People like to think DRK isn't as good. What most don't realize is that as unreliable as it may be, Reprisal has it's place as the 2nd best debuff of all tanks.

People seem to forget that Reprisal STACKS with Warrior's debuff leading to a steady 10% and sometimes 20% reduction of ALL damage from a boss.

That includes AoEs whether they are avoidable or not. I don't know about you, but to me, that's pretty huge.

I'm going to put this out there: "DRK + WAR with DRK as MT will be the new meta for stable end-game raid farming"

Other combinations of tanks are highly focused on reducing damage taken only by the tank whereas I can see the combo of DRK + WAR having a permanent raid wide 10-20% mitigation from a boss's AoE.