Quote Originally Posted by ArianeEwah View Post
All aesthetic and design decisions aside, have you even seen the opener?

I've created a little picture to visualise it (order of oGCDs for optimal play might differ):


Your very first 9 GCDs are filled with oGCDs, there is no space to weave even 1 mitigation CD!... well, maybe 1 if you can use Delirium pre-pull, but that's it. If you thought GNB was loaded, that's a joke compared to this opener!
The problem of clogged oGCDs and too few GCDs really are the same problem, and can both be fixed by simply making the follow-up attacks GCD with a timer, like Blast Arrow.

Make Salt & Darkness a GCD, make Shadowbringer a follow up to Living Shadow and a GCD, with adjustments to potencies and maybe some mana or blood generation. Maybe Carve & Spit and Abyssal Drain could follow a similar pattern.

This would give us some new GCDs to break up Souleater and Bloodspiller, while also freeing up oGCD space for what we need as a tank: defensive skills. oGCD would still feel busy with Edge and Flood.

It would give DRK an identity as the "oGCD into GCD" tank, as others have mentioned. Especially if Delirium is changed to give 50 blood after each EoS or FoS, with 3 stacks.