DRK Fix Salted Earth Please

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Originally Posted by Garlan

I never said Salted Earth was unique as an overall concept, just unique for DRK when its kit is compared to other tanks. No other tank has a static AoE they have to place to output additional DPS. Also, comparing Salted Earth and Scourge is not really a fair comparison - one is an AoE oGCD with a CD and the other is a spammable ST GCD weaponskill. The fact both happen to be DoT's is irrelevant.

People are crying for DRK to gain an identity, and I firmly believe Salted Earth can be a powerful tool in accomplishing this. Square could pivot into adding enhanced defensive utility to a DRK who happens to stand within their own patch of Salted Earth during the duration - a small HP/MP leech for each target damaged per tick, a minor 5-10% damage reduction, increased healing from healing actions, ect. For all the WoW veterans, a good example of what I hope could happen with DRK and Salted Earth would be how Blood Death Knight gains defensive benefits from their Heart Strike/Blood Boil abilities while they stand within their Death and Decay.

The keyword is iconic, Dark arts was an iconic skill and mechanic, Darkside was an iconic skill and mechanic, Salted earth is just a generic skill placed on one of the tanks, being difereciated in the role for a generic skill present on other roles is not what i personally consider ideal to make DRK get a proper identity again specially when DRK complains about identity are based on DRK being just a bunch of copy pasted skills from other jobs and a absurd amount of fluff so it's normal why ppl think it should be no more.

semantics aside yeah Salted earth could be better but considering we are craving for unique skills and mechanics no present on any job in the game modifing Salted earth would archive nothing at all or to be fair very little at least and is better take it away and bring other old skills that did way more that this round ground aoe.