Dark Arts Dark Dance

I don't think anyone will argue that drk has some peculiar design choices, but this one grates on me the worst. The base ability is not only weaker than Drg's keen flurry, but then if you dump your mp on it you get an evasion buff that's only good in trash content- and even then you could argue that the 20% evasion isn't a significant mitigation gain when you consider the free stun refreshes you're losing.

I just don't want to see them sweep this one under the rug, even if it's slipped the community's current ire.

I think it's perfectly fine for classes to have skills meant to deal with trash.

Dark dance is one of the most interesting skills for me, of course outside raids. After pulling a massive mob and using blood price with mitigations I wait for blood price until it has 5sec left then I use Dark Arts>Dark Passenger>Dark Arts>Dark Dance and I become the god of dodging.

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Originally Posted by Strident

I think it's perfectly fine for classes to have skills meant to deal with trash.

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For sure.
But the evasion buff still sucks. It should be something that doesn't interfere with Blood Price instead.

I'm going to agree wit Yaichiro. Since I don't actively raid the ability is more fun for me. Lots of trash makes this ability really shine. DA+DD and DA+DP together is a really fun combo. In raid environments you'll want that Dark Arts buff more for Dark Mind, or a DPS ability. Even at 80% chance to parry, it's still RNG and we've all seen how bitter this games RNG can be >__>

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Originally Posted by Rbstr

For sure.
But the evasion buff still sucks. It should be something that doesn't interfere with Blood Price instead.

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I think you're one of the those who pop everything you got all together, well it doesn't work like that. In order to use dark dance efficiently you have to wait untill blood price is about to end also called managing your cds.

Yeah I'm not a big Fan of the DA+DD combo either, I rather use it on DP or Abyssal drain for the HP back if on big Mobs, talking some nice HP return there........for about 3 seconds.

20% Evasion also hurts you.

It hurts you how?

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Originally Posted by Yaichiro

Dark dance is one of the most interesting skills for me, of course outside raids. After pulling a massive mob and using blood price with mitigations I wait for blood price until it has 5sec left then I use Dark Arts>Dark Passenger>Dark Arts>Dark Dance and I become the god of dodging.

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Being the god of dodging is fun times.

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Originally Posted by Nektulos-Tuor

20% Evasion also hurts you.

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Only if you're silly enough to increase your Evasion while Blood Price is still ticking.