Because DRK was sooooo OP right?.....RIGHT?

[Trilius]

Grats to BRD's? For them fixing the issue with Bloodletter or am I missing something.

[Dererk]

A stack of dark arts would be good to have it takes so much mp to just use 1.

[FallenArisen0990]

It was a bug. Fixing it is not a nerf.
That´s it.

That sounds like a nerf to me base on what it's description says.

[LambLich]

Grats to BRD's? For them fixing the issue with Bloodletter or am I missing something.

Thats all they did...

[Deathshiro]

And with it they broke AoE Dark Arts abilities

Dark Arted an Abyssal Drain on 10 targets? Gets hp from one of said targets!
Dark Arted a Dark Passenger on 10 targets? Blind & extra dmg only goes on one of said targets!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SUCH GOOD
/s

[Rhaja]

Glad I didn't bother putting Abyssal drain on my hotbar XD

[Ditto]

It was a bug, we all knew it was going to happen eventually, even if we hoped SE might overlook it for our sake.

Thing is though, is even if it were a bug fix, it directly nerfs Drk's damage. Whether it was the intention or not. With it, we could keep up with other tanks at least as far as damage went.

Without it, well I guess we'll just have to find out.

[dank1]

Wait can anyone explain what they nerfed exactly? Er or fixed?

I was under the impression dark arts faded as soon as you used any skill that was affected by dark art's effect i.e. souleater never noticed that the effect lingered after i used it said skill

[Cervani]

And with it they broke AoE Dark Arts abilities

Dark Arted an Abyssal Drain on 10 targets? Gets hp from one of said targets!
Dark Arted a Dark Passenger on 10 targets? Blind & extra dmg only goes on one of said targets!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO SUCH GOOD
/s

I just confirmed this. Gathered four mobs up in Hinterlands and DA+A. Drained them... only got one tick of HP back instead of four. Looks like they screwed it.

[Starkbeaumont]

Wait can anyone explain what they nerfed exactly? Er or fixed?

I was under the impression dark arts faded as soon as you used any skill that was affected by dark art's effect i.e. souleater never noticed that the effect lingered after i used it said skill

buff was used when the skill registered on an enemy, so using a long animation skill like carve and spit in combination with a fast one like souleater, the effect of DA would actually count for both. and that's what SE fixed now. unfortunately they also broke dark passenger and abyssal drain during DA now, as the added effect only lasts for 1 hit. instead of all.