Anyone toy around with drk merits yet?

[Rappa]

I know Absorb-TP is all most drks wanna talk about now, but I was wondering if anyone's tried out the drk merits yet. After being disappointed with Protectra/Shellra V for whm, I decided to try my next merits on drk. So I put one into Desperate Blows, put on a scythe for a nice sized delay, and tried it out. And honestly.. with only one merit I couldn't visibly tell a difference in attack speed with and without Last Resort going. This looks like a trait you'd have to dump a lot of merits into to see any kind of tangible return.

Anyone tried the other ones? Dark Circle doesn't seem that useful to me honestly, especially with the huge recast timer on it. Diabolic Eye... I don't see this being too useful unless it stays active for a long time. I mean, I don't really have accuracy issues anyway, and lowering your max hp isn't the smartest thing in the world, and pretty much kills stacking it with Souleater. That just leaves Muted Soul and well, I don't really feel like I need lowered enmity during Souleater. I doubt I can put all 6 merits into Desperate Blows, but if I can I will, maybe then it'll be noticeable. Even if you can only put 3, I could imagine with a maxed out Last Resort Effect and Last Resort Recast from original merits that you could put out some crazy damage every 4 minutes and 10 seconds, hehe.

 

[billytibbetts]

Why not dump much of it into Muted Soul? Souleater's an incredible ability, but most drks don't use it for much more than a weapon skill because of the huge enmity it creates.

What are the duration and recast time of the DRK abilities?