Quote Originally Posted by Aidorouge View Post
Yeah, definitely feels like nothing actually changed accept that people will melt down even faster, as I doubt the extra HP will matter much with all the new AOEs, LBs and debuffs flying around on top of the fact that Salted Earth remains completely intact, so I don't see the meta budging much outside of maybe which jobs follow the DRK stack.
Well, technically, yes. They didn't remove it. What is not so obvious is Purify is on a shorter CD and the Resilience it provides now makes you immune to draw-in and knockbacks. That's actually a stealth nerf to the DRK draw-in meta against anyone who can do the bare minimum and pay attention. I imagine that they also can't be nearly as gung-ho every engagement now that they take slightly more damage and their LB takes at least half a minute longer to fill and several jobs got new Guard-ignoring attacks (SCH can outright debuff a Guard's defense) if they think just popping it after Salted is still a failsafe.