Quote Originally Posted by Lyth View Post
480 MP is 1/5 of a Dark Arts use. It's also the amount of MP restored by a tick of Blood Weapon, and 4x the amount of MP restored by Blood Price. In short, it's not free. Likewise, Tomahawk costs the same amount of TP as Overpower, and Shield Lob and Shield Bash cost double the amount of TP as Total Eclipse. So this infinite supply of axes and shields that you can throw from range isn't free, either.

I think it's a similar question to whether Scathe should be free on BLM. You're taking a potency loss anyways for using it. But there's a psychological effect there as well. You're not supposed to feel good about moving on a caster. Likewise, you're not supposed to feel comfortable moving off the boss on a tank or melee. You might see players toss out one or two Tomahawks when they're doing a mechanic off the boss, but they certainly aren't going to burn their TP dry before they get back.

Either way, I don't think we can easily predict what's going to happen without more information. I think WAR would benefit from operating on a single resource system and not using MP at all, but I could see PLD following a similar route to DRK, given that it already uses a two resource system.
You didn't read carefully enough - nowhere did I state that Unmend was free. I said "chance of free Unleash when using Unmend". The other instance where I said "free" was when I considered a possible nerf for unrestricted AOE usage that previously cost TP.

What I implied is that DRK, unlike WAR and PLD, realistically won't ever run out of resources if you play your cooldowns correctly in AOE situations - "realistically" implying that under more ideal circumstances everything will die BEFORE you run out of Blood for Quietus, Bloodweapon, Sole Survivor MP AND MP for TBN; I've had yet to reach such a moment in any AOE situation throughout playing DRK. DRK fuels his own ranged attacks and AOE without the aid of other party members, PLD and WAR inevitably will run out of TP when using their 120TP weaponskills too much. So DRK is "free" in the sense that it is self-fueling.

Also Total Eclipse is 110TP. <.<

Scathe "feel" analogy is a bit far fetched but I get your point. Getting rid of resource cost of Tomahawk / Shield Lob was more about just baseline removal of resource costs for weaponskills, given the price is the combobreak, a gcd and low potency. Further attaching a cost to them does nothing other than double downing on "avoid using this" just for the sake of having a cost.