Dark Knight : Just another mitigation tank

[Omskahn]

This is a problem.

What's really annoying is people bringing up WoW for every single inference made about anything.

WAR and PLD currently are very different in how they go about doing the same thing - being effective at tanking. It's crazy how often people mention WoW for every single example of something that's been tried before. WoW has to balance classes with 3 different specs each, for both pvp and pve therefore trying to cater a much larger pool of interests.

Do NOT begin to tell me that a tank CANNOT be distinct because of balance issues. WAR operates different from PLD. SCH different from WHM. NIN different from MNK. Because you can't wrap you're head around it means it should'nt even be discussed or attempted? I don't think that's right.

Let me ask you, If DRG and MNK were the only two melee classes, would you suggest that NIN shouldn't be added because it would cause cherry picking? Has that happened, Are DRGs forced to play all 3 mdps? I mean there are things that NIN can do that the others can't? Does a BLM need to level SMN even though their playstlyes are nothing alike?

The point is there are different routes to fulfill the same objectives. The classes don't have to to be totally insular, no one is asking for that. Trying to make DRK have it's own more distinct identity isn't even a challenge, its a choice of whether to just do it or not.