A challenge to Naoki "Yoshi-P" Yoshida

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I would say self heals on DRK are way better. I watch DRK's struggle in dungeons but as soon as they Optimize their buffs then DRK is very self sustaining. Now Raids may be a difference but still DASE is a nice self heal that is every 3 GCD's which is better than the other tanks.

That self heal is only available in tank stance but it is players pushing the meta that we should stay in DPS stance not the way the class is designed.

It's not better than war as storm's path self heal is active outside of defiance. DRK has a really nice self heal for aoe situations in DAAD, but if we're talking about tank stance then DRK is still pretty far behind because war has Inner Beast, Steel Cyclone and Equilibirum for self-heals in tank stance, along with the storm's path self heal, and even Thrill of Battle if it's not being used to buff Upheaval.

So both playing in or out of tank stance doesn't matter, DRK is relatively behind. 1 heal out / 2 heals in (tank stance). War as 1 heal out / 4 in (2/5 if we count TOB). PLD just has Clemency, which is obviously powerful, but comes at an expense of damage output which the other tanks don't necessarily have to worry about (with regards to self-healing). Though it's not technically a self-heal, I would say there is a significant edge to TBN, as shielding damage outright is always preferred to healing up damage taken.