Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
So, basically, what you already had to do before, but with less pressure now.

You don't have to save MP to stance dance, you don't have to save MP to use Dark Arts on C&S to use it on CD, you don't have to save MP to Dark Arts Abyssal Drain, and you also don't have to coordinate Delirium with Blood Weapon to make sure it gives the most MP/Blood that it can.
The basic difference is that the difficulty could previously be considered consequent to both "decisions" and "checks", and now can only rightly be categorized as consequent to "checks" ("Did you remember to _____?"), and with fewer spikes in the attention required or types of "checks".

It's kind of like how HW DRK actions-per-minute and SB DRK actions-per-minute were actually quite close, yet felt very different in that DA wasn't the be-all-end-all of HW oGCDs, yet it very nearly was in SB.