DRK Consolidated Feedback Thread

[SyzzleSpark]

The Blackest Night is fine as it is. Currently the Bloodspiller you gain from it is (in terms of dps)worth exactly the same as an extra Dark Arts, this is intended and makes sense.

Your PPGCD actually falls more often than not when you do this, the math on this is all over the place.

No one is saying it isn't powerful, or that the active playstyle it enables isn't rewarding. But the resource conversion is imbalanced. It was balanced, briefly, between 4.01 and 4.05, and then it was back to being a small loss.

As you point out, its a hassle to use on AAs, which is where it gets used quite often because it is frequently the only form of mitigation during those periods since DRK lacks any other form of high uptime mitigation that isn't better served being used against burst damage/TBs. This is the whole reason why it should be an actual gain, instead of a loss, because if you want mitigation you can and will be using it frequently against AAs, where it may or may not pay off - so its price/payoff ratio could be adjusted. It totally is not the same as an "extra Dark Arts". 50 Blood does not equal 2400 mana in potency.

If you don't believe me, just take a gander at flogs; in optimized runs with a DRK in the party, said DRKs are typically using TBN less than 10 times in as many minutes. I've seen some 9-10 minute encounters with only 5-6 casts of TBN. Basically if you're looking to optimize you actually wanna use it as little as possible - this is something that I think is silly and ought to be fixed. Its part of our core cooldown suite, it isn't some bonus extra safety net for prog or screw-ups like IB or Clemency. Saying you gain mitigation from it without a DPS loss is misinformation.