Getting refused to EX groups as a DRK

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It's actually the other way around. You yourself have apparently leveled a Drk but you clearly haven't mastered it yet since you're saying you should never have Dark Side off and you're complaining about the MP cost to turn on Grit. There are times, when you're trying to fill your mp bar back up to full super quick, when you SHOULD turn off Dark Side. By turning off Dark Side + Grit and Using blood weapon (and shadow wall should you need to soak damage) you'll recover your MP back up to full within half the time it takes for blood weapon to be fully used up. Once it's back up to full, you can toggle DS back on, use a high MP draining DA combo, turn DA back off, finish topping off your MP (which will happen just before blood weapon expires) then hop back into Grit and turn back on DS.

Um... no. Never, under any circumstance, should you actually be turning Darkside off while actively in combat (although, absolutely feel free to turn it off during phase changes and invulnerable periods, obviously). That's a lot of work to do for a lot of reduced efficiency (and god, that blood weapon is going to wreck your TP and you're not even getting damage for it!). Darkside is so powerful and so important that you absolutely will not be making those gains back if you turn it off. Learn to manage your MP without turning it off.

Is this a complicated move? Sure. Is it complicated for me? No. Why? Because I don't use a controller, I assign every ability I have to my keyboard, and I've practiced and gotten used to how to easily refill my MP back up to fill with ease while not having to sacrifice any DPS.

Except you are sacrificing your DPS. And congratulations for setting up your basic layout like every single other PC player does... I guess? I'm not sure what point you're trying to make with that. Does anyone actually have trouble hitting their keys?

And ever since the expansion's launch, the only time a Warrior has surpassed me in DPS while we were both tanking is when they spike their dps with their offensive buffs/fell cleave/etc but once the spike ends their dps just goes back down and I surpass them again within seconds.

So you don't hang out with many good WARs. That's not unreasonable. And I out DPS DPS players all the time, even in tank stance, and by significantly large margins. That means nothing other than the fact that we run into a lot of bad players.

Just practice more with Drk and stop being so biased because every time you compare the two you list off everything that a War can do in depth but hardly touch on anything (if at all) that the Drk can do. It's YOU that's not giving Drk the credit deserves because you're spoiled with an easier rotation with Warrior.

...except for the fact that the main reason that I play and enjoy DRK as a class is because its rotation is harder than WAR's. If the issue were with the complexity of DRK's rotation, I would have been saying that. But it's not, the issue is with the results.

It's the same song and dance that it was when 2.0 came out. People complained that Warrior wasn't nearly as good as the Pld or couldn't do as much damage as a Pld because people weren't used to it yet.

...except WAR wasn't as good as PLD. By an extremely significant margin. And they basically remade WAR because the disparity between the classes was so huge.


Also, for future reference, paragraph spacing and post formatting are important concepts. Please learn them.

People actually tank A1 in Grit?

Sorry, not MLG enough to know the fight on day 1.