Question for fellow DRK's who have played its new Shb iteration.

[Valic]

What I like about new DRK is, that a lot of the little tweaks we had in SB were removed:

-SE now heals in tank stance.
-Bloodgain is not high in aoe and low in single target anymore.
-Blood Weapon is not tied to off stance.
-Blood Price were removed.
-Sole Survivor were removed.
-We finally got a raid wide mitigation.
-C&S/Dark Passenger double weave were removed.

What I dislike is the stuff that basically everyone is saying.

-MP reg is really low, therefore we are doing less ogcd's and the jobs feels less busy/slower than before.
-Quietus is mediocre at best.
-Dark Mind and Dark Missionary are magic only/pretty weak.
-Abyssal Drain still has the "Top in aoe/flop in single target" thing.
-Living Dead still is "meh".

Most issues I have atm are with TBN and Living Shadow.

TBN is now a 500 potency loose if it not breaks, and 0 potency gain if it does. Therefore and because of it's high MP costs we need to be way more carefully to pop it than we were before.

Living Shadow doesn't add anything special/interesting to our playstyle, and is just a 2min dmg cd. (to be fair, so it is with the lv 80 skills of WAR's and GUN's too)

TBN, LD will never change, and that's okay, it's unique. Could make it so you only need to be healed for half your hp maybe but anyways.... Technically GNB's 80 is just an upgraded version of the same ability they get at level 18 that perfectly weaves between GCD's. DRK's.... just doesn't make sense. Quietus doesn't make sense to use for aoe'ing either and feels awkward to pop at points. MAJOR agree on your stance with TBN, I feel that way too. you should NEVER feel afraid to save your teammate because you think you'll be giving up your buff or dps. It jut feels like a game of chance sometimes.

[Kreyd]

Technically GNB's 80 is just an upgraded version of the same ability they get at level 18 that perfectly weaves between GCD's. DRK's.... just doesn't make sense. Quietus doesn't make sense to use for aoe'ing either and feels awkward to pop at points. <AJOR agree on your stance with TBN, I feel that way too. you should NEVER feel afraid to save your teammate because you think you'll be giving up your buff or dps. It jut feels like a game of chance sometimes.

Quietus really needs mp regain on every enemy hit instead of one, if they thought it was OP then just make it "reduced MP gained on 3rd,4th, enemy" etc. It's just so bad right now to use because it literally doesn't do anything for you, besides damage of course.

This.

Sorry but one thing in particular in your lists really glared out to me. Why are you glad that Sole Survivor is gone? You didn't even get anything to replace it. Having it literally only helped you, it was even buffed to still be effective in boss fights.

I dunno...It was a straight gain, but it just somehow tweaked me, that we could never use it to it's full potential in a boss fight and it was just a press on demand like bloodprice. I always thought it would've been cool as an "Places an debuff on an enemy. Everyone hitting that enemy gets HP/MP back." ability. But in the end I just didn't care for it anymore.

[Tranquilmelody7]

TBN, LD will never change, and that's okay, it's unique. Could make it so you only need to be healed for half your hp maybe but anyways....

Just tweak living dead so Full MP is required to remove the debuff.

That way we can manage the death debuff on our own, while healers will still have to keep us alive afterwards.

[Valic]

Just tweak living dead so Full MP is required to remove the debuff.

That way we can manage the death debuff on our own, while healers will still have to keep us alive afterwards.

Can you imagine being so low on MP and using this and actually having some way to get back to full MP right now? Our MP regain is pretty slow atm so, that'd basically count us out 95% of the time.