DRK Lamentations/requests

[Age_of_Oblivion]

Having been playing it at 70 for a while now, I have to agree with the complaints. Even TBN has serious issues - the five second long window makes it difficult to use for anything other than tankbusters. Why not make it 10 seconds? Dark Passenger has become a defensive cooldown for huge pulls (we're talking like 9+ here), and other than that just shouldn't be used. We lost a lot of pretty animations and the levelling process is terrible now. I like the change away from Darkside draining mana - that mechanic added complexity to the floor of playing the class, and felt suppressive. But there needs to be more room in the skill ceiling too - New Delirium and BW every two minutes for effectively infinite mana/blood is entertaining but pretty simplistic.

[Kalocin]

Having been playing it at 70 for a while now, I have to agree with the complaints. Even TBN has serious issues - the five second long window makes it difficult to use for anything other than tankbusters. Why not make it 10 seconds? Dark Passenger has become a defensive cooldown for huge pulls (we're talking like 9+ here), and other than that just shouldn't be used. We lost a lot of pretty animations and the levelling process is terrible now. I like the change away from Darkside draining mana - that mechanic added complexity to the floor of playing the class, and felt suppressive. But there needs to be more room in the skill ceiling too - New Delirium and BW every two minutes for effectively infinite mana/blood is entertaining but pretty simplistic.

I think the "no high skill ceiling" is a good way to put it outside of using TBN before server ticks (the real high skill ceiling) on big hits.