This whole codswallop of DP being "clearly intended for AoE only" needs to go the way of the dinosaur. Circle of Scorn, Dragonfire Dive, Death Flare, Elixir Field... there is more precedent for off-GCD AoE abilities (i.e. not weaponskills/spells, GCDs) being useful in single target rotations (as well as not costing an arm and a leg) than there is for the reverse, so I submit that this whole idea of SE wanting AoE abilities to stay useless outside of AoE is faulty and we can move on now.

Just to get this thread back on track, a 10 potency buff to DP and its reintegration into our ST rotation will not fix DRK without similar changes to its mitigation and utility. This is if SE follows their current trend of just giving everybody everything that everybody has. If they'd like to deviate from that we'd need a significant buff in one particular department to push us well ahead in that one area and give us a niche.