Improving Dark Knight: A Wishlist of Adjustments

[Ignimortis]

We already generate enough Darkside to supply a second theoretical DRK indefinitely.
I'd rather have Shadowbringer be a non-CD GCD that costs 15 seconds of Darkside to use, for example, and maybe had a pot 600 cure on it, or a, say, 1k MP restore.

[Shurrikhan]

We already generate enough Darkside to supply a second theoretical DRK indefinitely.

This. If Darkside's going to take up a gauge, it should actually be worth keeping on one's screen. (Heck, I hide in my bottom-right corner where it doesn't obstruct my view since Dark Arts procs are all I'd need it for, and the ping sound from filling/proccing Dark Arts is plenty audible already.)

[DustyBlue]

We already generate enough Darkside to supply a second theoretical DRK indefinitely.
I'd rather have Shadowbringer be a non-CD GCD that costs 15 seconds of Darkside to use, for example, and maybe had a pot 600 cure on it, or a, say, 1k MP restore.

Using Darkside timer has a consumable resource is actually a brilliant idea... We have so much of it so easily, might as well add some more proactive management of it. And classic FFs had dark knight consume HP for a big AoE attack (Darkness or in FFXIV's case Flood of Shadow), doing HP sacrifice on a tank in an MMO is obviously not the wisest idea, but sacrificing timer and attempting to lower the number without it counting down to 0 and losing it completely, that does provide an equivalent sort of feeling to the classic sacrifice mechanic of dark knight.

Alternatively, refreshing Darkside can add a few extra seconds to Living Shadow, to an upper limit of 60 seconds maybe. And a defensive use of blood gauge would be nice. It's weird how paladin is the only tank that uses its tank gauge for tanking.