After getting dark knight 60 and playing it for a while

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And on the point of our survivability kit being lackluster, our big CD may have less mitigation than PLD, but we also have a self heal every 6 secs or so. Some of our mitigation is passive and some is active, and I feel like if everyone could look at the class without the WAR/PLD blinders on and looked at different ways to use things besides "more DPS" they would see that DRK isn't in such a horrible place.

I absolutely agree Drk isn't in a horrible place however...


Soul eater legitimately does not heal enough. And I don't mean that in the cliche "Oh static healing is bad" crap.
Look at the Healing potency per second a Warrior can put out, or even a Paladin as a result of Clemency. Dark Knight actually does not have a healing advantage unfortunately and to even try in compete in that department you're throwing out DA Soul Eaters like nobodies business.

At best Drk deals decent damage while self healing but as far as actual healing goes, Drk may very well have the worst self-healing of the three tanks. While comparing the 3 tanks isn't what you want if we're arguing the self-heal niche it isn't really there. I keep going back to magical damage mitigation...because it's actually there . For a Drk to bring their self-healing to its full capability they need a Warrior off-tanking for them dropping Storms Path & Eye. Which I suppose isn't a bad thing "team synergy" and all that, but isolated on their own, it's way easier to recover Health as a PLD/WAR so long as the PLD doesn't get interrupted which can happen but in general puts Drk behind them both.