[DRK] Wanna know why Unleashed & Abyssal Drain are both needed?

[Disc]

Warriors do more AOE damage than Drk's, at no cost.

You try to capitalize on your AOE damage as a Drk and you'll have no MP left for the next pull and wont be able to control AOE enmity anymore. Thats sort of.. worse than doing mediocre at best AOE damage.

Salted Earth alone is a massive DPS boost for DRK at no additional cost. Unleash/Abyssal drain will be spammed often just for hate, and see extra AoE damage put out for DRK just because that's part of what it does. If you attempt to approach A2S as a single target fight you're going to have terrible hate, MP issues from lack of Blood Price returns, and terrible damage.

Congratulations, you used an ilv 200 weapon to pull 30 DPS lower than the WAR in my previous FC who used an ilv 190 weapon: Video here. I skipped to the end of the fight so you can see the parse.

It's a first kill video and neither of the WARs was "trying" to max DPS.

Looks like 23DPS lower to me, and over 350DPS higher than the second WAR. You’re right though. DRK is garbage only pulling 97.7% of the DPS an OT WAR pulled in an entire encounter.

The reason why it is used so often in A1S is due to the magical tank buster that DRK can effortlessly mitigate with DA Dark Mind + Shadowskin stacked with Delirium 100% of the time, guaranteed.

That's a terrible reason to use it considering it's the weakest actual mitigation combo of all 3 tanks. The benefit of DRK over PLD is mainly in phase 1, before you see the tankbuster.

1020 DPS? I smell a merged parse.


I am going to be blunt and say you have no idea what you are talking about at all. At a 25% drain rate, for this to hit as hard as a standard Non-DA Souleater, this would have to hit 9 enemies.

Souleater is the closer on a three part combo. Hitting nine would allow you heal just as much in a single GCD, or three times as much in three GCDs. That would be a very significant heal without DA requirements.