Some DRK changes seem annoyingly simple yet are ignored....

[VicariousXIV]

I mean, it's a more frequent, more flexible (outside of maybe Holy Shelltron), more precise, and higher-skill-ceiling tool that allows us to cheesily keep ourselves from even getting debuffed. It's also the last unique "on-demand" defensive of the bunch. Liking it doesn't require desperation nor nostalgia, only having played without and with it.

It's also pretty absurd that people who didn't play in Stormblood blame it for the loss of this or that other capacity... despite its addition also giving us the largest extent of those other capacities simultaneously. DRK's vampirics reached their most unique, most synergetic, and most powerful... all with the release of TBN.

It's only "more precise" cause of a shorter duration, artificial "preciseness" if anything cause all defensives still have to be used roughly at the same times, and it's "skill ceiling" is actually incredibly low. If anything it's got a higher "skill floor" as it takes slightly longer for new players to grasp it's proper use but once you get the basics you're practically at the low as fuck ceiling already lol Not that the other tank's low CD defensives are "skill intensive," but they all have auxiliary effects that aren't just "use damage ability you'd have used anyways" and actually provide for and emphasize a playstyle that again isn't just "costs MP."

And sure, maybe the DRK felt the best right when TBN was released, that's subjective so I won't deny anyone that sentiment and there's plenty of reason to feel that way, but that was YEARS ago, we've moved past that period of time and the DRK is being left behind because of this apparent need to maintain this now subpar defensive ability.