My Opinion about the Dark knights need redesigning threads.

[TheCount]

you can use "dark passenger and dark arts" interchangeably with "dark dance and dark arts" or use them at the same time and you'll be evading often. this coupled with int mitigation and the damage mitigation. have blood price on at all times and spam the souleater combo, you shouldn't be running out of mp as a tank. dark arts with abyssal drain is awesome on big pulls. i dont see the hate that dark knight has been getting

The blind that doesn't apply to many bosses and "Blood Price" which does not give you back enough mana against a single target and is mostly useful only when dealing with trash mobs. Just the same Dark Dance doesn't do much against a single large boss and is RNG with that evasion for the short duration that it is active. Again, couple this in particular with the DRK inability to keep their damage debuff up and their int debuff being worse than the one from another class and you do have some things that need adjusting.

[Lionheart401]

The blind that doesn't apply to many bosses and "Blood Price" which does not give you back enough mana against a single target and is mostly useful only when dealing with trash mobs.

its true the evasion may not work on your next hit but its good overtime. Parry is RNG. Paladin's block is RNG and we see how good those are. it has to be somewhat low because its a 100% block amount. blood price still works good on bosses. i get bigger chunks back at a time on bosses maybe because blood price scales with the attack. you should be spamming souleater on bosses and using your dark arts for the dark buffs when available. occasionally using it on your enmity combo if people are catching up. you wont run out of mp that way. your suppose to help the healer work less hard on healing you. blood price when available and spamming the syphon strike combos with buffs in between should mean you dont run out of mp.

[TheCount]

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Yes you don't need to tell me that, I know how to tank. Fact remains that nobody is agreeing with you so far and that more than just the english forums are complaining, i'm well aware that doesn't per sé mean that doesn't automatically make it right but obviously the arguments have been had time and again and there are indeed some things that simply make DRK worse than other tanks. For one that damage debuff I mentioned that they are utterly unable to keep going, a very bad thing when other tanks can do that just fine. Healing is not a good way of migitation either for tanks, because there is the overhealing issue that makes it useless. It WOULD be more useful if it gave you some kind of aborbing of damage if you happen to go over 100% health when doing it.

Like others have said, Dark Knights can't deal with tank busters very well right now.

[Ipkonfig]

Like others have said, Dark Knights can't deal with tank busters very well right now.

What tank busters are we talking about?? Blinding Blade? Tapasya? Blinding Blade is MEANT to be split, and Tapasya only the first part should hit the second part is avoidable. Unless we're going back to old content, which I haven't tried, but really, why would I want to go back to that? Already beat it, move on.

[Ditto]

What tank busters are we talking about?? Blinding Blade? Tapasya? Blinding Blade is MEANT to be split, and Tapasya only the first part should hit the second part is avoidable. Unless we're going back to old content, which I haven't tried, but really, why would I want to go back to that? Already beat it, move on.

Tapasya isn't a tank buster.

Blinding Blade is only a tank buster in terms of damage when it's solo tanked.

A Drk cannot keep up in mitigating solo blinding blades.
A Pld can.
A War can.

Old content is the only thing people have to base things on. That, and common sense.

If a physical tank buster is anything shorter than 50 seconds or so apart, a Drk simply wont be able to do it. A War, and a Paladin however can.