Tanks Advantage and Deficiencies

[Erim-Nelhah]

Burst AoE DPS goes to DRK very easily - as a DRK I can spam a 100-potency point-blank AoE for 15-20 seconds with just 3 mobs on me...With 4-5, I can position the mobs and swap to a 120-potency targeted aoe. With enough incoming attacks, some cooldowns, and a bit of healer coordination, A good DRK can even self-heal through the incoming damage, allowing the healer to go cleric stance and help burn down the pack.

--Erim Nelhah
(Master, Astral Descendants <AD>, Malboro)
(60 DRK Main)

[Ayuris]

Burst AoE DPS goes to DRK very easily - as a DRK I can spam a 100-potency point-blank AoE for 15-20 seconds with just 3 mobs on me...With 4-5, I can position the mobs and swap to a 120-potency targeted aoe. With enough incoming attacks, some cooldowns, and a bit of healer coordination, A good DRK can even self-heal through the incoming damage, allowing the healer to go cleric stance and help burn down the pack.

I disagree, decimation is 280 potency that can be used twice in succession with berserk(+50% attack power), overpowered is 120 potency aswell.

[Freyyy]

Yeah best AoE DPS is with no contest WAR. DRK is no match vs. Decimate/Steel Cyclone and Overpower spam.

[Madepossible]

Yeah best AoE DPS is with no contest WAR. DRK is no match vs. Decimate/Steel Cyclone and Overpower spam.

You must fail at your job then.

[Whiston]

You must fail at your job then.

Why is that qualifying them as a failure?
It's not surprising warrior does more aoe dps. Their skills have high potency and aren't so extremely limited in resource.

Warrior aoe dps is quite significant, whereas dark Knight has burst potential, but blood price is only up so often.

[Reynhart]

Yeah best AoE DPS is with no contest WAR. DRK is no match vs. Decimate/Steel Cyclone and Overpower spam.

Well, technically, spamming Overpower do more damage on several mobs than Steel Cyclone or Decimate, since you can't "spam" it.
While building Wrath stacks, you will only hit one mob.

So it's basically Overpower vs Unleash+Salted Earth
And on that, DRK wins

[Ayuris]

Well, technically, spamming Overpower do more damage on several mobs than Steel Cyclone or Decimate, since you can't "spam" it.
While building Wrath stacks, you will only hit one mob.

So it's basically Overpower vs Unleash+Salted Earth
And on that, DRK wins

Not necessarily, if you know when a wave of adds will spawn like in A2 you can have 5 stacks of wrath ready with an infuriate followup.
Warrior also have a dps stance were they are able to get 25% additional damage(20% from Maim and 5% from Deliverance) unlike Dark Knight that only gets 15% damage increase from Darkside.
And again I cannot stress enough how all this scales with Berserk when used correctly.

So it's not so cut and dried.

[Rover1983]

Burst AoE DPS goes to DRK very easily - as a DRK I can spam a 100-potency point-blank AoE for 15-20 seconds with just 3 mobs on me...With 4-5, I can position the mobs and swap to a 120-potency targeted aoe. With enough incoming attacks, some cooldowns, and a bit of healer coordination, A good DRK can even self-heal through the incoming damage, allowing the healer to go cleric stance and help burn down the pack.

--Erim Nelhah
(Master, Astral Descendants <AD>, Malboro)
(60 DRK Main)

Hah - I disagree with the a good dark can even self-heal through incoming damage. Yes we have siphons but nothing that will counter the damage we take. Not strong enough life siphons. Wish they healed for more. Right now they're negligible, especially in the higher end content. Even a DA + Abyssal doesn't do much because mobs hit harder then what we siphon