Dark Knight : Just another mitigation tank

[Einheri]

Defiance = shield oath = grit. They extend the tanks effective health pool the same. Pld has no reason to gear differently than a warrior. Parry and block are useless vs magic damage and unavoidable special attacks.

Parry as a stat is the least useful to pld because of how the avoidance rolls in the game work. You roll for hit. Success then rolls for block. No block then rolls for parry. So if you have 15% block and 15% parry chance the rolls reduce your effective parry to 12.5%

15000 hp tank
15000 damage tank kill

Pld/drk 15000 - (15000*.8)= 3k hp
War (15000*1.25)-15000=3750 hp

Pld dark needs 12k heals to get back to full
War need 15000
12000*1.2= 14400 (I inner beast will put you over)

Inner beast is a parallel to block not rampart. The 2.1 change to it was a net nerf to a reactive mitigation skill. In trade for consistency and better performance in groups.

The problem with leech tanks is thier scaling. They only way to fix that is to make the heals scale to damage taken instead of damage output. Then it just becomes a delayed visual on straight mitigation.