to Future DRK Players

[Hierro]

I have a really hard time taking people seriously when they claim to have loved Stormblood DRK back in the day, because a lot of those exact same posters were campaigning to get the job changed during 4.x.
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And I absolutely, definitely don't want to go back to Stormblood's Delirium, which was the most awkward, most ineffectual 'burst' window of all time. You do not burst by increasing the duration on something. You burst by increasing the potency. Whoever designed that was delirious.

I loved Stormblood DRK, like my own son! I still maintain the job was fine back then. Plunge was the anti-knock back needed. For all encounters designed, including ucob and uwu, DRK's lack of a raid-wide mitigation CD like dark missionary did not adversely affect a party's success. Still, arm's length and dark missionary are welcomed additions.

DRK wasn't meant to burst with delirium. It was meant to go fast! Don't you like Sonic games, old friend? Don't you like going fast? YOU GOTTA GO FAST!

[KatsuraJun]

I loved Stormblood DRK, like my own son! I still maintain the job was fine back then. Plunge was the anti-knock back needed. For all encounters designed, including ucob and uwu, DRK's lack of a raid-wide mitigation CD like dark missionary did not adversely affect a party's success. Still, arm's length and dark missionary are welcomed additions.

DRK wasn't meant to burst with delirium. It was meant to go fast! Don't you like Sonic games, old friend? Don't you like going fast? YOU GOTTA GO FAST!

Agreed. I don't know where the "people who want 4.x DRK used to complain about it" nonsense comes from - I always loved the 4.x design. I can accept it was an unpopular opinion, but try to dismiss people who legitimately liked that iteration as being hypocritical or wishy-washy is nonsense.

[Bhearil]

Agreed. I don't know where the "people who want 4.x DRK used to complain about it" nonsense comes from - I always loved the 4.x design. I can accept it was an unpopular opinion, but try to dismiss people who legitimately liked that iteration as being hypocritical or wishy-washy is nonsense.

Come on, every version of DRK is/was fun in its own way, but few people will say that they enjoying spamming Dark Arts like a madman because you drowned in MP back then and that it merely became a flat 140 potency buff besides Abyssal Drain lifesteal (AOEing in 4.0 was much more fun though).

My beef with 5.0 DRK is the lesser copy paste skills from WAR and the boredom of Souleater combo spam that makes up for 70% of your atacks