The Point of DRKness

[Syzygian]

This entire notion that is being perpetuated that DRK is bad anywhere outside of Alex Savage is complete garbage as is the notion that if they buff PLD's damage (PLD is getting adjustments but I highly doubt this means a DPS boost up to DRK/WAR levels... it doesn't make any sense from a design perspective) DRK will be obsolete.

I've offered to go PLD for certain fights for my raid group, and they've all chanted "NO" at the top of their lungs. The fact is DRK proved itself as a tank in the most difficult tier of raids the dev team has put out to date, and they've come right out and said it'll never be that hard again for the foreseeable future. People like to say "oh well its only because blah blah all the fights are magical..." bullshit. A2S was almost 100% physical, A3S for all intents and purposes was 100% physical as well with the sole exception of drainage tethers.

I hope PLD gets some nice buffs too but its a far cry from rendering DRK obsolete. Its an entirely different tank with different utilities. If anything I would hope the pally buffs can make the DRK/PLD comp feasible.

[AlexiIvaniskavich]

This entire notion that is being perpetuated that DRK is bad anywhere outside of Alex Savage is complete garbage as is the notion that if they buff PLD's damage (PLD is getting adjustments but I highly doubt this means a DPS boost up to DRK/WAR levels... it doesn't make any sense from a design perspective) DRK will be obsolete.

I've offered to go PLD for certain fights for my raid group, and they've all chanted "NO" at the top of their lungs. The fact is DRK proved itself as a tank in the most difficult tier of raids the dev team has put out to date, and they've come right out and said it'll never be that hard again for the foreseeable future. People like to say "oh well its only because blah blah all the fights are magical..." bullshit. A2S was almost 100% physical, A3S for all intents and purposes was 100% physical as well with the sole exception of drainage tethers.

When we were first working on ThorEx, I rolled both DRK and PLD. I asked the healers which class they liked better for dealing with the damage. The answer was a resounding "meh". There wasn't really any difference in their eyes. I ended up staying as PLD on that fight for 2 reasons 1) I was rolling as DRK on almost all other Raid content, and 2) We PUG ThorEx more often, and I like to roll in there on the weakest class (based on damage output) because I do bring the damage, and it is a nice reminder that PLD's can do reasonable damage.