Quote Originally Posted by OdinelStarrei View Post
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Ex DRK main here, I used to optimise around raid buff windows on SB drk and in this sense shb drk falls down as well. The shear amound of mana generation on SB combined with how much more often you dumped your mana and blood made optimising for raid buffs more engaging than it is now. Fundamentally DRK hasn't changed much in the fact that it is a flexible mana dumping class with a fairly low skill floor, the difference is with SB drk, I could reasonable pool and distribute rescources between a 60s and 90s raidbuff window, and maximising both made for much more skillful mana management due to how much more rescource you generated, the issue was that the impact of dumping mana was a lot less than it is now, simply because mana generation was so much more plentiful that each mana was worth less damage as it were. With how slow shb drks rescource generation is comparitevely, it makes it less fun for me to try and optimise around these buff windows, as more often than not it becomes pool blood/mana for the 60s lineup, then dump, then use what scraps youve got left blood wise for the 90s lineup while you pool mana for the 120s lineup, which is a lot less engaging than having mana and blood dumps at both these intervals if you played effectively.