DRK Consolidated Feedback Thread

[SyzzleSpark]

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I don't recall ever suggesting a buff to DRK based on its performance in farm parties or speed clears.

Sarcasm this poorly veiled only has any impact against an argument that actually happened. What I have stated many times is that the job is too over-reliant on TBN, an ability that by design is intended to stop mitigating damage as quickly as possible (so as to make it resource efficient, or close to it), has no cooldowns that last longer than 10 seconds, and has the most healing intensive invuln combined with the worst personal healing sustain. If we're talking about farming/speed clears, then what DRK actually needs is higher DPS and for the cooldown that constitutes the vast majority of its personal mitigation (TBN) to not be a DPS loss. In fact I'm hard pressed to think of a reason to take a DRK into an optimized parse run.

When talking about prog (and the more risk-averse playstyle that people will adopt at that time), I believe a WAR/PLD comp is still the safest option. DRK just doesn't bring anything significant to the table unless SE props it up with magic-packed raids, which is one of the complaints this thread is addressing.

You quoting my statement about IB as if it is something meme-worthy is really telling; IB really IS one of the most powerful abilities in the game, for what it does, and I'd be hard pressed to find anyone that progress-raids in this game that disagrees. Just because one waits until they're 10-20 ilvls overgeared before they start clearing and farming content doesn't make an ability like IB objectively useless.