An idea to solve the DRK problem

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Step 2 : Living Shadow

I'd like the burst window to be linked to Living Shadow instead of Delirium to make it more than just a glorified dot. Hitting Living Shadow would be the big happening, that would justify it having it's own timer on the job gauge, because it's your burst timer. LS would be the main blood spender while Bloodspiller and Quietus would be the filler spenders while waiting for LS.

If the interaction between the ressources (a blood spender preventing spending mana) is a problem, we could go even further and replace the 50 blood cost of LS by a mana cost. A la Black mage, LS would cost you all your mana (or any fixed value, the amount isn't the most important part) but would do two things : spawn Fray (which is mechanically a big dot) and nullify the cost of the mana spenders (and that would result in the burst window described before).

Obviously, there wouldn't be any interaction with Bloodspiller and Quietus anymore.

Doing that would obviously need a whole lot of rebalancing to the duration, the cooldown and the Potenty

So now, we are left with two pieces of the kit that are kinda broken still : the blood gauge (and its spenders) and TBN (and its DA proc).

Honestly, it would be so much easier to just remove the cost on TBN and do something else with DA. But I kinda like how it works currently, it gives it a different feel compared to the others equivalent mitig of the other tanks.

Step 3 : TBN and the blood gauge

An easy fix to DA being useless during the burst window would be to relocate TBN to the blood gauge. Make it cost 50 blood gauge and make DA give a free use of Bloodspiller or Quietus.

That would also make the blood gauge behave a bit differently than the other 100 gauge/50 spenders. I play all jobs, but I'm not an expert at most of them, so I could be wrong but from my understanding, you spend the ressource when you're between 50 and 100 to not overcap while still having a bit of leeway. Here, that would be the reverse, you would always have 50 gauge for a TBN and would spend the resource on Bloodspiller/quietus as soon as you hit 100 blood.

Making TBN a blood ressource would introduce the problem of not being able to use it on CD. But two loops of the 123 combo is a bit less than 15 sec, so increasing the blood generation of Souleater to 25 would solve the problem. (In AoE, there isn't this problem).

We could also repurpose Bloodspiller and Quietus. As they are not the subject of the burst window anymore, it doesnt matter as much if they are big hitters. Instead they could have lower potency but have an additional effect of healing, or maybe to stay more in line with TBN, of shielding. That would transform the blood gauge from a damage ressource into a sustainability one, and that would give DRK some of this sustainability on the GCD that he doesnt have as of now.

Let's elaborate a bit on this idea :

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