Blood Price feels underwhemling

[Phoenicia]

Most of this is historically inaccurate. You didn't take DRK into raid in HW because of mitigation. You took it because WAR/DRK offered higher raid dps than WAR/PLD or DRK/PLD. You'd still generally take it into a fight where DRK was at a mitigation disadvantage (i.e. any physical fight), as long as you could compensate with smart use of defensive cooldowns, because it offered higher raid dps than PLD. The exception was on fights like A7S prog, where PLD's defensive advantages and the fact that LD is a liability in that fight tipped the balance in favour of PLD/WAR.

I don't know what you mean by "inaccurate" as that's literally what I said in my post:

...But because of the massive DPS it gained from nigh infinite MP from BP + BW access along Reprisal and Low Blows procs which DRK completely loses access to in the OT position.

The mitigation part was mentioned because a lot of people have false understanding on how tanks' mitigation works.

Unless you're talking about Shield Swipe being a 3.5 PPM, yes, I was wrong, it's 7 as the CD is 15s, not 30s.

The point of my post is that SE is trying to shift away from tanks gaining DPS just by getting hit, which would encourage certain tanks to want to MT in DPS stance just because it's more DPS even when it's detrimental to the group.... Exactly like how DRK was in HW. You drop Grit because it's bad, you have excess MP from BP + BW which meant more DAs to spend on everything.

I could be slightly off with numbers and I didn't go into the detail you went in with TBN because it's not the topic of this thread. I know proper usage of TBN "can" net you damage gain (or loss, yes I know). What is "proper" usage is not the scope of this topic. But the point, again, is that TBN is not there so you can just get more DPS and as such you stand in AoE and pop it even as OT because you get more DPS by getting hit, which goes with the whole philosophy of none of the three tanks gains DPS by taking hits all the time.

~ Phoenicia ~