Kind of boring

[MOZZYSTAR]

I've been levelling DRK for a while, now at level 64 now. I'm finding DRK to be very boring at a higher level when it felt more engaging before yesterday. It's almost fighting-in-Satasha boring. Granted, I'm still trying to figure it out, but man... First impressions are not great.

[Lannybaby]

While I personally share the same opinion, I see mass ton of people questing as a drk. They could just be role playing, though. I'm going into ShB content as a dragoon, though. It's play style is largely unchanged with some new toys to play with. I'm just glad they were spared a bad rework.

[Valic]

There's a lot of people who agree that it's play style has no synergy now and is quite boring to play. Check the other threads here, especially about the one titled how DRK is awful. Most people doing it had it already to go for ShB and wanna see any easter eggs for being "The Warrior of Darkness". That or maybe hopes that they'll understand DRK better and it will be more when they actually hit cap. I'm at the latter right now myself, I had it ready, geared, leveled, and I'm hoping by being 80 it changes how it feels to play but... it's looking rather bleak. Prolly gonna max it for MSQ sake and then main GNB.

[LalafellDown]

You have to do the AOE combos. It’s so much fun when you can pull more adds than before and burn them down with AOE combos. I love this new DRK. 4.0 was so slow and boring. 5.0 is really fast.

[shao32]

You have to do the AOE combos. It’s so much fun when you can pull more adds than before and burn them down with AOE combos. I love this new DRK. 4.0 was so slow and boring. 5.0 is really fast.

4.0 slow? Since when? I think you didn't know how tho play DRK back in SB, no offense.

[Agner]

No joke. Isn't it objective fact that ShB DRK has less APM than SB DRK?

[TheForce]

You have to do the AOE combos. It’s so much fun when you can pull more adds than before and burn them down with AOE combos. I love this new DRK. 4.0 was so slow and boring. 5.0 is really fast.

You got to be trolling. This is just objectively false.

[IBLazORI]

You have to do the AOE combos. It’s so much fun when you can pull more adds than before and burn them down with AOE combos. I love this new DRK. 4.0 was so slow and boring. 5.0 is really fast.

How did you come to that conclusion? I mained dark because it WAS fast and exciting. I personally liked Dark arts and MP management, always had me engaged and active in the job.

[Seraphor]

DRK only had more APM in SB because 40% of it was Dark Arts...

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

DRK only had more APM in SB because 40% of it was Dark Arts...

Not quite. We have our DA within Edge of Shadow now as our primary MP spender, just with higher cost and lower resource gain overall. Would not even be a stretch to say its ok.

The elephant in the room of issues is the complete removal of Blood Weapon's speed + Delirium's interaction to extend it. I played Dark Knight for this primarily; it is what made DRK feel different than the other two tanks and no amount of SKS stat stacking will get us close to that 2.25s GCD and below - even worse, it would not even speed up AOE gcd actions since they are spells (Bloodweapon + Abyssal Drain was a blast).

But now? Slow like a WAR, same spam window like WAR, almost identical resource gain as WAR (strictly speaking Blood, Blood Weapon is basically 4.x Infuriate but you need to actually hit five gcds). What sets us apart is MP usage on 3 abilities and defensive cooldowns.