When would you take DRK over PLD or WAR?

[Faytte]

Huh. And I felt the DRK would be an off-tank class, with it's endless enmity generation via both MP and TP, since the AOE and ranged enmity abilities are the ones running off of MP and comparatively cost the PLD and especially WAR a -lot- of TP.

It's interesting to see forum wisdom go the other way, based upon things other than holding hate.

Off tanking is about putting up single target dps, but much more importantly, its about applying debuffs to bosses. No debuff the DRK can put up as an offtank is very good. Raids are almost exclusively single target fights, or with very limited adds.

[PWilson]

Off tanking is about putting up single target dps, but much more importantly, its about applying debuffs to bosses. No debuff the DRK can put up as an offtank is very good. Raids are almost exclusively single target fights, or with very limited adds.

Hey, I don't disagree, I just thought it was an interesting thing. Shows my own inexperience, more than anything, I guess.