Perma shelved my DRK: No role, no idenity, no lore, no worthwhile skills, no fun

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Originally Posted by Giubba

Be my guest. If the data show that more people play a job compared to its previous iteration debts take it as confirmation that the changes are good....if they retained the previous population. At the moment is simply a fuck off to the heavensward player and partially to stormblood and a welcome to the WAR unngabunga muh damage crowd

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the increase of DRK players have much more to do with all the marketing around the expansion is based on DRK being the poster boy and the theme of SHB that the rework itself.

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Originally Posted by shao32

the increase of DRK players have much more to do with all the marketing around the expansion is based on DRK being the poster boy and the theme of SHB that the rework itself.

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Oh I perfectly agree with you but at this point I'm not even sure if they are able to interpret the data correctly

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Originally Posted by Giubba

Oh I perfectly agree with you but at this point I'm not even sure if they are able to interpret the data correctly

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the question is, they even recopilate data? ^^

I agree with everything you said OP. DRK is so watered-down and boring now. They took away all of the depth and innovation the job had, and just left it in pieces. Before ShB, I had mained DRK for years, it was my favorite class by a landslide...I remember being so excited each time I saw it get slightly buffed in the 4.X patches, thinking that said buffs were leading up to DRK's amazing bloom in ShB...boy was I wrong.

After being pretty devastated at what they had done to my class, I ended up pulling a Cecil and switched from a DRK main to a PLD main. I still leveled DRK to 80 though (was not a fun time...), only in hopes that SE realizes their mistakes and gives DRK its true rework. If that time comes, I will be ready to become a DRK again.

Does someone know why they keep taking away the cool animations and leave the crappy ones?

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Originally Posted by Aluja89

Does someone know why they keep taking away the cool animations and leave the crappy ones?

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Hell I just want Shadow Skin back! It was always Paladins skill pre Stormblood and I still don’t think it’s animation fits with DRK.

I get that some don't like the rework and you are welcome to your opinions, but I really find these rose-tinted recollections of the Heavensward and Stormblood versions of dark to be quite odd. I think more people that are touting the greatness of these past incarnations should go back and read the feedback that was being given at those times. They might be surprised by what was being said, sometimes even by themselves.

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Originally Posted by TouchandFeel

I get that some don't like the rework and you are welcome to your opinions, but I really find these rose-tinted recollections of the Heavensward and Stormblood versions of dark to be quite odd. I think more people that are touting the greatness of these past incarnations should go back and read the feedback that was being given at those times. They might be surprised by what was being said, sometimes even by themselves.

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Don't understand it either. Living Dead still sucks. Here we are 2 xpac later.

I'm not here to argue DRK changes with you, But the DRK Questline has the best story of most if not all the Job Questlines.

So hooray we still got that...?

Ah man, DRK what's happened to you child?

I've been saying a few times we should have DRK become an MP zerker, above 50% MP changes its skills to more utility/partywide effects, etc cd's, while below 50% makes it deal more damage selfishly and more self sustain etc cd's, then make it revolve around rotating when you should be high on MP or lower on it depending on the situation or your cooldowns. No one bats an eye at this idea though so this is prolly the last time I'll try mentioning the concept lol.