Quote Originally Posted by TouchandFeel View Post
Even with having Delerium and/or Blood Weapon contribute to Darkside upkeep, it still leaves TBN->Dark Arts as the primary method of upkeep which is inherently problematic.
Buffs and their application need to be proactive and not reactive so that they stay squarely within the control of the player and are not at the whim of the content. TBN, and therefore Dark Arts, are reactive.
It's really best to just avoid tying Darkside's upkeep to Dark Arts.

If you want to make Darkside upkeep more interactive there are a myriad of other ways to do that which are based around proactive abilities, for example just off the top of my head ...
Edge/Shadow only add 10s to Darkside's time and now Blood Weapon adds 10s to Darkside's time per Weaponskill or Spell. Now Edge and Flood are more about keeping Darkside's time from draining too much until the next Blood Weapon where you can really fill it back up, plus some extra wiggle room for fight mechanics/downtime.
Not saying this is what should be done, just an example.
That sounds like a terrible system.
1. Where will I get the mana to use TBN?
2. This does not solve the biggest problem with the DRK. The fact it has no good game play. You just turned it already boring gameplay into a worse one. Plus we are already at the bottom of the tank dps list. Making it so we can not even use Darkside in a boss fight. You might as well removing DRK from tanking in this expansion.

I know this picture is a meme but this pretty much sums up DRK as a hole.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_CU03BW...g&name=900x900

At this point I am feeling they should go back to HW DRK. At less that one had interesting game play. Unlike right now where we focus on Souleater to build blood points. To use Bloodspiller. Which that all we do when our burst is on cooldown.

SB the started to make DRK into a Warrior Clone. Now in HW they have fully made us a Warrior clone. If I wanted to play Warrior. I would play Warrior and not Dark Knight. Paladin is not much better. Feels like it on it way of being a Warrior clone with spells.