Quote Originally Posted by ArthurATDayne View Post
Living Shadow needs to Move Its Ass and Attack Immediately, Stop Posing and Screwing Around.
I get the aesthetic value of the shadow moving earlier, but so long as you're only going to be popping it on longer-lived enemies anyways (and are therefore unlikely to have its total duration go to waste over it not beginning that duration instantly), would this actually make a difference. (Heck, if it did result in a consistent potency increase... it'd just be siphoned from elsewhere unless DRK were undertuned.)

Granted, I'm all for giving Living Shadow the Dancing Rune Weapon treatment (double effects, and +50% damage from each GCD skill over the duration) a la a Bunshin skill actually done right, but... simply skipping the Unmend cast at the start in favor of instantly plunging in (when each is, effectively, on the same 3-second DoT tick / "Shadow-GCD") just makes no difference to actual throughput.

Enhanced Unmend + Plunge is Trash Fluff, Give Dark Knights More Reliable ON-Demand HP Restore option besides Abyssal Drain in current state.
*Looks at Ninja's resets of its longer-CD movement skill on ranged attacks (Raiton, Katon) that aren't a damage-loss even in melee range.*
*Looks back at DRK, for which the oGCD value of Plunge still wouldn't make up for the effective damage loss of using Unmend when the melee combo is available.*
*Double-take.*

Really, though; just reduce Plunge's potency if need be slightly and have Enhance Unmend unlock a free use of Plunge within the next 5 seconds. Voila. It'd actually be kind of fun instead of merely a jeer.

Blood Weapon 60s CD: 5 Stacks 30s Duration This isn't up for debate.
Debatable. No, really, when the exact same functional value can be had by just adding a second or two's duration, why are we so fixated on turning anything and everything into an ammo system?

Delirium 60s CD: 3 Stacks 30s Duration Increase Mana Restore to compensate for only 3 instead of 5 Bloodspillers/Quietus.
Or just give MP restoration equal to average mana-gen-per-gcd of our combo on ALL blood spending GCDs, rather than only those under Delirium. We don't really need even more to bank for/around raid CDs.