Quote Originally Posted by DRKoftheAzure View Post
Yeah, I couldn't tell you why I'm not counting Edge/Flood of Darkness/Shadow, as for Salted Earth it's classified as a buff rather than an actual DoT, plus it doesn't any initial damage when you use it... as for excluding Delirium(A.K.A. discount Inner Release) it's buff that lets you spam one button 5 times which is more just as boring as spamming your 1 single target combo for 90 seconds, Blood Weapon just sucks to use now, No Mercy is a decent buff but does not count as an actual attack, and Bloodfest just gives you 2 more cartridges and also does not count as an actual attack...


Also people Are going to confuse Bow Shock with Bloodspiller now, and same with Salted Earth and Souleater(or Square-Enix)... Suck to be the new people who are trying to learn the terminology...
I will say that you are the first person I've ever seen referring to SE as a buff rather than a DOT, but you do you on that.

Regarding buffs in general, I mean I don't really get why you'd feel that a offensive buff doesn't equate to an offensive based CD. Additionally just because you feel that it, "sucks to use" doesn't detract from the fact that you are still gonna use it. Especially when you are hitting these "buffs" while attacking, which was my point about your original statement that GNB feels faster cuz you are hitting more offensive based cooldowns. Buffs or Offensive based cooldowns (if you are really wanting to separate the distinction for whatever reason) you are still pressing just a little less than the same number of buttons for Gnb per min as you are for Drk. To me they feel about the same speed as the 1 button every other min isn't really noticable.

On another note, while I do feel that Delirium's current form was a lazy and uninspired choice, I can't help but comment how all 4 tanks have a point or 2 where they are just spamming the same button 5+ times per min due to a buff or some skill letting them do so. Holy Spirit, Fell Cleave, and even Atonement and Continuation fits this. I actually think that you're having to hit these even more per minute than HS/FC. Yet it seems only Drk is really drawing people's ire about doing so.