Dark Knight a more moderate Discussion and Suggestion Thread

[Taranok]

I went in and did Bismarck, had no problem to cover all of the hard hitting spells with cooldowns and didn't really feel squishy. Asked the healers and they said it was like healing a warrior or paladin.
The only real problem with dark knight tanks is when the tank busters come quicker than your spells come off cooldown as you only have two( three if it's magical ) cooldowns that have a somewhat long cooldown, this doesn't happen during Bismarck and supposedly not during Ravana, might be a problem in alexander

Why does everyone keep saying this? The DRK has four mitigation skills. Shadowskin, Shadow Wall, Dark Mind, and Living Dead. If you have physical busters on a 1 minute rotation, you can tank them all with a cooldown for 7 different busters. 0m Shadowskin -> 1m Shadow Wall -> 2m Shadow Skin -> 3m Living Dead -> 4m Shadow Skin -> 5m Shadow Wall -> 6m Shadowskin. As long as it's on about a 1 minute cycle (absolute minimum of 45 and change seconds), the class has some options, such as with Bahamut. The problem is when you are trying to go after Twintania or T13's Storm that have 30-40s busters.

Living Dead should be treated like Holmgang is: A cooldown for busters, as that is what it is best at. That rotation is also capable of getting you going down to a very uncomfortable 45 second buster rotation, which should be adequate for the purposes of Bahamut but, again, not Twintania. If you time it well, you can have the -10% damage dealt debuff on the target for every Shadowskin buster as well thanks to Dark Dance, though that would take a lot of skill to reliably pull off (or at least a predictable rotation). But the nonsense that the DRK only has 2 physical mitigations really needs to stop.

The problem is that that is a very strict rotation to manage, and 7 busters isn't necessarily going to be enough for every fight moving forward, as it definitely isn't enough for older fights like Twin. But, with a sufficiently long buster rotation and using all of your cooldowns, it is possible, it just is very uncomfortable compared to the Paladin and Warrior.