Regarding no DRK adjustments in 4.1

[whiskeybravo]

Theres your hole. That's it. Drk is 1 medium CD away from virtual parity with other 2. Tob is weaker than passage, but doesn't stop damage and has a shorter CD. Drk needs 1 medium-ish CD to balance the scales. That's it in defense.

I made a fairly simply spreadsheet to analyze cd rotation uptime. I guess the result wasn't really surprising

WAR: Vengeance, Rampart, Thrill+Conv, Raw+Awareness, Anticipation
DRK: Shadow Wall, Rampart, Awareness, Anticipation, Conv
PLD: Sentinal, Rampart, Bulwark, Awareness, Anticipation, Conv, Passage

Methodology has WAR using the 2 combo'd abilities per synergy. If we didn't use them together it would be about equal to PLD duration. 300 second rolling CD rotation to find gaps (windows) where there isn't a buff available.

War: 2 windows of 5-sec no buff
Drk: 3 windows of 5 sec each, 1 window of 10 sec no buff
Pld: No windows. Cds to rotate the entire 300 sec

So, yes, I think the key to fixing DRK is Shadow Wall reduction. If reduced to 120 sec cd with 15 sec duration it would actually be slightly better than War with only 1 5-sec window with no buff. I know the cds themselves are not all equal, but I really wanted to find out exactly how much difference there was between having buffs up and not. Obviously this isn't a "real-world" type scenario, just for comparison purposes.

It looked a little something like this: