Thread: Regarding no DRK adjustments in 4.1

Hihi, just started playing DRK again and would like to add some ideas.

Dark Passenger: I like that it's oGCD, but the cost is high. If it had a low cost it would be a dps gain even against a single target... so my request for this move is lower MP cost, or move Blind to the base attack while changing its Dark Arts boosted effect to a higher potency with no blind?

Bloodspiller: Can this be changed from GCD to oGCD please? It would help the job feel faster / flow better. But keep very low recast time on it so it can still be used as often, like how Dark Arts is an ability with 2 second recast.

Dark Mind: Increase the base move to the 30% mitigation, change its Dark Arts boosted effect to extend the mitigation to party at a lower percentage, sort of equivalent to Warrior's new Shake It Off effect.

Erm that's about all I can think of for now. I wouldn't mind Souleater HP recovery to be higher.

They also need to move TBN to around 62. It is a joke how WAR and PLDs can tank so much better than us in the leveling roulette.

Pretty sure the healer makes a sigh when he notices the tank is DRK instead of someone else. The only things that set us apart are the individual but it is not fair having to do accomplish more just so others can do comparably well with less know-how and effort.

Quietus should also be oGCD. In large pulls, we can't take its hard to weave in a Quietus while our gauge gain is going through the roof. I'd also like to see it cost reduced to 25 or 30.

Living dead has to be scrapped or remade. It is a joke. IMO, I'd like to see Living Dead as a self-resurrection that forces all targets to attack it for three seconds preventing your HP from dropping to zero. The healer would still need to top you though.

No mather what situation DADP is still dps loss u are bether off rotating DAQA > DADP in mass pull then using DP

Dark Passenger simply costs way too much MP to be useful.

DP is only useful under level 50 synched when you have too much MP to burn and your lack of mitigation until TBN benefits from blind

Although if the last boss is about to die then sure I'll weave in a DP if I have the mp to spare

Originally Posted by Mekhana

DP is only useful under level 50 synched when you have too much MP to burn and your lack of mitigation until TBN benefits from blind

Although if the last boss is about to die then sure I'll weave in a DP if I have the mp to spare

that's still too any "if's" for it to really be useful.

Originally Posted by Mekhana

DP is only useful under level 50 synched when you have too much MP to burn and your lack of mitigation until TBN benefits from blind

Although if the last boss is about to die then sure I'll weave in a DP if I have the mp to spare

Let's face it, DP is only relevant before Abysmal drain, just like unleash ...

When previously all theses spells had their role to play, now they don't.

240 potency ogcd that costs 4800 mp...it's not good to say the least...but it's most certainly not 100% useless. 240 potency and oGCD. It costs the same as two DA Quietus which is only 100 potency and on the GCD. I think the skill is a little underestimated. For DPS it is pretty powerful and it's oGCD so it won't cut into your combo. But the mp cost feels high, it's technically not but it also kinda is.

Dark Mind is definitely not useless, it has its place in every piece of savage content. But it has no place in dungeons. So I'd support a rework on it. Maybe just flat 10% mitigation but remove DA effect and leave it on a 60 second timer.

Originally Posted by RLofOBFL

240 potency ogcd that costs 4800 mp...it's not good to say the least...but it's most certainly not 100% useless. 240 potency and oGCD. It costs the same as two DA Quietus which is only 100 potency and on the GCD. I think the skill is a little underestimated. For DPS it is pretty powerful and it's oGCD so it won't cut into your combo. But the mp cost feels high, it's technically not but it also kinda is.

Dark Mind is definitely not useless, it has its place in every piece of savage content. But it has no place in dungeons. So I'd support a rework on it. Maybe just flat 10% mitigation but remove DA effect and leave it on a 60 second timer.

That's only relevant in situation where MP are never restrained, which are pretty rare due to the low MP return on BP now.

In usual situation, blowing MP on DA DP will restrain your AOE efficiency and at the same time, reduce the twin ressource gain on BP due to the blind, and might avoid your next TBN to terminate and waste it's cost.


The actual gameplay of DRK in dungeon is scaling too much out of the number of ennemies. Like every job "the more they are, the more damage I do by hitting more ennemies", but at the same time "the more they are, the more ressources I get from beeing hit" and since ressources are starved tight, the benefit of numerous ennemies is even more relevant.

At the same time, using TBN with too few ennemies and too much gear make it a waste, and either you don't use it with 4 or less ennemies alive, either you even avoid popping other cooldown because the EH you will gain from it might waste TBN altogether.


TL,DR : The DRK is too much dependant from the number of mobs presents, making small pulls, undergeared pulls, or non-confident healer pulls a big boredom of spamming siphon strike 2 part combo, and avoiding our new cooldown like plague.