Does everyone agree that 3.xx DRK was WAY BETTER than 4.xx DRK?

Self explanatory but will elaborate further if necessary; was 3.xx DRK more balance than 4.xx DRK and did cross class give an idea of kind of tank DRK would be in 3.xx? Or are people still trying to convince themselves DRK is fine...? I honestly was of the people who took the balance changes with a grain of salt but said salt was enough to put me into a state of shock as to how bad DRK really was once I hit level 70 endgame... Also 1 of those early access Stormblood players so.... yeah... enough salt to fill Ilberd's grave... maybe even Y'shtola's grave if she tries to tank a hit from a obvious DPS beast... AGAIN!!!


UPDATE: I also forgot to mention PVP 3.xx DRK over PVP 4.xx DRK and if it's better or worse, for frontlines it's obviously worse with the idea about 1v1 or 4v4 but that's assuming way more factors are in play(i.e. someone is getting into PVP for the first time and might be discouraged by the number of bots in PVP in Frontlines because PVP is so boring it's better to watch a bunch of bots play PVP)

I miss the defensive kit we had and how our dps combo wasn't "SoUL EaTEr aLl tEh ThInGS"

Nah, HW DRK was a badly designed, unbalanced mess.

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Originally Posted by Launched

Nah, HW DRK was a badly designed, unbalanced mess.

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Just like 4.x's badly designed, unbalanced mess.

I prefer 3.x's mess way more than 4.x's personally.

I want DRK 3.x back, but with all the current skills and rotations of SB honestly. I stopped playing DRK because it's a joke compared to PLD and WAR now in content. Or at least, it feels that way from dungeon pulls to endgame stuff. :l

was a pretty good tank on HW so well designed for no say the best of the 3, not overpowered, not underpowered, was the ideal tank, no trash skills (except grit) strong points and fair weak points, fluid, faster, i miss old darkside mp managment, i dont say actual DRK is bad, i actually enjoy it but miss the sinergy the old one have now all was standardized.

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Originally Posted by Launched

Nah, HW DRK was a badly designed, unbalanced mess.

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Would you play Stormblood DRK over Heavensward DRK? I'm honestly waiting for switchaxe glamour for both DRK and WAR so I can finally have an excuse to play WAR... if you played Monster Hunter games you would know what I am talking about...

I don't think any job was better in the past because we got sweet new moves like Bloodspiller and The Blackest Night. But I can agree that some of the stuff they removed was actually good. For DRK it probably wouldn't be very hard to improve the balance but they have their reasons I guess for not making adjustments yet. There probably should have been an official response on the forums to the large volume of DRK feedback they received.

You had more buttons to push. That's about it.

All I ask is the ability to use SCYTHES as a weapon rather than a glamour on the DRK class. And get rid of or at least adjust the GSWORD or Scythe options on the class. I miss my old Scythe from XI. Q_Q rip Apoc/Liberator </3