I wonder how popular DRK will be on this expansion, since PLD is now the poster boy and their new Confiteor finishers look sick as hell, plus Reaper fullfilling the DRK dps fantasy.

I really wonder how many of those players "who like DRk as it is" will be left.

On Stormblood was "easier" because Darkside no longer drained MP (just negated natural MP regen) and you earned so much MP with combos that you had to spam Dark Arts constantly or overflow creating the broken yet fun AOE Lifedrain of death on dungeons run with Dark Arted Abyssal Drain, TBN and Quietus synergy alternating Blood Weapon and Blood Price.

Basically even if there still was some degree of complexity left, you had to try hard to really mess it up unlike Heavensward where mistakes were far more costly and easier to happen