What's going to be the strength of Dark Knights now?

[Unsung_Wanderer]

I feel your concerns man I'm very worried for drk in 4.0 I said the same thing to my buddy but the truth is we cannot know till the patch comes out. For all we know everything will be fine but I totally can see why you are skeptical/nervous because honestly they really didn't show us much love in that live letter.

[SpookyGhost]

I feel your concerns man I'm very worried for drk in 4.0 I said the same thing to my buddy but the truth is we cannot know till the patch comes out. For all we know everything will be fine but I totally can see why you are skeptical/nervous because honestly they really didn't show us much love in that live letter.

If it helps, even if PLD is the new meta tank, DRK will still be able to reliably tank all the content in the game. As long as you find the job fun and you're good at it then there's nothing to worry about regardless.

[Jandor]

PLD was behind the other two due to a lack of DPS, a lack of AoE and a lack of magic damage mitigation.
These are all things DRK already has covered, even if they do end up a bit behind it's definitely only going to be a very tiny distance, they're definitely not going to be left with big gaps in their kit like PLD was.