Quote Originally Posted by Garlan View Post
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The developers are the ones who took away everything that DRK was and gave nearly nothing back in return. Do not defend their actions, or try to rewrite reality. They were the ones to have made Dark Arts as spammy as it was because there was no play testing nor balancing for just how damning the SB changes were to DRK's mana economy.

It's entirely within their ability to do anything to appease 3.x and beyond DRK players. They instead chose to put those resources into other jobs.