Quote Originally Posted by pikalovr View Post
well that sucks it would add alot and make it more separated than the other tanks i would still like to see the shield and burst heavy aspects tho
Dark Arts was supposed to mimic the idea of sacrificing hp. They obviously can't do full HP conversion of it since DRK would be a giant pain to heal, especially if you could spam it. And they want accessibility, not turn people away from it.

And even then, I have no faith they'd pull it off. They have a good thing to build on with the Darkside gauge: hopefully they build it so it and Blood/Shadow aren't just gussied up buffs and DoT/Beast Gauge.