Dark Knight : Just another mitigation tank

[Wavaryen]

Op your points are well made. I agree with you, and find it funny people always complain about wow like the ideas wow come up with is a bad thing.

[Niyuka]

Op your points are well made. I agree with you, and find it funny people always complain about wow like the ideas wow come up with is a bad thing.

Actually drain tanking isnt WOWs idea. They just badly copied it. It existed before (hey EverQuest), and as well as drainhealing (hey EverQuest or Vanguard) it is hard to balance because it has to scale with MOB damage, not with the tanks damage, in order to work even remotely. You ll notice how it didnt work well in WoW either, because it basically really had to be balanced around the current mainstream content, and was always broken in anything below that.

I am not happy with the weak performance of the DRK, but leech tanking has been done before, and so far nobody made it work for more than a small sliver of content.
I d thus venture a guess and say its probably not worth the effort.