Datamined DRK changes from final build

[InfiniDragon]

So...these changes are pretty much gutting the job.

They only get one exclusive physical mitigation cooldown (Shadow Wall) until 70, they removed Foresight which was actually used to pad their already lacking list of cooldowns leaving only Rampart (which is just their old Shadowskin with a worse animation), their damage and self-healing got nerfed, their Blood Gauge is the first thing they get after 60 and means pretty much nothing until 68 because to my knowledge it adds nothing except the use of Quietus and Bloodspiller, and using TBN is arguably a DPS loss.

I think we're in bad shape unless the new meta in raids doesn't require half as much mitigation CDs as we did previously (which I doubt because then all PLD's new toys wouldn't matter). If we want a chance at getting a reply, unfortunately we're going to have to get loud, obnoxious and meme worthy like the WHM crowd. Otherwise we may get put on the back burner like poor PLD did for an entire expansion.

[Shabaaz]

Scourge died for this crap.

How about some extra potency on Bloodspiller, SE?!?!

Sucks because my Static has a PLD already and i really wanted to play DRK. Really wanted to avoid playing warrior cause im not a huge fan of the beast gauge. Looks like my choice may have been made for me already.

EDIT: I think in terms of Mitigation, we should be ok. Dark Mind is still insanely powerful and rampart will cover what shadowskin did. Reprisal being on demand should help as well. Dark Dance was underrated mitigation, not great, but decent in its own right.

Blackest night *should* fill in a gap in our mitigation when it comes to physical, but you will need to time it correctly to get its full use. Just hope it takes priority over adlo aspected benefic and divine benison or we are in a world of hurt

[bswpayton]

this is really bad, I just dont understand how this is suppose to draw people to tanking

[Rhais]

DRK looks terrible in SB for multiple reasons and new stats or content isn't likely to change anything. We have enough information now that it isn't some big enigma.

[bswpayton]

its bad when a tank has more aoes than df cool downs , like this just doesnt make any sense at all to me the direction they are going in, it seems to me they are just making drk and whm the dungeon tank and healer only. Why does a tank have five aoes, but three df cool downs well four I guess if you count the blackestknight or whatever u call it

[Brannigan]

Why wouldn't you count TBN? It's one of your best abilities.

[Jhett_Magnum]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/f...326965/?page=1

[Mahono]

Did it even cross anyone's mind that the Soul Eater change from 100 to 10 is just one less 0 and that it might be a typo? I mean, it doesnt make any sense at all, then again what does when we look to DRK changes.. :thinking:

[Xenosan]

The Blood Price change and bonus Syphon MP-restore in Grit, first hotfix adjustment of SB?

Hopefully SEater@10% is a tooltip typo.

Because really, there is no point in it existing if otherwise. But its a believable nerf seeing how much they are trying to strip WAR/DRK of health restores. Devs took offense to the community going 'meh' over Clemency in 3.0, so no healz for you now!

Dark Passenger wut are they doing to you T^T

Hopefully DRK gets tinkered with, and more than just halfhearted potency adjustments. Some nuance please (and like.. change Delirium)

[Brannigan]

Because really, there is no point in it existing if otherwise. But its a believable nerf seeing how much they are trying to strip WAR/DRK of health restores. Devs took offense to the community going 'meh' over Clemency in 3.0, so no healz for you now!

Souleater is either a typo or a dumb change. However, I can't agree that there's some crusade against self healing. Warrior still has Equilibrium intact except for the weaker Berserk. It (appears to? this might be old) still have Storm's Path healing. It still has Inner Beast healing. It still has Thrill of Battle.
Bloodbath going away is honestly because it was a bad skill. It's trash in real content and decent in stuff that is so trivial you can pull 30 monsters and AOE them down (or in old content you're unsyncing). They had to remove some skills from everyone, and warrior had very few abilities that could even be considered mediocre, so Bloodbath didn't make the cut.