Quick Fix To Make Dark Knight more viable

[Isius]

Okay I hear you.

I agree, and I think several people on these forums agree that drk, and also pld lack useful raid utilities to give them a favorable "OT SLOT". Currently drk/pld are pigeoned holed into mainly mt roles just from the make up of thier classes drk with it's parry procs in Reprisal, and Blood Price to regen mp so you can smack boss face more, or whatever, and pld with it's shields needs to mt to take advantage of the way thier class is built.

Currently drk only has Delirium Blade as a ot, but pld has several cover, clemancy, divine veil, rage of halone, and stone skin as skills they can use as a ot, but a lot of these are situational, and lose favor just because the way current raids are design being dps checks, and magic dmg. It seems to me SE tried to make it where Pld can mt and ot but it fell short because of the current raid design.

But if you want it where Warrior is not always foreseen as a must tank in a raid group, then drk/pld comp needs to become just as viable as a drk/war comp in dps, and also bring different viable forms of raid utility.

If you boost drk dps more all you do is cement the drk/war comp, making warrior always a needed choice ot with the new LNC crossed classed skilled drk, and nothing would have change. but making the drk/war comp even stronger.

Edit:

Also currently my raid group has a drk/pld tank comp with me being the pld. Normally we change up who is mt during different encounters based on what we think is most beneficial at the time for the group, like I mostly tank everything solo in A2S, most the drk does is bring mobs to me for me to tank or tanks couple mobs during the whole encounter, or on A3S I let our drk start the pull to build up aggro, since pld aggro generation sucks compared to the other tanks, so we both can be in dps stance for the rest of the fight faster, and longer. I still do around 650dps turtling in shield oath or 1000dps in sword oath. Since drk/pld is not the normal comp you will have to make up your own tactics as a group as you go. If people say you need to play warrior because of reasons then maybe find a better more open minded group.