Quote Originally Posted by Sancho_Nyanta View Post
I call what they did with Delirium "uninspired" because there a couple of easy things that they could've done to make it feel different.

I would like to preface my following comments by saying that these are not suggestions for changes as I don't think that they are going to make any changes nor does this take into consideration for potency balances or the need for double weaving. These are just examples for other ways they could have made Delirium create a spammy burst window to hit 5/6 skills while not being just a copy of inner release:

#1) 45 sec cd and 7 sec duration, with the same skill otherwise.

#2) 90 sec cd and 10 sec duration, giving us a permanent Dark Arts proc during the duration or make all atks give the Dark Arts proc during the duration.

#3) 45 sec CD, fills our MP bar and Blood gauge to maximum then gives us a Dark Arts proc.
I actually liked the fact Delirium used to extend Blood Weapon and restores MP, but right now a lot of this more "wait until next expac to see anything meaningful overhauls" but one can have hopes and dreams...


So first The Blackest Night is just more hindrance due to it just giving a free Flood/Edge of Darkness/Shadow and gives 25% HP shield (which can be even more punishing when you could have used that 3k MP for Edge/Flood of Darkness/Shadow) over 50 Blood Gauge, the 50 Blood Gauge was way better in my opinion because at least it was a guaranteed DPS gain or loss based on whether or not the shield broke, but early level mitigation is BAD, and 1 fix for this is bring back Shadowskin, and have it upgrade into The Blackest Night.


Second is Blood Weapon, I REALLY WISH Blood Weapon restore HP on hit because it's less stress for me(and DRKs in general) and less stress on the healers...


Third is Delirium... change it back so that it restores MP, extends Blood Weapon, and have it restore HP... and if they really want to push Living Shadow as the level 80 ultimate, then they can add the current Delirum effect as a level 80 trait...


But because the devs are more worried about drawing the WARs ire about how their DPS is crap compared to GNB, they will never do any of these changes until next expansion...


And on a side note, I see no reason bring DRK and WAR over GNB and PLD since DRK and WAR have the worst utility in the game, and probably the worst DPS even if you are playing optimally...