To add a small bit to the salt pile...

When I first laid eyes on the RPR trailer they showed us back in the second EW keynote, my first thought was "Goddamnit. I wish this mechanic had been employed on DRK." And I shook my head. Tbh I've never really been a fan of transplanting mechanics from one job to another, but even before RPR was announced, I envisioned DRK having a sort of "superpowered" form. Now, this ain't to say it'd have been the exact same thing as RPR, that is, super speedy attacks with a reduced GCD... But the idea of say, being possessed by our dark side just felt right for DRK.

You see, when they showed us the job action trailer for 5.0 and it ended with the DRK summoning Fray to fight alongside us, I was very excited! It wasn't long, however, before I started asking questions... Was there going to be some sort of interaction with Fray? Can we influence how he fights in any way? Do we just summon them and they just do their thing? When the embargo lifted on the media tour and the info came flooding in, I was disappointed. You just hit a button and Fray showed up and just kinda did their thing. I thought "this is a dope concept but it just kinda looks like a really pretty DoT." :/ Sure enough, I eventually took DRK to 80 and pretty much confirmed my suspicions. The ability just felt... really passive, which, Idk about you, but "passive" ain't part of the DRK identity to me. Having a capstone ability that was essentially "hit the button and then you continue on doing your own thing while your simulacrum does its thing in the background" doesn't sit right with me.