target is in the air (which qualifies them for air attack and confirms that hits apply in the airborne phase), Air Attack only procs sometimes. This was tested on BA dummies (no Special Attack Evasion).
It is not clear if this is due to hitboxes, due to the missing hits of Termination, or an actual bug. It is still something that we noticed and wanted to spread awareness of.
Evidence: Dummies EU Prime: Enforcement: https://streamable.com/sk0hfq, https://streamable.com/baflr7
Dummies NA Prime: Enforcement: https://streamable.com/rqfqok
Dummies EU Absolute: Enforcement: https://streamable.com/3pz74s
Real Target EU Prime: Enforcement (No Spec Eva): https://streamable.com/5ir30f , Confirmation from Tester Perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eni7odi8a4&ab_channel=AquaBorsec
Real Target EU Prime Enforcement (No Spec Eva, Downed Target: https://streamable.com/7hacd6, Confirmation from Tester Perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1VQD6FpwG8&ab_channel=AquaBorsec
Dummies SEA Prime: Enforcement: https://streamable.com/4f2mg3 (Note: Air attack is applied more often here for some reason, but the number of hits still varies between each attempt)
Dummies SA Absolute: Enforcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lNqzNikD-k (Same as SEA, more hits than on EU/NA, but inconsistent)
Other player EU: https://streamable.com/5pjd5p (20% spec eva)

Prime: Twilight Dash

Description: When dashing through a target at close range, only 1 hit of the skill is applied as different to the awakening version, no hit stagger is applied. That means when using this skill in a combo, same as above for Absolute: Enforcement, the damage is very low / non existent as you end up close to the target during the combo. This leads to this skill not being useable during a combo, even thought the use of Prime: Enforcement + Termination + Prime: Twilight for the air attack used to be extremely high damage. Now, it does very little damage and other options are better. Same as above, this is not a bug, but behaviour that has been different in the past, and is weird to use now.

Evidence: https://youtu.be/J5Epaqkb0AE

Let me know if there are any other skill bugs you are aware of, and I will gladly add them to the thread.

Fix my UwU class plx

3 New Additions were made to the skill bugs. Thank you for the help to the DKs who alerted me of these.

Hopefully we can get something to acknowledge these, I've experienced a few of these in just casual duels with friends. Prime: Kama slash > dusk to the left is super frustrating lmao. Upvoted for publicity, thanks for bringing it up Minarya o/