Perma shelved my DRK: No role, no idenity, no lore, no worthwhile skills, no fun

[Xenosan]

I don't see DRK reworked beyond the change to Darkside & Dark Arts (and consequently Delirium & BW). Everything else that changed feels like parts of the overall changes they made to all tanks this expansion.

I like the Darkside change. They found a solution that removed DA spam (I didn't have a problem with personally) but let DRK better control when/where to dump additional potency. That's all good in my book. But how does Dark Mind survive a rework, how does Living Dead..

Disapointed they also didn't rethink the Blood Gauge. IMO DRK did not need this widget in SB, and they still do not need it in ShB. Blood actions (LS BS Q) could just be procs or stacks like Bard Repertoire stacks, placed inside the DS widget. DRK doesn't need to track their Blood accumulation the way a Warrior manages with Wrath gauge, I feel this is true even with the change to Delirium. Now DRK has 2 widgets that really don't make sense imo.

And then nerfing Salted Earth to be weaker than even Circle of Scorn just to make room for AD as an oGCD.. I guess because PLD got Atonement and DRK needed an equivalent? This exp's version of nerfing Blood Price just to add Quietus (which didn't restore MP even @4.0)