Core Issues With 4.x Dark Knight

[Reynhart]

At low percentiles, your argument implies that groups are aware of the fact that DRK is a poor OT.

Even when WAR was the absolute king of the hill, basic mentality was that WAR was an OT. It was wrong even during 2.1 onwards, yet it had a hard time dying. As for PLD, sure, it was THE MT back in 2.x, but great marketing has been made in SB to promote Intervention and the new Cover, leading to a more blurry role. As for DRK, with the heavy magic content in HW, it was also a very common choice as a MT, and at low level, the trend probably just stick.

So I'd say it's less awareness that bad habit.

Bad players are also probably just as likely to believe TBN is valuable raid utility and relegate their DRK to OT-TBN spam. There's frankly no way of knowing what goes through these players minds. Its pure speculation. What isn't is the data.

Or they could think BloodSpiller is so powerful that it's a neat DPS increase to spam TBN anytime you can just to proc it...