Trying to understand the complaints about DRK

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Well, we are talking semantics more or less. You can say it was changed because people didn't like wasting DA on non-damage abilities - and that's not wrong... But, it's more logical to say it was a change for consistencies sake. It wasn't really a good design choice to have DA add potency on some abilities but not on others, SE realized that and fixed it.

And besides that, Dark Mind buff was a way to increase DRKs overall defensive kit - as most of the community had been requesting. If they decided to change their philosophy to "Dark Arts should always include a damage buff" then it doesn't make sense for DM to have a DA effect on it at all since it's not a damage ability.

Again, we are just looking at it from 2 different perspectives. The player base certainly seems to think DPS>all, but that doesn't mean it's a real consideration for the devs. (IE, they probably aren't concerned about our damage so much as making sure the tanks are competitive with one another overall)