Please make the Soul Eater heal not Grit-locked with DRK 4.3 changes

[Chrono_Rising]

The fact we get all these changes in 4.3 and still want more shows how poor of a state DRK is in...

Top of my list is living dead, people have wanted that adjusted since DRK was added.
Then souleater and abyssal drain having a 50% hp drain as standard, then 100% with grit/dark arts respectively.
Just making blood weapon and blood price into stances and adjusting delerium to boost them.
Shadow wall could still use some kind of gimmick like how vengeance gets counter attacks.

Yeah as I think about it there are still things that feel like they could use adjustment. For example why do we gain less than 50 blood with blood weapon, when not enhanced by delirium? Why not tune this to be worth 1 bloodspiller, without requiring delirium? Why does blood price on its own generate only half a bloodspiller and needs dark arts to get a full bloodspiller. I realize thats alittle harder to balance with multiple targets, but single target is generally what people care about. Just my two cents. Why not cap our mana out just a smidge higher to be able to hold 4 dark arts instead of being 120 mana short of 9600. Just tweaks, nothing major, but things that would just feel right imo.

To be clear, the changes are great and a great step forward, but I agree with you the conversation is not over in terms of a few things still not feeling just quite there.

[InfiniDragon]

I agree DRK could still use tweaks but these were a step in the right direction for sure.

Since the idea SE seems to have for DRK now is strong personal mitigation on shorter CDs, a thought I had for Shadow Wall was a Regen effect while up. Combined with the new Sole Survivor it could be a pretty powerful counter to busters you take with Wall + TBN.

[WhyAmIHere]

Just my two sense.

Everything about this post is great except this.
It's cents, my dude.

Changes fixed some good QoL things for the class, but there's still more that can be done to improve the job. Really just highlights how much / little design thought went into how they made DRK for 4.0

[bustamanteverde]

Boggles my mind how the Dark magic/blood knight has such weak leech abilities. WAR knocks DRK out of the water with self heals

[shao32]

add increse plunge range to 20y, idk why they keep it at 15y it will help a lot.

[Derio]

Honestly I'm glad we have this many changes. Seems they almost learned from pld 3.x

[Esp]

Let's hope the changes continue so that we aren't having to wait until next expansion.

[Duskane]

Soul eater hp recovery out of grit be nice
but i would also like them to rework Blood price into a defense CD that restores decent amount of MP per hit instead of garbage amount SB blood price gives ,and not be grit exclusive of course

[Capn_Goggles]

This was change I expected the most. Really surprised it didn't happen. But yeah, that'd be great thing.

I mean, don't get me wrong the patch is a lot better than a few minor potency tweaks, but I'm honestly shocked they didn't address Living Dead and Souleater. Dark Arts is another strong point of contention, but I can at least understand that given how integrated it is with DRK's entire kit.

[Luin]

Eh. I wasn't expecting to get a free heal on every combo used. It'd make more sense on something you can hold / use tactically, like a DA Bloospiller or Dark Passenger.

Warrior has it on Path. It's not like a Clemency, it's like barely half a regen.

Soul eater hp recovery out of grit be nice
but i would also like them to rework Blood price into a defense CD that restores decent amount of MP per hit instead of garbage amount SB blood price gives ,and not be grit exclusive of course

On the subject of Blood Price, I just want the old HW MP regen for ARR/HW content. Right now it's terrible to run old content on DRK because it's currently balanced around the blood gain, which doesn't exist for sub-60 content.

For example why do we gain less than 50 blood with blood weapon, when not enhanced by delirium?

Because SE is apart of our combo, and you'll hit 2 SE during BW. So about 7GCDs and 4autoattacks, plus the blood from SE, should be at least 50 blood under BW.