Quote Originally Posted by ReiMakoto View Post
And finally the MP drain was changed partly due to accessibility, and also partly because it didn't really mean anything, running out of mana only happened if you werent paying attention same way you overcapped on mana in SB if you weren't paying attention, sure you were punished more in HW, but honestly you were at way more risk of overcapping more often than you ever were at running out in HW.
The introduction of cutscene phase transitions with Zurvan (and StB's heavy use of them) was what made the MP drain not viable and led to the ShB "no MP regen" version of Darkside.

So whilst many would like HW drk to come back, it would involve the devs walking back on multiple broad changes that effected a lot of jobs not just DRK, DRK was just caught in the unfortunate ven diagram of all of them.
Exactly.