Now that Dark Arts is gone...

[Kaedan]

It would make sense that the dark arts "buffs" would be rolled into the skills.

From what we can see in the job actions trailer, there is a buff timer similar to NIN's Huton. Starts at 30 seconds and can be increased to 50 seconds with the 4th weaponskill in their new 4 skill combo. It's possible this is the new "Darkside". While that buff is up (the purple DRK face), it enhances your skills. Just a guess.

Also, for 50 blood, you can activate your Living Shadow. Bloodspiller doesn't seem to cost blood now anymore either.

[Chrono_Rising]

Also, for 50 blood, you can activate your Living Shadow. Bloodspiller doesn't seem to cost blood now anymore either.

Think this is an effect of delirium, which I have a feeling was reworked in some way. Won't really know until the 29th.

As for the original post, I hope we keep those hp drain effects make it into Shadowbringers without dark arts as well, but we won't know how things have been reworked, and we can see things not functioning in the way that we knew previously.

I hope that we will still be fast paced with the loss of dark arts, and I hope our HP drain effects make it to the expansion.

[EusisLandale]

It would make sense that the dark arts "buffs" would be rolled into the skills.

From what we can see in the job actions trailer, there is a buff timer similar to NIN's Huton. Starts at 30 seconds and can be increased to 50 seconds with the 4th weaponskill in their new 4 skill combo. It's possible this is the new "Darkside". While that buff is up (the purple DRK face), it enhances your skills. Just a guess.

Also, for 50 blood, you can activate your Living Shadow. Bloodspiller doesn't seem to cost blood now anymore either.

I'm not sure that 4th hit is a weaponskill, let alone part of a combo. You can see the MP drain animation play on each hit of the Souleater combo that comes after Blood Weapon, then nothing during that fourth hit, then the buff drop animation goes off which also hints at Blood Weapon being 10 seconds long now. They also make no attempt to use it the second time they go through the combo, while Fray throws it out immediately after the skill that starts up the new gauge part. And the last nail in the coffin is that it doesn't use the gold flash the weaponskills do, it uses the blue one that goes with spells and abilities.
The Bloodspiller bit, as already noted, might be due to Delirium which also costs nothing now. Incidentally both Bloodspillers and the Carve & Spit after have the MP drain animation on them as well.

[Kaedan]

I'm not sure that 4th hit is a weaponskill, let alone part of a combo. You can see the MP drain animation play on each hit of the Souleater combo that comes after Blood Weapon, then nothing during that fourth hit, then the buff drop animation goes off which also hints at Blood Weapon being 10 seconds long now. They also make no attempt to use it the second time they go through the combo, while Fray throws it out immediately after the skill that starts up the new gauge part. And the last nail in the coffin is that it doesn't use the gold flash the weaponskills do, it uses the blue one that goes with spells and abilities.
The Bloodspiller bit, as already noted, might be due to Delirium which also costs nothing now. Incidentally both Bloodspillers and the Carve & Spit after have the MP drain animation on them as well.

I'm just going off what one of the Media Tour attendees said about DRK having a new 4 skill combo. And the video matched that. I highly doubt they would put a skill that refreshes Darkside (or whatever the pink-purple buff is) as a standalone skill or oGCD.