The Current state of DRK

[OdinelStarrei]

So you believe that not even bothering to continue to try to raise this issue is the right course of action?

It's coming from a place of precedent. Everyone on a fundamental level agrees with you. The job is awful now, and depending on who you ask, the job has been awful for a long time. They aren't saying to you specifically, "You are wasting your time, stop annoying us with your rework pleas" but instead "You are wasting your time, stop doing Square Enix's job for them, and they aren't going to listen to you, because we've been complaining for literally years now and haven't been listened to."

Think about it man. Something like Living Dead, was a poorly designed skill at the outset of 3.0 that only got worse and worse with time. We didn't get a resolution to that until 6.1. Blood Weapon issues after the rework were constantly complained about for years before they got fixed, and then they BROKE it AGAIN when they nerfed it this expansion and combined it with Delirium, something that has an entire different intent than Blood Weapon used to, even if they were used at similar times. Maybe if they kept BW at a 40 second CD, they would have remembered what the skill's original purpose was.

Why bother speaking to developers who don't listen, don't care about the job, and never interact with the community of mains who have at the very least, have made it consistently obvious that no one is happy with the job or the constant nerfs and borderline malicious treatment? You have better results running yourself headfirst into a brick wall then trying to get these developers to develop a fun, engaging, and unanimously accepted Dark Knight playstyle or admit their decisions post-rework have been nonsensical and unexciting, and that's me being generous. They don't want us to manage gauges, because they removed Darkside, removed MP management, and removed Blood management. They don't want us having a fast APM or inputs per minute, because they removed Blood Weapon GCD haste, removed or consolidated our oGCDs, slowed down our openers and killed Skill Speed Dark Knight viability. They don't want us having multiple combo strings or really any kind of GCD centric playstyle either because the last GCD DRK gets before the one-and-done Disesteem is Fell Cleave Minus (having all it's originality killed in the rework) at 62. Just 1-2-3 until whatever is left of a Dark Knight's grey matter slide out of their ears.

So where does that leave you and the rest of us DRKs? Someone who is putting more effort into Dark Knight design, conceptualization and discourse then the developers do. And you aren't even being paid. So give up. The developers certainly did. It's for the best.

Pathetic job.