Quote Originally Posted by SyzzleSpark View Post
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.
Do you have a better reason why they nerfed it then? And the ones you named don't have the MP cost of 2400.