Dear Square-Enix: You Forgot About Buffs to Dark Knight's Off-Tank Utility.

[Brian_]

You're still failing to make me understand how Delirium alone is considered adequate OT utility. Its a fact that the jobs OT utility is crap compared to the other tanks. It needs a buff. How anyone could argue the contrary, I'm not following.

Dragon Kick alone was enough to make MNK mandatory for all of 2.X. That was despite NIN and DRG being higher DPS.

Again, one raid tier was enough to make everyone forget a year+ of raiding meta.

And, one patch is also apparently enough to make everyone forget reality. PLD utility? What utility? DV is their only high impact utility. Stoneskin is good but nobody has ever considered bringing PLD because of Stoneskin. RoH is mediocre because strength down is just not that useful. Clemency is not suddenly good now that it is 1 second faster to cast. Cover has always been very very rarely useful.

On the flip-side, Delirium was the entire reason NIN DRG melee comps became a thing. Delirium caused a job to go from mandatory in progression to being the red-headed stepchild of melee DPS jobs. I would call that pretty damn impactful. Ask all the unemployed or converted MNKs if they think Delirium isn't a big deal.

The reality is again, MT and OT does not matter. The two roles swap constantly in content. What matters is overall raid comp balance. You cannot throw off overall raid balance just to give DRKs more OT utility. If you want to make this argument, then provide an easily implemented and balanced way to increase DRK's OT utility while not impacting overall raid balance. I doubt you can.