Quote Originally Posted by Hierro View Post
Even excluding IR hexadecimate, can you name a tank with better AoE capability? You can't! DRK's limited by grit in order to use BP and delirium, and the most PLD can achieve is FoF with their own eclipse spam which is still considerably weaker since it doesn't benefit from sword oath's bonus, and FoF is all they get.

WAR will always have eye+zerk for their OP spam, along with at least one decimate/steel cyclone, and of course you can always use more than one gauge AoE. But that alone is enough to make WAR that great, especially when you consider their mitigation is on par with every other tank.
One minor nitpick: Delirium isn't locked behind Grit, and I wouldn't use it on BP either way. Unless the DPS are pants-on-head bad most things are gonna die in one BP activation + dropping grit and popping BW to clean up the remainder.


That said, now that Quietus has Blood Weapon baked in(mp restore on hit regardless of grit) I'd say DRK still has the edge overall vs WAR in practicality. Bubble pops and quietus spam bring back HW style MP overflow and even with the nerfs to DA-AD, a 1.2-1.5k heal per target per GCD is significant until >3 mobs.