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

[Rithy255]

The thing I don't get is that all of the changes basically align with shit I read on these very forums two years ago.

Bloodspiller spam is gone, thats what made people compare it to WAR. If using 3 things after a buff in a burst window makes it a WAR clone then GNB and PLD are also wars and your inner release is replaced with No Mercy/Fight or Flight.
This is the first expansion in a long time DRK has not recieved a new oGCD, and instead it got 4 new GCDs.
Infact the ammount of weaving has gone down, which was also complained about a lot in early endwalker, BW Delrium merger and plunge to this new chaos control dash are how they did it.

I'll even go so far to say it would not surprise me if it gets a trait DRK gets, or even the ability of the new Shadowwall directly gives DRK some sort of regen or healing, as that was the last major thing people bitched about early endwalker.

"4 new gcds"
When in reality it's gotten 1, that you press every 120, these different GCD's don't matter if A: You use it once per minute/2minute & its just a CD gcd or B: One that just cycles into another GCD, It's just visually a difference it plays a cool animation it doesn't actually effect gameplay.

This is my issue when I say I want more gcds, I don't mean meaningless buttons or visual gcd's I want it's rotation to be different then 1, 2, 3 + spend gauge & press 120/60 burst buttons, which every tank falls under.

[Absurdity]

"4 new gcds"
When in reality it's gotten 1, that you press every 120, these different GCD's don't matter if A: You use it once per minute/2minute & its just a CD gcd or B: One that just cycles into another GCD, It's just visually a difference it plays a cool animation it doesn't actually effect gameplay.

This is my issue when I say I want more gcds, I don't mean meaningless buttons or visual gcd's I want it's rotation to be different then 1, 2, 3 + spend gauge & press 120/60 burst buttons, which every tank falls under.

That unfortunately seems to be SE's current design philosophy for tanks in general, all flash and zero substance. Just throw some new flashy visual effects and animations onto the same stale "press button to do big numbers, X seconds cooldown"-skills they've been shoveling into our troughs for the easily impressed to gobble up, partially since Shadowbringers but certainly since Endwalker.

And judging by all the reactions of talking heads on Youtube and Twitch it clearly still works, because they're all acting like more VFX clutter with the bare minimum of actual player input is somehow the best thing since sliced bread.