What have you done?

[Scremin]

Lol, hold on. I had to read this a second time.

So, you're glad they got rid of Dark Arts because you needed to spam it, but you're also glad you only have one single target combo now that you're forced to spam? What are you even talking about dude.

If you were remotely decent, you already were spamming one single combo then, unless you actually used power slash, and considered that "decision making"

And yet here we are still spamming 1-2-3 just without DA. Instead of giving something interesting to do Square instead doubled down on the boring design. MP management was way easier than it was in HW sure, but you still had to be careful about what you were spamming as it was still easy to bottom out your magic. Killing our haste buff with blood weapon was also a terrible idea.

MP is harder to generate, but we barely have anything to spend it on. As long as you keep at least 6,000 MP in reserve you can basically spam whatever you want when it comes to the shadow moves and still easily have enough to use TBN when necessary. We basically have nothing to manage anymore other than dark side which it ridiculously easy to keep up. One combo, nothing to manage, a shallow tool kit, I’m just not seeing the complexity you’re referring to.

First, don't double post, second, oh my god, aren't you a little overdramatic over changes? Before you spammed 1-2-3 while weaving DA, now you spam 1-2-3 while weaving Flood/Edge of Darkness/Shadow... what's so different from DA? Roughly the same cost, and more potency, because let's face it, DA was just something to buff an attack for 140 potency, nothing more, no nuance, no decision making, you had MP, you used DA for the potency gain, simple as that. Let's not forget the other cds, C&S, AD, let alone BS. So while you are doing your 1-2-3 combo there's always something coming off cooldown to use. And please don't comment on blood weapon speed buff, it wasn't that great to begin with, will we miss it? Yes we will, but not that bad.

So while you claim it's boring you to tears, then you are either A: doing it wrong, or B: DRK is not the job for you anymore, probably never was, you put too much value in your ilusion of decision making. You want more combos? Well there's GNB and PLD for that, i like the OGCD style of DRK more.

So please stop calling it shallow? While it doesn't work for you, clearly is working for a lot of people, and your dramatic attitude over changes is really annoying at the very least.