Edge/Flood of Darkness/Shadow share a cooldown timer, why?

[DRKoftheAzure]

Like seriously, why have those 2 abilities share a cooldown timer when it would have been better to make them GCD?

DRK lost a lot of actually usable GCD and oGCD for oGCD skills that share a recast timer because.... Why exactly? It's not button bloat that's for sure...

[shao32]

both skills are the same, edge it's for single target and flood is for aoes, they effect is the same but they are designed for diferent encounters.

[DRKoftheAzure]

They could have easily achieved the exact same result by making Dark Passenger combo off of Unleash, which would allow Abyssal Drain combo off of Dark Passenger, but they it really feels the Yoshi-P and devs didn't even put any thought into DRK at all though when it comes to this sort of thing...

Heck you could re-implement Power Slash combo to where you need to activate and maintain Darkside and the could-have-been AoE combo maintains Darkside and Souleater would still be the combo you spam the most and would be somewhat fun... They could go the extra mile by still adding Edge/Flood of Darkness/Shadow be a 4th combo button or even make Queitus and Bloodspiller 5th combo for those 2 could-have-been Darkside maintenance combos but they didn't...

Also I HATE Edge/Flood of Darkness/Shadow animations... they are terrible compared to Power Slash combo, Dark Passenger, AND Scourge...

[shao32]

the fun thing is flood is dark passenger with a new skin and now extend you darkside thats all, i just imagine they did that to have the feeling of have a new thing.

[Trayes]

There is a lot of valid problems that people have with DRK. However, this is one of the more pointless things I have read on the class.

[DRKoftheAzure]

There is a lot of valid problems that people have with DRK. However, this is one of the more pointless things I have read on the class.

Trust me, as a former DRK main going GNB main, DRK has a lot of problems, and a lot of the DRK changes when going from Stormblood to Shadowbringers makes ask, "What was the point of adding "new" abilities if they just make the class/job worse?" since a lot of the backlash on DRK balance changes could have been avoided by addressing many core problems that it had in Stormblood that was circumvented with some actually good adjustments, but they just cut out abilities that could have easily been repurposed to do something else.

Or was FF14 spaghetti code still causing problems on that front...?

[DRKoftheAzure]

the fun thing is flood is dark passenger with a new skin and now extend you darkside thats all, i just imagine they did that to have the feeling of have a new thing.

I would have excepted that if it comboed off of Dark Passenger...

[ADVSS]

We really only needed the one button push, its not like there was ever an aoe heavy thrust(now disembowel) but flood def would be cool if it was an aoe combo chain instead of what it is,

[Cosaint]

Because you are supposed to choose between one or the other, you aren't supposed to use both at the same time. They are situational. Sorry but your question doesn't make any sense.

[ADVSS]

Because you are supposed to choose between one or the other, you aren't supposed to use both at the same time. They are situational. Sorry but your question doesn't make any sense.

Its an additional refresh button, its existance is entirely built upon that one "situation" it could do anything else, and still be an aoe supplement. They got rid of ultimatum, can you tell me why? Ill tell you why, we already had single target provoke.