If You Were A Class/Job Designer...

[Syzygian]

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In AoE situations most DRKs let up on their AD spam about 1-2 GCDs before BP is gonna fall so they will be topped off on MP. From there its just HS (DA) SS (DD) DE (Awareness/Foresight or something) HS (DA) SS (DP) DE - and you still have about half your mana left and you're dodging left and right. You still get off the big DADP hits you just wait slightly until you're not gonna be losing BP returns from it. And honestly if you really must have all of your AoE lumped very nicely together, you could just weave your DADP into the tail-end of your AD spam.

The "why do I have abilities the let me dodge when I wanna be hit/parry stuff" grievance is as old as the expansion, but good players that main DRK have long-since worked around it, with fantastic results in the context in which it matters (dungeons/trash). Its just a matter of using your abilities efficiently and its fallacious to consider it a design flaw IMO. I could see the argument if BP was a persistent buff, but it isn't - you have 25 seconds of downtime in which DRK doesn't care if it is hit or not.

And yes, if you're dodging you'll see fewer LB/Reprisal procs, but remember the context we're discussing - AoE/trash/dungeons. Whether or not you get to poke 1-2 mobs out of 8-9 with LB or Reprisal is pretty moot, and the sheer math of the scenario suggests that even if you're dodging, with that many mobs hitting you, you'll still get procs. If this were a boss, yeah, that would suck. But you can't dodge bosses until you severely overgear them.

There are things about DRK I'd like to see improved on but the dodge/parry/proc/blood price mechanics have never really bothered me, nor has holding back on the crazy evasion CDs until BP has fallen. There's countless instances of jobs holding off on certain CDs or abilities for an opportune moment or point in their rotation, so its nothing new.