An unprofessional Darkside Analysis

[VenKitsune]

Or 24 player raids where it is literally impossible for you to maintain because you cannot re-apply Darkside outside of combat to keep it active, which is one of the many reasons why I hate doing any content as DRK because I have no way of keeping Darkside up outside of battle, just because of how long it takes to get to either the next trash pull or the next boss or both...

Yes you can hold on to "Dark Arts" but the way you go about getting it is so poorly designed that the devs should have either kept the Dark Arts Spam, or kept Dark Arts as its own separate button...

I would also rather not have Dark Arts be a "free damage+Darkside Maintenance" because it's a still lazy design choice.

But apparently the devs hate tanks(not just DRK) buffing before a fight starts when BRD, DNC, DRG, NIN, MNK, BLM, RDM, SCH, and AST can all buff before the fight starts and get a free pass(though some of these jobs still need to get some of their buffs while in combat to be 100% ready like NIN, MNK, BLM, SCH). Either let everyone buff before the fight starts or prevent everyone from buffing before the fight starts.

Why do you need a damage boosting skill active outside of combat?

Dragoons can't apply their Disembowl outside of combat. Monks can't GAIN new stacks of GL outside of combat. Bards can't get song effects outside of battle. Warrior can't get Storms eye outside of combat.

Why should DRK suddenly have the ability to keep darkside going out of combat when literally no other class allows that?

Also your arugment is stupid - If all classes were allowed to buff before a pull, or all wern't allowed until in combat, it would suddenly become much more monotonous to play so many jobs, and there would be little reason to bring some jobs over others half the time.

SE are the ones that have been balancing the game for 6+ years, not you, and while they haven't done the best of jobs of it they still have 6+ years of experience more than you and many moneys worth and hours worth of research in to it.