So I finally got DRK to level 80, and I still think it sucks...


-Living Shadow is basically showing you what your Blood gauge combos could have been, and because it's a pet it has the possibility of being a DPS loss because the boss goes untargetable, or trash dies too quickly, so bring back Dark Arts as a button you press to increase your potency by 200 and have it upgrade into Living Shadow which increases you potency by 400.



-Stalwart Soul is too ****ing bright, but I wish it was an oGCD DoT, and I would have rather have Dark Passenger at level 40 and it be the combo path for Unleash.


-Salted Earth needs to be replaced with target AoE that is part of the Unleash combo path, preferably the combo ender after Dark Passenger.


-The Blackest Night is either DPS neutral or a DPS loss for high cost, so remove the cost and the DPS neutral/loss effect, and Bring back Shadowskin, have it at level 4 and make it upgrade into The Blackest Night at level 70.


-Edge/Flood of Darkness/Shadow extending Darkside is fine, but because they both cost MP and DRK hate dying because of the huge penalty of death is even greater for them because they don't have the MP to get Darkside back up in time to save a wipe so they need to bring back Darkside as a button, and rework Edge/Flood of Darkness to just cost MP when you don't have blood gauge to spend and have them turn in Edge/Flood of Shadow when you have 50 and turn them into Blood gauge combo spenders like how the pet does it.


-Dark Dance could have been a better invuln for DRK instead of Living Dead... enough said on the invuln topic...


This my compromise, because of how bad DRK leveling is EVEN WITH THE TRUST SYSTEM, I refuse to get the level 80 artifact gear for DRK and I also refuse to do the level 80 DRK quest because of how bad DRK is in practice...