DRK: Dark Dance

I think this would be a much cooler spell if it was changed too...

Dark Dance: Defensive Version
Parry the next two attacks.
Restore MP for each attack parried.
Duration: 7 seconds.
Recast: 15 seconds.
Can only be used in Darkside.

Or


Dark Dance: Offensive Version
Increases Parry Chance by 40%.
Delivers an attack with a potency of 50 every time you parry.
Duration: 10 seconds.
Recast: 20 seconds.
Can only be used in Darkside.

Remove the Darkside+Darkside Evasion from it.

This would make it a lot better to the class.

I would much rather it be changed to...

Sheltron Dark Dance:
Parries the next physical attack.
Partial MP restored upon parry.
Duration: 20 seconds.
Recast: 30 seconds.
Can only be used in Darkside.

It's annoying when 3 out of 10 pulls leave me with no parry or Reprisal proc to mitigate a big cleave.

Talathion, I feel like that's the same person who trolled eq2 flames... Lol maybe somebody else, I'll have to check... Lol

I really don't see what they were thinking adding an evasion bonus to it with darkarts when we need a parry to get the proc for reprisal and it didn't help that it is off gcd. But given the way shield swipe works on PLD if reprisal was on gcd wed rarely give the debuff.

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Originally Posted by Dererk

I really don't see what they were thinking adding an evasion bonus to it with darkarts when we need a parry to get the proc for reprisal and it didn't help that it is off gcd. But given the way shield swipe works on PLD if reprisal was on gcd wed rarely give the debuff.

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Not to mention we want to get hit for blood price

I'd rather it be turned into something like this

Dark Dance: Parries the next physical attack within 10s and returns a percentage of the amount parried as Unaspected Magic Damage. Dark Arts Effect: Dark Dance will now parry the next magical attack within 10s.

I'd rather it stay as it is. Works pretty well with any defense cool down in dungeons or raids.

WHile I know it's neither optimal or mana efficient, I really do like the feel of combining DA+DD and DA+DP. It's just really fun to see Dodge fly through the text in rapid succession.

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Originally Posted by Seku

I'd rather it stay as it is. Works pretty well with any defense cool down in dungeons or raids.

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Except it's a weaker version of Keen Flurry and lacks any form of consistency thereby making it an awful CD without the use of Dark Arts. It amounts to a 6% damage reduction if you use it without Dark Arts, which puts it slightly below Foresight in terms of mitigation. Foresight is also consistent. Furthermore, evasion lacks synergy with Blood Price as well as our parry mechanics.

Dodging is also counterproductive to our abilities.

We need less "Dark Art" abilities. We are pretty mana starved as is.