DRK Consolidated Feedback Thread

[Link594]

Saying it is completely useless is not saying it needs a buff. Unless you feel your only way to get a buff is through pointless and inaccurate exaggerations. Could it use a buff? Yeah, sure. Does it need one? No not really. It's far and away the lowest priority I'd say on Dark Knight changes. It has a number of viable uses, the only thing that has changed about it is that you can't just mindlessly push the button.

Do you not pull more than one pack at a time? Because with that you can easily end up with more MP than you can ever deal with through Dark Arts Abyssal Drain alone. You need to DADP to keep yourself from getting your MP capping and wasting away.
Do you just go ahead and Abyssal Drain at a mere two targets? Because at that point your MP is better served on DADP when it's up, barring the need to DA C&S or TBN, after all that, then yes go ahead and spend on DA single target attacks.
"Destroying your mana pool" is not a bad thing, if you do it in the right situations. These situations come up quite regularly. It's simply a matter of balancing cost, time, and generation. No, don't Dark Passenger at 1, 3-4 ever, or 5+ without a Blood buff running. Do Dark Passenger responsibly at 2 or 5+ with a Blood buff running.

Actually, it seems DA-DP only falls behind at 6 targets, 7 targets if you have slashing. You give up a little more MP, but gain some back with the Souleater combo that you wouldn't get a chance to do with Abyssal Drain, after the DA-DP, you can begin to spam Abyssal Drain.

So I'll concede the Dark Passenger point to you, seems I was wrong. Even when it starts to fall behind, the amount of MP you get back thru Quietus or Blood Weapon/Price seems to justify the use.

So the ability goes from something that always sees use, to something that only sees use in AoE with DA.

Still think my other points about my other suggestions stand though, and personally I'd rather have Dark Passenger be something that sees use even with one target (my opinnion). So I'd still like it to be free, but you are definitely right in having the DA buff built in is asking for too much.

Could be my math is wrong, but 240 (DA-DP) * 6 targets +770 Souleater potency over 3 GCDS with Slashing comes out at 2210, while 120 (Abyssal Drain) * 6 targets * 3 GCDS comes out at 2160 still falling behind.

At 7, its 2450 for DA-DP with Souleater combo vs 2520 for 3 Abyssal Drains.