All this dark is dead talk is so stupid.
wat scenario are u judging by? NMs? aby parties? solo?
For abyssea NM's sheer brute dmg isnt even valuable considering u want time to trigger !!'s and a controlled environment. Dark brings so much to the table in thse scenarios because its not a one sided DD. It can tank; stun; cover a majority of red WS's and a whole lot of blue as well and with the right builds can maintain respectable dmg for when its time to pedal to the metal own the NM.
Aby parties darks do more than fine. Everyone is basing this Loldrk based on WS numbers. totally not the only way to do dmg. First off, there Ws numbers are nooot thaaaat far off. Yeh i get it, a 2500 guillotine is not a 4k ascetic fury... so *** wat.
I watched a dark the other day Every 4 minutes he would pop souleater for 1 minute then again 4 minute cool down rinse repeat.
during souleater he would pop last resort for 30 seconds his Scythe swing time was super fast due to Desperate blows im assuming.
For this 1 minute he would equip magnus scythe (yeh yeh tp loss for switching weapons blah blah he lost like 1 swing worth of tp)
about half of his swings during that minute were for 1k-1300 dmg on a regular swing... the other ones were either 500ish no crit and 750ish crit. Every 3 minutes he was doing around an 800 drain II
and every minute a 500-600ish drain I (the numbers for the drains rarely showed full but i was paying attention to % loss when he used it.) He also added around 1200 dmg from dread spikes every 3 minutes. And then he had his 1800-2500 guillotines that are sooo lol right?
The point is if u think dark is dead then ur obviously not using the tools SE gave u. Ur not staying on top of ur timers. Ur not using ur spells and ur gear. Now maybe when u say dark is lol wat u really mean is "dark is too much work, i can has mor with less button @_@?"
And the last possible way to judge dark is with solo play. Dark is perfectly equiped to solo abyssea. They have plenty of dmg mitigation and healing. Plenty of dmg. and they can trigger ruby azure amber and pearl. and they are ACTUALLY capable of truly soloing, Not dual box a cheap *** whm mule in tow and call it soloing.
"lookit me i am soes good =) im invinshible (<3 my whm slave)"
P.S. so there. not that u trolls will listen to me anyway. Its in ur nature to skim read and ignore any post thats over 10 lines long.