Quote Originally Posted by DRKoftheAzure View Post
I honestly believe that with Dark Arts, the devs should have made it more like Hissatsu: Kaiten(before they deleted it from the game) where it boosted the damage of your next weaponskill or ability by 50% during Stormblood, but that will never happen now since they need to have it tied to a gauge that might as well not even exist as it is UI bloat, and I honestly think that is worse than hotbar/button bloat, especially if said UI bloat caused hotbar/button bloat to begin with...
??? Dark Arts isn't tied to Darkside, though. Its indicator is tied to the Blood Gauge, and only for visual convenience. It also has no button; it's purely a TBN secondary frequency-constraining mechanic.

Moreover, if you made a percentile bonus like Hissatsu: Kaiten, then it'd have to be tuned as to only be useful around our most damaging weaponskills, Bloodspiller/Quietus, which means it'd see use only...
[A] as a brainless bundle (always hit DA before Bloodspiller), and
[B] very infrequently outside of the likes of a Delirium-based Bloodspiller-spam. (The natural frequency of Bloodspiller is just 2 in 17 GCDs.)