What I would consider the most straightfowrd way to address DRK

6.08 can be very simple
-Blood Weapon duration extended to 13 seconds
-Oblation Charge time reduced to 40 seconds


Blood weapon gets a nice edgy number for flavor, but also allows for a really consistent 5 hits even with spells mixed in. Every blood weapon gives a BlackBlood ability so the core rotation is consistent. For those who are on it and invest into SkS you can cram a 6th in there for a modest but important DPS increase over where we are now.

I am totally fine with DRK not having a lot of sustain and being relatively high risk high reward as DPS king. Its only that GNB currently does way too similar damage to have such a dissimilar defensive kit. Giving DRK some elbow room at the top while still keeping it comfortably in tank numbers sounds good too me.

As for sustain, Oblation would be "up" to do a 20 second stretch every dungeon pull which would go a long ways to stress healers less and would overall be usable at a slightly higher tempo in boss fights which will help it feel more "present" and part of our regular toolkit and also makes it more comfortable to toss out to party members instead of hoarding it for our poor defenseless selves.

I think they should just put BW on stacks like every other ability of that type and call it a day.

Here's what I want:

Blood Weapon on stacks.

Abyssal Drain costing 3k mana and having no cooldown. Perhaps make it single target and rebalance the numbers, e.g. 250 potency damage and 600 potency heal.

When Living Dead pops it should give you two status effects: Walking Dead, which kills you if not cleansed, and Undying Fortitude, which prevents you from going below 1 HP and increases healing received by 20%. Undying Fortitude pesists for the full duration even when Walking Dead is cleansed.

Dark Missionary moved to lvl 70.

Those are the bare minimum and pretty straightforward. Of course I also want Shadowbringer to not just be another Flood, Enhanced Unmend to change, TBN not being punishing if it doesn't pop, Salt and Darkness to go because it's just bloat, some old animations to come back etc. etc.

Tbh if we had a big haste on BW to feel a big frantic burst of speed (like 1.5s GCD for 5 weaponskills) it'd be very fun

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Originally Posted by Kalaam

Tbh if we had a big haste on BW to feel a big frantic burst of speed (like 1.5s GCD for 5 weaponskills) it'd be very fun

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I think we'd have to reduce the amount of OGCDs we have to toss out for this.

Maybe discouraging double-weaving yeah, that's why having more irregular CDs would help, I think. Rathar than blowing all at once