Dark knight

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You make great points Syz. I agree that while in the MT slot DRK has the potential to match or supersede WAR in dps. I was under the impression we were only talking about DRK OT dps? If DRKs OT dps is behind by a small margin then I would anticipate the gains from Reprisal, Low Blows and Blood Price would bridge or supersede that gap. I think where we are really in disagreement is that gap. You think it is negligible and I tend to think it is greater than negligible.

I agree with you that some of the numbers on FFlogs are corrupted by player practices, but are you really going to make the blanket statement that all of the data contained there is useless in this regard? That seems to me a bit more extreme than being suspicious of how exactly SSS works. The common knowledge is and has been that WAR does more dps than DRK when relegated to the OT slot. Further, there is data and collective experience to back that notion up. I guess i'm not prepared to throw all that to wind over SSS?

As a side note, I genuinely hope I have not come across as hostile to you or DRK in general. Even if I am correct and DRK is behind WAR in OT dps I don't think anything is wrong with DRK or that it needs to be fixed in any way. Especially "fixes" designed to compensate for player's lack of skill. I respect you greatly for what you have done here on the forums especially regarding DRK. When I came back to the game after a long break and started maining DRK, yours is the guide I learned from and where I teach others from. I say that, to say I understand your displeasure when ppl underestimate or wrongfully talk down DRK. Thats not my intent at all, rather just an intellectual exercise in theory vs practice.