(02-13-2014, 02:17 PM)Sounsyy Wrote: Maybe if you fleshed out your idea for DRK a little more beyond Toggle and Done, I wouldn't be misunderstanding you as much as you say I am? Show me how your DRK would function and why it'd be more viable on GLA than on MRD or on a completely new class.
You really, really did not read my post.
The DRK outline that I described has them doing pretty much what every other damage dealer in the game does: using a rotation and managing some class mechanic. For BLM it's your Astral Fire and Umbral Ice cycles. For SMN it's managing MP and Aetherflow charges. For MNK it's your Greased Lightning stacks. For DRG it's managing flanking bonuses. For BRD it's weaving Bloodletters between the GCD.
For DRK it's managing your MP and Blood Plague and Lethal Venom DoTs, which you have to make sure expire right around the same time, so you can land Soul Eater in that little window between 1 second remaining and the DoT falling off. So you do that by adjusting your standard damage rotation, weaving Drain between global cooldowns to restore MP, using your Riot Blade combo (but not using Lethal Strike, since that'd reset the duration of your DoT and you want both to tick close to 0 simultaneously) to restore MP, making sure you have the huge MP cost necessary to use Soul Eater when your DoTs tick down to near-zero.
Honestly I don't get what the hell your problem is since the little design I did for a GLA-based DRK is actually more complex and deep than most of the damage dealers we already have. Yes, they lose a lot of their abilities when performing their role, but so does scholar, and yes as a scholar I will DPS but only when I don't need to heal. Eos cannot make up for my healing and mitigation powers on the tank when Twintania is hitting the tank like a Mack truck. Similarly, a GLA-based DRK would lose their tanking abilities when performing their role, just like SCH loses ACN's damage abilities when performing its role. But they could both fall back upon the roles of their base classes when necessary.
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