So Drks getting rekt 3 expacs in a row great job devs

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

Would you be willing to elaborate on this? It just feels like such a nothingy button to me.

A) It's an extremely thematic button for the job, considering the DRK story. Same reason why I quite enjoy TBN even beyond its gameplay purposes.
B) Compared to just any random DoT skill where you get a brief animation and then the effect of your DoT is basically invisible unless you're solo and/or parsing, it feels much more impactful to use since it attacks and moves on the battlefield, and its attacks appear as flying text adding to the impact. Also speaking as a former game dev, visual impact of a skill/move/ablity/etc does positively/negatively change how people perceive something. It's why hitstun is so nice in games and games that lack it often have people asking to have it added back in. Or even take FF14, where people laughed at Expedience because of how lackluster it was shown isually when the effect on it before nerf was broken.

Could it have a more direct impact on the kit? Sure. But LS is quite a unique skill in execution compared to traditional DoTs and thematics, it's not that much of a stretch for why people like it. Tons of more casual players go nuts over the huge powerful summons of Bahamut/Phoenix despite them also being effectively glorified DoTs.