DRK - Excessive Dark Arts

[SyzzleSpark]

If DRKs don't do enough damage, that's an easy and natural fix that will happen over time. Spamming Dark Arts however isn't something they'll naturally change unless enough people complain about how much they don't like it. That's the point of this thread. It isn't "buff DRKs they suck worst tank" or anything like that, it's how we fundamentally play the job and its style versus other jobs, that's what really matters way more.

The point is a lot of us LIKE the DA playstyle. A lot of us LIKE having to actively boost individual hits with extra timed button presses. Its like doing a Smash attack in SSB. In terms of plain-old muscle memory and the way the job feels in your hands, a lot of us find it engaging, fun, fast paced, and exciting. If you don't want to play a job that requires so many button presses, there are others out there. Its like saying Bloodletter procs feel bad on BRD. They don't. They're amazing.

For me, DA is a button that makes me feel like I'm exploding with power and needing to press it often to keep from losing control and overflowing. Its exciting trying to keep your MP down during BW and Delirium BW windows.

This is not a problem with the job. It is not something that NEEDS fixing. And considering that it is something that makes the job unique, I don't want to see it go away, and again, there are a fair few things about DRK right now that are ACTUAL problems and do need to be addressed. This just really isn't one of them. If anything the jobs playstyle and general feeling in the players' hands is one of the few things they did right in the expansion. Most jobs in this game press a button every 60-90s and and go about their rotation. DRK has to actively press this button to reap the benefits and that is what makes it exciting.

The other thing, is that all of the potency we lost from Reprisal and Low Blow got distributed to our extra DA casts. So without DAing extra abilities not only would they have to put that potency elsewhere, but they would also have to give us some other mana dump that we have to use just as often or completely retune our mana returns (again), lest we be unable to keep our MP down.