Why Not make Abyssal Drain the 3rd part of the AOE Combo

[Selvokaz]

Have it keep its current effect of hp drain/healing to the Dark Knight but make it the last hit in the 3 hit AOE Combo, this would mean it becomes an ability that only becomes available at the end of the combo or it works as it does now but when you do the first two hits in the aoe combo it immediately becomes available for recast. or just make it a gcd ability usable at the end of the combo like monk has with theirs.

[Oizen]

Because then WAR players would be upset they dont also have a 3rd aoe combo

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

Because then WAR players would be upset they dont also have a 3rd aoe combo

Don't tell them about about Paladin having a quasi 3rd step in the AOE combo with Divine Might: Holy Circle then, they gonna have an anneurysm if they learn a tank has something they don't.

[Terhix]

Abyssal Drain just needs to be 30s cooldown disjointed from Carve and Spit, healing for something like 600 potency on main target and 200 on the rest as usual. That one change would fix or at least help with many issues DRK has:

1. Large pulls in dungeons would be way more survivable, still not comparable to WAR but WAR is overtuned in dungeons so that's fine.
2. At least some sustain in raids.
3. Increase casts per minute by 2 putting DRK somewhere between GNB and WAR (that DRK, a job focused on oGCD damage, is currently at the same CPM as WAR is tragic).
4. Gives you something to press between 1min/2min cooldowns.
5. A bit of extra damage as DRK is not where it should be in damage department.

[Kalaam]

Or it becomes a spammable spell again.

[EmsaVadenn]

Have it keep its current effect of hp drain/healing to the Dark Knight but make it the last hit in the 3 hit AOE Combo, this would mean it becomes an ability that only becomes available at the end of the combo or it works as it does now but when you do the first two hits in the aoe combo it immediately becomes available for recast. or just make it a gcd ability usable at the end of the combo like monk has with theirs.

DRK have already 5 spell ONLY for multi target, that's enough, stop please !

[Post]

When they decided to normalize all tanks in ShB, they decided Unleash, not Abyssal Drain, the ranged enemy targeted spell, would be the best one to define DRK's unique identity. Unleash, the spell that behaved the same way as Flash, Total Eclipse, and Demon Slice in a world without TP, and eventually Overpower once they decided conal AoEs were bad (except for new melee jobs. Old ones can't have them.)

Not Abyssal Drain, the spell designed to let DRK stay alive on a giant trash pull in a way that would make WAR jealous (and eventually, another thing stolen from DRK).

I dunno, they probably just weren't satisfied with its appearance or something. Even Carve and Spit that it's strangely tied to kinda went from being a multipurpose tool into just another oGCD damage button when they chucked Dark Arts.