Quote Originally Posted by DRKoftheAzure View Post
If those people who want to keep spamming Souleater combo in AoE just to get MP back for Flood of Darkness then go for it, I'm not going to stop the people who want to do it. I'm just going to tell them that there is a better QoL option they could go for if they really want it...
this is the reason why i feel that stalwart really needs to be moved to lv 40. by having it moved early, it can let people build more resource and do more damage, while making the gameplay loop of the job feel much better than just spamming unleash with the occasional flood till u can use quietus every now and then.

in ARR content, DRK is so starved of mana because the devs don't want Edge/Flood to be used more frequently that you end up having to single target while in AOE fights in order to flood, because unleash just doesn't cut it by itself. on top of that, the weaker AOE damage from not having stalwart makes DRK have to rely on souleater for HP even more until we get Abyss Drain (which should at least get an extra charge at lv 60 something sheesh)

in HW dungeons, the lack of stalwart makes the gameplay loop feel identical to ARR until you get abyssal drain, which is only usable once a minute anyway, and with Salted being so much weaker and coming twice as slow as it used to, it ends up getting very little use overall. the lack of Sole Survivor at lv 58 makes the job still feel slow at building, and at lv 60 CnS only restores 600 every minute.

STB dungeons don't get that much better until you get quietus, and even then its lack of inherit mana generation means that until delirium at 68, it just becomes a stronger unleash you can throw out every now and then.

If the devs really want to keep tank damage low, then they could just nerf the potencies on edge/flood to make up for the extra damage and resource that stalwart would bring. this would also end up changing DRKs power in HW and STB content, but it would end up being a healthy change that could allow the job to feel much more engaging and powerful