Quote Originally Posted by KDSilver View Post
"DRK also has zero party defensive skills"

I wonder what The Blackest Night actually is then !
Maybe just some other useless dark flashy skill

TBN is awful to use. Lag is terrible with TBN and can shave 2 of the 5 seconds of duration. So you have to time it pretty freakin well even if you want it to be remotely useful. Also it does a 10% HP shield on a SINGLE party member. TBN also costs 2400 MP. The 15 second CD implies you can use it for DPS but with Dark Arts/Souleater spam competing for your MP resource a some people argue that using TBN for DPS is a DPS loss. Even on tankbusters TBN is not very effective unless paired with rampart/shadow wall/awareness...

Its not comparable to Shake it off, Passage of Arms...These abilities can flat out reduce party damage and costs no resource and they are on relatively short cooldowns..