Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
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I agree. But here's the thing, and I think it's a lot simpler than that o:

They condensed C&S with Abyssal Drain bc as you said, we didn't do other skills all that often. No, not even Dark Passenger, quit lying, we only ever used that once a blue moon >w>;;

But as I said, they're not the same. They are only similar in one aspect, they give MP. They weren't even both OGCDs, bc Abyssal Drain wasn't.

The answer was simple. Just make an equivalent. They made it for every other job (Shoha II, Ikishoten, Foul...). Why not for DRK? Especially now that we have Shadowbringer. Like, they could have just taken advantage of old discarded animations and reworked them into new stuff.
But no, they decided to do this, which ended up gimping DRK's sustainability.

The rest about Foul and Xenoglossy, that's a problem with BLM itself and should be addressed, sure... but for what's worth, for this conversation, it's important to note that they did make skills for stuff similar to our single-target combo but for AoE. So it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility.

What we got tho isn't it.