Quote Originally Posted by RadicalPesto View Post
Edge Spam is not even remotely comparable to DA spam. A mildly unimpressive buff with that easily reached 10 casts per minute has a very different feeling from a high potency attack that is cast only 4 times per minute.
Yeah, having not much else to do but repeat one combo with next to no ogcds and then spamming one ogcd multiple times when raid buffs are up, is so much better than having to watch your mp and weaving extra ogcd whenever you'd overcap, while still conserving most of your mp for the spam burst windows. /s

The amount of Dark Arts in SB was a problem, but not the amount of MP and APM. What we needed was more different things to spend MP on than just DA and TBN. SHB has cut the amount of APM which makes the job feel slower, but the inputs which do remain, are even less varied than before, rather than more.
The saddest part is that having Darkside upkeep be tied to an MP spender was a great idea to work towards that, but they tied it to all spenders instead of just one, including TBN, which entirely defeats the point.