Edge/Flood of Darkness/Shadow share a cooldown timer, why?

Like seriously, why have those 2 abilities share a cooldown timer when it would have been better to make them GCD?

DRK lost a lot of actually usable GCD and oGCD for oGCD skills that share a recast timer because.... Why exactly? It's not button bloat that's for sure...

both skills are the same, edge it's for single target and flood is for aoes, they effect is the same but they are designed for diferent encounters.

They could have easily achieved the exact same result by making Dark Passenger combo off of Unleash, which would allow Abyssal Drain combo off of Dark Passenger, but they it really feels the Yoshi-P and devs didn't even put any thought into DRK at all though when it comes to this sort of thing...

Heck you could re-implement Power Slash combo to where you need to activate and maintain Darkside and the could-have-been AoE combo maintains Darkside and Souleater would still be the combo you spam the most and would be somewhat fun... They could go the extra mile by still adding Edge/Flood of Darkness/Shadow be a 4th combo button or even make Queitus and Bloodspiller 5th combo for those 2 could-have-been Darkside maintenance combos but they didn't...

Also I HATE Edge/Flood of Darkness/Shadow animations... they are terrible compared to Power Slash combo, Dark Passenger, AND Scourge...

the fun thing is flood is dark passenger with a new skin and now extend you darkside thats all, i just imagine they did that to have the feeling of have a new thing.

There is a lot of valid problems that people have with DRK. However, this is one of the more pointless things I have read on the class.

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Originally Posted by Trayes

There is a lot of valid problems that people have with DRK. However, this is one of the more pointless things I have read on the class.

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Trust me, as a former DRK main going GNB main, DRK has a lot of problems, and a lot of the DRK changes when going from Stormblood to Shadowbringers makes ask, "What was the point of adding "new" abilities if they just make the class/job worse?" since a lot of the backlash on DRK balance changes could have been avoided by addressing many core problems that it had in Stormblood that was circumvented with some actually good adjustments, but they just cut out abilities that could have easily been repurposed to do something else.

Or was FF14 spaghetti code still causing problems on that front...?

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Originally Posted by shao32

the fun thing is flood is dark passenger with a new skin and now extend you darkside thats all, i just imagine they did that to have the feeling of have a new thing.

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I would have excepted that if it comboed off of Dark Passenger...

We really only needed the one button push, its not like there was ever an aoe heavy thrust(now disembowel) but flood def would be cool if it was an aoe combo chain instead of what it is,

Because you are supposed to choose between one or the other, you aren't supposed to use both at the same time. They are situational. Sorry but your question doesn't make any sense.

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Originally Posted by Cosaint

Because you are supposed to choose between one or the other, you aren't supposed to use both at the same time. They are situational. Sorry but your question doesn't make any sense.

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Its an additional refresh button, its existance is entirely built upon that one "situation" it could do anything else, and still be an aoe supplement. They got rid of ultimatum, can you tell me why? Ill tell you why, we already had single target provoke.

Edge and Flood are mainly ment to get your darkside buff. Any extra you get in beyond maintaining it is to your gain.

They also gave us two so we had one for an oGCD version for single and AoE situations, which is important because they made the single-target the more powerful one. If they had just made it combo off either Unleash or Dark Passenger would mean it would also have to only be an AoE version, and thus the less powerful one. Which depending on they did it would be fine for the DP one but personally I like the way Edge and Flood work right now.

The only thing I don't like is that Flood doesn't use DP's animation. I understand why, Flood's animation is both much faster AND looks like Cecil's Darkness skill which both DP and Flood are based on, but I still liked the DP animation.

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Originally Posted by ADVSS

Its an additional refresh button, its existance is entirely built upon that one "situation" it could do anything else, and still be an aoe supplement. They got rid of ultimatum, can you tell me why? Ill tell you why, we already had single target provoke.

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Your comparison doesn't make sense. Edge and Flood are both useful skills and a DPS gain when used correctly.
Ultimatum was completely useless outside some very niche uses that could be circumvented through the use of Provoke. Basically it got cut as players didn't feel the need to use it. That is not the case of Edge/Flood of Shadow.

Edge and Flood aren't simply Darkside refresh buttons though, they're pretty powerful attacks in their own right, and the definitely makes a difference in single-target/trash-pull contexts.

Edge and Flood both have a 2 second recast. That's likely there to prevent you from doubleweaving these abilities with themselves for 1000+ potency. The shared recast is likely there for a similar reason.