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

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If you squint and look really hard, you could consider Darkside vs TBN to be the original Dark Knight gimmick of burning HP for power. Since each Darkness attack you use is MP that isn't used for your shield, it's trading defence for power. But, if the shield breaks, you get a free dark attack, so effective use of the shield doesn't curb your DPS at all, rewarding good gameplay.

Personally, I don't think DRK and WAR are that similar, and people are just using the old argument of "it's too warrior-like, stop making us discount warrior" without really thinking about it. Are they similar? Yeah, but so is GNB and PLD. Are they different enough that they still feel fun to play? Yeah, I'd say so.

i consider GNB and PLD pretty diferent from each other, yes both have a 20% damage window but the way they have to manage that window is complety diferent and GNB combos are nothing like PLD ones while PLD have the requiem cast window GNB have his burst combo.

now WAR and DRK both have the same burst window with the same duration and recast, i grant that in terms of numbers are not exact but mechanically speacking are exactly the same, betwen that both jobs use they combos with DRK having only 1 and WAR haing 2, DRK have more oGCD usage that WAR but not much and blood weapon is comparable to infuriate with same recast but at least this ones are diferent enough, i will say both DRK and WAR are the same around a 70-75% of the gameplay wich is a lot compared to the old versions was 0% similar, so yeah any old DRK have strong WAR feelings in this version.