Quote Originally Posted by Faytte View Post
You have 2 normal damage reducers (like other tanks) and 1 that has a TINY cooldown (1 minute!) and you can throw it ontop of the other two in any magic damage content to pad your health. Dark Dance is less powerful than bulwark but lasts 5 more seconds and has one third the cd.

Basically Dark Knight is not about having tons of cooldowns like a paladin, but having good ones that are up very often.
They have good mitigation vs. magic, mostly because of DA + Drk Mnd, but they're a little lacking vs. physical. The problem with dark dance is it's both not all that strong and completely unreliable. With bulwark, the boost to block % is high enough such that you can pretty much count on blocking or parrying any incoming attack when it's active. Of course, if you really need to block something, they also now have sheltron every 30s, drk has no equivalent.

Dark dance is just fairly weak at about a 6% average damage reduction. It's only really useful vs. large groups of enemies or to get a reprisal proc.