Best Tank

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Many people often underestimate just how good a good DRK will be. DRK receive a bad reputation because currently there are ALOT of bad DRK out there. DRK mitigation is only slightly lower than PLD but they are more than capable of handling all the current content without placing alot of added stress on the healers. In addition their damage output in tanking stance far exceeds that of the other tanks. For example if you look at the dual boss setup of A1: Both tanks will be required to act in the roll of MT allowing for direct comparisons of tanks in a fight. With a DRK/PLD setup you can see that the DRK will consistently pull 100-200 dps more than the other tank while maintaining a similar level of mitigation (although slightly lower).

DRK's DPS as MT isn't that much higher than WAR. And depending on how often during the fight WAR can switch to Deliverance, it can overtake DRK by a very large degree. If you're pulling 200 more DPS than other tanks, regardless of which tank they are, you're hanging out with some very, very bad tanks.

Additionally, A1 is a bad example for your comparison, since every tank can get through that with their DPS stance. And if we're going by that standard, WAR wins by miles.

It's situational. A4 runs I've seen PLD struggle on the last phase. When I tank it's like... No damage when discord and ray hits due to being magic damage. I think essentially you'll want a physical tank and magic tank in raid. Sure a PLD can do it no doubt, they just have a harder time. Physical fights they are King, magical fights you want a DRK. As for WAR... I dunno DPS? Lol

Problem here is that with Inner Beast, WAR's ability to mitigate magic damage is pretty much on par with what DRK offers all without having to worry about nearly as much pesky resource management. And whatever extra difficulty PLD might have with magic heavy fights, it pales in comparison to what DRK has to deal with on the physical side. Especially when you consider that PLD's physical mitigation is far above what DRK's magical mitigation abilities can claim to offer.