The completely REASONABLE changes to the Dark Knight job thread

[Cidolfas86]

I was referring to using c&s blood weapon and syphon when ot not mt. Which means I wouldn't be in grit because I would be spending a lengthy amount of time not tanking. Also please show me what miraculous pld can out parse a drk in an aoe type encounter. Did circle of scorn get a buff I haven't noticed? Drk wipes the floor with pld in terms of aoe damage.

AoE damage only matters on trash pulls in dungeons which is a non-starter in raids. The PLD will still be taking less damage over all which is a given with the shield, but the gap is rather large at the moment between DRK and PLD. I'd go so far as to say that WAR is probably more DEF then DRK right now on anything not magic, and even then its a toss up.

Also you don't die the same way with vit or str accessories. Sure you're not mitigating any more or less damage aside from the 1% you might gain to parry but you have more of a cushion for a healer to manage. That's common sense. Instead of being at critical health in need of an immediate heal after a tank buster and auto attack you are at half and the healer has more time and can use a smaller heal to save you. Meaning less stress more room for error and less mp used by the healer. Warriors mitigation isn't dazzling either but people make good use of what it offers.

Except the problem isn't that DRKs are all walking around with full STR gear. The problem is the classes main defensive cool downs can't deal with tank busters or sustained damage very well. Not to mention they have longer cool downs. I mean Shadow Wall is basically a crappier Vengeance with 60 more seconds added to the recast.