Should Dark Arts Come Back in 6.0? If so, What Should the Skill Do?

[Lyth]

There are many things that require effort, but are neither skillful nor enjoyable.

Faster button presses don't really have anything to do with Dark Arts vs. Edge/Flood. All you need to do is to bring back Blood Weapon's speed boost and make it baseline. That and to bring back a few of Heavensward's revenge proc actions.

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I think this is a really good way to make tank gameplay stand out from melee dps. The problem is that the game designers seem to be afraid of revenge style abilities leading to big differences between MT/OT play.

[Ultimatecalibur]

I think this is a really good way to make tank gameplay stand out from melee dps. The problem is that the game designers seem to be afraid of revenge style abilities leading to big differences between MT/OT play.

Which is why I'd expect them to link those abilities to the protection cooldowns (The Blackest Night, Cover/Intervention, Nascent Flash and Heart of Stone) and the short mitigation cooldowns (TBN, Sheltron, Raw Intuition and HoS). Add in something like Chelonian Gate's "target takes at least 30% their max hp in damage" transformation trigger and you end up with both the MTs and OTs actively protecting themselves and others for increased dps while trying to avoid stacking to much mitigation.