Quote Originally Posted by Fiaryn View Post
A fairly quick and simple explanation of why this thinking is backwards and objectively incorrect.

You're playing a Dark Knight. One Dark Arts boosted Power Slash is generally enough to hold threat for the entire fight if you're equivalently geared to the rest of your party.

What, precisely, are you doing with the rest of the fight then? Because if it's not "optimizing your damage while rotating cooldowns appropriately", you're a bad Dark Knight and you're wasting everyone's time.

Edit: A tank that's actually doing good DPS can be worth as much as 70% of another DPS class, to give you an idea how much this can bring to the table.
My response would then be SE didn't design the fight appropriately to the point where you have to focus just on hate management, or they lower the amount you make. I don't want to diverge this topic much anymore though from its original goal. I just wanted to state my peace, and that was it.

For your edit, a tank shouldn't be doing that much dmg. Increase the dps for dps classes then if that push is needed.