The real reason DRK players are upset

[Sacrilegion]

We aren't even asking to go back to HW DRK, what we want is actual effort put into the kit. EW DRK is the most lazy, janky, and outright incompetent job design I have ever seen. They're just gluing random shit onto the class and calling it an improvement. They need to get off their dps jobs and start taking a look at DRK and take it fucking seriously. I don't care if it can do good in raids, but it's terrible every where else and to have to tolerate it anywhere is cruel and unusual punishment.

[Shin96]

We aren't even asking to go back to HW DRK

They should though. That was actually awesome and there was a lot of attention to detail, compared to now.

They've just been ruining tanking ever since. DRK has suffered the most by their DPS fetish. I don't trust they'll come up with anything original. If they do.. color me impressed.

[Ryaduera]

We aren't even asking to go back to HW DRK, what we want is actual effort put into the kit. EW DRK is the most lazy, janky, and outright incompetent job design I have ever seen. They're just gluing random shit onto the class and calling it an improvement. They need to get off their dps jobs and start taking a look at DRK and take it fucking seriously. I don't care if it can do good in raids, but it's terrible every where else and to have to tolerate it anywhere is cruel and unusual punishment.

This is exactly it. Every single time DRK had anything good, it was either taken away, or the other tanks got a better version. Justifying the lackluster and disjointed kit with "It puts out a high number" is lazy copium. We don't want to have HW DRK back, that was also djanky and disjointed, but it was coherent. HW DRK was complex and knowing how to manage it was a challenge at times, but it was imbalanced and sloppy. It was fun, but it was messy, and the kit made sense from a cohesion perspective. Now, it's just an incohesive kit of random things and high damage potencies with 1 basic combo and a "big hit" button (bloodspiller). We don't want HW DRK back, we just want something that's actually fun and makes sense. They could have fixed the broken mess it was instead of removing everything it had and giving it all to the other tanks as better, reworked versions.

Dark Arts > Dark Dance was a broken mess, evasion and parry buffs were pretty nutty. There was also the bug when used with awareness to remove crits would actually even further increase parry and evasion rate. This was bad, from a game health viewpoint.

Dark Arts > Abyssal Drake > Blood Price was an absolute mess of an AoE window, but now warrior can do that kind of healing anyway so why even bother taking that away? We had something nice, they said we didn't get to have it and gave it to WAR and that's what the problem is. Not that we don't have it anymore, but that we lost it for it to go to another tank.

[Sacrilegion]

We call that Bethesda fixing spellcrafting. Just remove it from the game. I wasn't around for HW, but looking at warrior with lifesteal, I could tell it was stolen from DRK. Now warrior using their class gauge to heal based on life missing and also the amount of gauge consumed would make more feasible sense.