Why is Quietus so weak?

[Xenosan]

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My impression is more that Quietus was intentional: to replace old Blood Price ( like, as if they knew what they were doing ) - They wanted old BP dead, so use Quietus and Delirum to reverse engineer the kit. Then it snowballs into 'Oh let's double Grit'd Siphon MP restore because BP is shite now for MP and double BP+DEL duration because AOE DRK will need the Blood.'

Ironically - Quietus, like old Blood Price, still scales with the amount of enemies fought - DRK just doesn't technically have to tank them. So they really still failed at their base intent even with all the back bending that went into it.

I think a good start for improvements would be Enhanced Unleash to proc from all spells, and do more damage or restore MP - that way DRK has a baseline AOE rotation to start with, and synergies with later actions. Then ffs with Blood Price make some changes. and lastly imo the +10 Blood from Souleater should be taken off and sprinkled on other oGCDs so DRK has consistent blood generation regardless of which GCD actions they're using.

But now I'm in the rabbit hole !_!