Quote Originally Posted by Amon-ster View Post
I wonder if people who "miss Dark Arts spam" realize that you can use Edge of Shadow as an MP spender to do more damage, rather than exclusively using it to refresh your Darkside gauge. You can literally use it like you did Stormblood Dark Arts, except now it does 500 potency instead of 150
You do realize that it is definitely not the case when you want to max out the damage potential for DRK, right? (Basically playing optimally) You can't play DRK like that if you don't want to be considered a "bad DRK".

Not to mention; Dark Arts costed 2400 MP while you got 1200 MP from Syphon Strike in 4.X. Meaning you'd get another Dark Arts every second SE combo - and I'm not even including Delirium and Blood Weapon, good use of those would always reward you with more Dark Arts to press. Point being, you used it a lot more to break up the monotony of using only the SE combo.

While yes, EoS is he replacement for Dark Arts in a way, because it has such a potency, you have to use it in buff windows to increase your DPS instead of spamming it whenever and that's all there is to that. They also changed the MP cost from 2400 MP to 3000 MP while lowering the MP gain on literally everything. Syphon Strike gives now 600 MP... Granted, you get MP CnS now, also 600 on a 60s CD and the natural MP regen but that sure as hell is nowhere near enough to not only seeing SE combo for quite some time, even IF you spammed EoS.

One would think that because our max MP increased, that'd be the reason why EoS is 3000 MP now but that's obviously not the case. In SB, you had an MP cap of 9480 MP, so you could do 3 DAs back to back, leaving you with another 120 MP needed for another one. in ShB, you're at 10k MP cap and EoS can be casted 3 times as well, but you're at 1k MP after doing so, neglecting the natural MP gain.

To sum it up, they decreased the rate of our new "DA" by increasing the potency and lowering the MP gain making the job much slower than before. Not to mention that BW and Delirium in ShB are both terrible compared what they used to be. Old BW was just superior in every possible way there is.