Why are Darks considered "Parry" tanks?

[Hundred]

I mean look, the only reason people call them magic defense tanks is because of Dark Mind....a 15-30% magic reduction for 10sec on a 1min timer.

Really? ONE skill that affects only magic damage and they are suddenly a magic defense tank?

In a world of
Rampart to Shadowskin
Sentinel to Shadow Wall
Bulwark (physical) to Dark Dance (physical/both)
Shelltron (physical) to Dark Mind (Magical).
It's obvious to see why Drk is considered the magical defense tank, because what deviates them from PLD in mitigation is when Drk gets more tools against magical damage but is unquestionably lacking compared to PLD in physical, partially because Pld has cooldowns that are.....physical damage only. The sole exception being Sentinels extra 10% which does not outweigh Dark Minds contribution (especially with it being on a third of the cooldown)
Who would've thought.

[dragoelete]

In a world of
Rampart to Shadowskin
Sentinel to Shadow Wall
Bulwark (physical) to Dark Dance (physical/both)
Shelltron (physical) to Dark Mind (Magical).
It's obvious to see why Drk is considered the magical defense tank, because what deviates them from PLD in mitigation is when Drk gets more tools against magical damage but is unquestionably lacking compared to PLD in physical, partially because Pld has cooldowns that are.....physical damage only. The sole exception being Sentinels extra 10% which does not outweigh Dark Minds contribution (especially with it being on a third of the cooldown)
Who would've thought.

you are forgetting delirium...

[Timat]

In a world of
Rampart to Shadowskin
Sentinel to Shadow Wall
Bulwark (physical) to Dark Dance (physical/both)
Shelltron (physical) to Dark Mind (Magical).
It's obvious to see why Drk is considered the magical defense tank, because what deviates them from PLD in mitigation is when Drk gets more tools against magical damage but is unquestionably lacking compared to PLD in physical, partially because Pld has cooldowns that are.....physical damage only. The sole exception being Sentinels extra 10% which does not outweigh Dark Minds contribution (especially with it being on a third of the cooldown)
Who would've thought.

There is no "tools" though....its tool...singular...one....thats it.

If you say something is a magic damage tank I would expect at least 2/3 things they can do that directly relate to magic damage reduction or something that others cannot.

[Dererk]

Makes perfect sense, they don't have a shield to mitigate damage like Paladins do.

your post is flawed because DRK don't get a shield to so no it makes no sense wars get a boost in it.

[spelley]

your post is flawed because DRK don't get a shield to so no it makes no sense wars get a boost in it.

Non-shield-using tanks (ie: everyone but PLD) have options to buff their passive mitigation. The 10% at Wrath V also doesn't honestly matter that much because they almost never SIT at Wrath V for any length of time. In practice, WAR gets a tiny bonus mitigation as they build up Wrath right before spending it again/switching to Deliverance. Their average Parry boost is probably somewhere near 4% counting swaps/expenditures/slow build. DRK has procs off of it and have a larger spike of Parry (more useful) "on-demand." 30% with a 33% uptime.

[praysolace]

And it makes no sense that wars get a boost in it.

We didn't until Heavensward. We got a crit bonus with Wrath stacks in Defiance. They wanted to give us something defensive for Defiance now that we have Deliverance also, and I guess Parry seemed like the only choice they could go with, since a straight defensive buff would've been too powerful (not to mention encroached on Paladin territory). They originally gave us a boost to an RNG-based offensive stat; now they give us a boost to an RNG-based defensive stat, so as to make the difference between Deliverance and Defiance more pronounced.

Parry is still super meh to Warriors, but I see the logic they used to choose it, even if nobody was super thrilled about it.

[Kuwagami]

And it makes no sense that wars get a boost in it.

WARs had no real "on demand" defensive cooldowns. IB is nice but requires timing because it's on GCD. Having passive parry (not even close to 10% if you're a good WAR, over a whole fight), as well as a parry CD, gives us a 20-27% damage reduction cooldown when we need one.

[Hundred]

There is no "tools" though....its tool...singular...one....thats it.

If you say something is a magic damage tank I would expect at least 2/3 things they can do that directly relate to magic damage reduction or something that others cannot.

Are you getting into a battle of semantics?
When we say magical damage tank we don't mean all it does is magical damage, they lean towards magical damage because their coverage of magical damage is stronger, as PLD's coverage of physical damage is stronger.
The quantity of options is irrelevant +1 or -1 is all that is needed to skew a scale.

[Rbstr]

There is no "tools" though....its tool...singular...one....thats it.

If you say something is a magic damage tank I would expect at least 2/3 things they can do that directly relate to magic damage reduction or something that others cannot.

The only real difference in applicability between the 100% reliable CDs the tank classes have are Raw Intuition/Shelltron being physical and Dark Mind being magical. If that's not "Magic Specialization", on top of brining the int-down debuff....

Dark Mind clearly gives DRKs a massive advantage in dealing with Magic damage, 30% on a 60 second cooldown is stronger than any other CD against magic by a lot.

[PWilson]

Parry seems to have taken a nerf sometime in the recent past... And I think it's pretty plain that WAR needs a nerf. Just -wee- too jack-of-all-trades-y.

But Dark Dance is supposed to be the DRK 'default' mitigation CD. And it interacts with Reprisal. That's why they are the "parry" tanks.