Originally Posted by
Soidisant
Sure they got Restraint and Impetus. And what did we get? Our Last Resort duration increased six fold. Now what adds more damage. Restraint, Impetus or an extra 150 seconds of Last Resort/Desperate Blows. I'm fairly certain it is the third option.
Yes you get far more use out of Scarlet Delirium if you have an Apocalypse but taking that out of the equation is like taking Ukon/Vere out of the equation for WAR and MNK. But if you take away Ukko's Fury from WAR's or Victory Smite from MNK's then there isn't a great deal of damage difference between DRK, WAR and MNK. Apocalypse makes DRK a ton better in exactly the same way that Verethragna and Ukonvasara do for WAR and MNK.
A parse between a non-empy/woe WAR, DRK and MNK would be pretty close if it was a level playing field (i.e. outside Abyssea). Part of DRK's problem was that other DD jobs got monstrous Empyrean WS'es and DRK did not, at least not inside Abyssea. And because everyone still has that lolDRK mentality from Abyssea, we are seen as terrible DD's outside Abyssea when that is not the case at all.