Quote Originally Posted by Jandor View Post
Most people prefer HW DRK over StB DRK, but ShB DRK is even less popular than either as far as I can tell.

People talked about salvaging StB DRK, they talk about starting over with ShB DRK.
HW DRK was still the top the mountain. Managing MP, cooldowns, your DoT (I miss you Scourge...), your enmity combo and DPS combo (I miss having a 2nd combo...), and the absolute joy felt when you pulled it all off. SB DRK was a travesty that spat on all that was DRK, and I'm glad that evil monstrosity is dead. I much prefer ShB, which while not near the glory of HW, is still infinitely better than SB DRK (which made me quit playing DRK). In general I despise SB because it destroyed DRK and MNK, and SCH barely survived launch for me (lack of Energy Drain and the MP costs made it a real struggle).

By the way, I only say SB destroyed MNK because it was basically going from GL3 to no GL stacks in terms of how slow your GCDs became while under Riddle of Fire, and that was supposed to be your BURST window. It'd be like RDM having a burst window where they lose double cast and have to just slowly charge up the spells. That isn't fun, that's pure annoyance.