Salted Earth and other questionable changes.

[Danelo]

Bruh, I could go on and list a whole plethora of reasons as to why my statement is true. Sadly, that post got deleted in a censored thread when the comparison was made.

That's too bad.

I would love to have read that. Would you type that out for me again? 2 pages minimum, MLA format if possible, and works cited included. I'll be sure not to curse in the next post.

Lastly, don't bro me, cause you don't know me.

[Hierro]

Lastly, don't bro me, cause you don't know me.

My bad, bro.

[Danelo]

My bad, bro.

I expect better next time...

[Valic]

‘It’s a rare occurrence, like a double rainbow. Or like someone on the internet saying, You know what? You’ve convinced me I was wrong.’ – Michael, ‘The Good Place’

I feel like the general stance for everyone here is "We want DRK to be good, but we also want it to be fun/different than the others". At least, I want to believe that's everyone's stance on this, whether they like ShB's DRK or not now, I think it still stands as the purpose/goal of this thread and most of it's comments regarding DRK's changes.

[Reynhart]

Yeah right. I can guarantee you if DRK was in the DPS meta, no one would complain. HW DRK was super clunky and riddled with design flaws, but everything was forgiven because it was given a fixed slot in speed runs.

I'd say that it probably had more to do with it being mechanically interesting to play...but we might have the answer on that in a few months, since DRK is apparently very well placed on the DPS scale.

[Nedkel]

They had to nerf something in order to give something cool in 70-80 bracket.

[Danelo]

They had to nerf something in order to give something cool in 70-80 bracket.

I really wish they would have repurposed salted earth into a potent single target dot at the very least. Its useless compared to what it was. At least that would give use something to do.

Side note - does the accumulation of gauge seem off to anyone else? Outside of BW, on a 60 sec recast, it does seem odd that WAR gets more than enough gauge to fire off a fell cleave every two of their 1-2-4 or 1-2-3 combos but DRK needs to do three combos in order to get off a blood spiller. Yes, I know they have onslaught and upheaval for gauge spenders too but but it seems offset. At least allow DRK to break even and make souleater give 25 Gauge instead of 20. At least that would break up some of the monotony.

[Reynhart]

Side note - does the accumulation of gauge seem off to anyone else? Outside of BW, on a 60 sec recast, it does seem odd that WAR gets more than enough gauge to fire off a fell cleave every two of their 1-2-4 or 1-2-3 combos but DRK needs to do three combos in order to get off a blood spiller.

Those combo also make us build MP (That also regenerates over time), that we use for other big hits not that low compared to Fell Cleave, so I thinks it's appropriate.

[Derio]

Might as well just deleted Salted Earth and put that potency somewhere else. Same for Abyssal Drain as it being put on such a long timer.

I am also upset that TBN no longer provides blood but instead Dark Arts.