As someone who loved to DRK during Stormblood and absolutely hates it right now we do not need to return to stormblood style of DRK..

Now hear me out.. Dark Arts was to much bloat on skills even with your reduction on MP to minimize the use of it.. it is still to much.. people will do what they did with it in StormBlood.. spam it.. freakout about lack of mp and then never return to the class again..

Those that don't do it that way wouldn't return too due to the hate of DarkArts..

My suggestion to fixing DRK would be to fix 3 big issues that currently ruin the class..

1)its Warrior lite.. i don't want my DRK to build a Guage use a knockoff fellcleave(bloodsplitter) and then pop a inner release(delirium) for 5 more blood splitters..

We shouldn't have a inner release rotation we should be able to build up enough blood between combos to put out a bloodsplitter when we need or want.

2)Living Dead needs a rework.. so many time during Stormblood did it get wasted due to being healed to soon or that the healers couldn't meet the healing requirement from Walking Dead to save me.. A super shouldnt require a white mage on standby to Benny me.

I'd suggest remaking the skill so once Living Dead is used you can't receive any healing during the duration.. once you enter Living Dead you take no damage during it so you can only be healed up.. also I would remove the death on not being fully healed.. we shouldn't be cursing ourselves with doom to try an survive an attack.. maybe add a special effect to the DRK that any attack you do during the super will heal you for that much HP.. thus giving the DRK some solo sustainability in emergency situations.

3)DRKs need a heal that isn't attached to their combos.. WAR has Equal.. Pally has Clem.. GNB has Aurora..

I'd suggest a skill that would work like Clemency.. im going call it Blood for Blood for now.. it would be a spell with the same cast time as Clemancy.. let it deal damage an heal for the amount done.. or better yet rework Abysal Drain into the heal.. remove the outrageous timer and make it a single target damage an heal on the GCD

I'm sure someone would have a better idea then this for fixing the glass but I know that's the 3 things that would need to be fixed to being me back to playing a DRK again