Quote Originally Posted by VthMillion View Post
Hi,

Honestly, I'd like and preferred Drk to be buffed only in the amount of HP for Soul Eater. It would be what separates it from the other Tanks as right now the small amount of HP that Dark Knight regains can't really compare to Warrior's Heals.

When Ultimate Bahamut came out and was downed by the JP server people. All the JPs and us here could not understand why everyone was freaking out over a Drk being in the team com to down it. Over here, Drk is preferred over other Tanks for MT simply due to their higher Magic Resist. I would guess its probably the different mentality of the different regions?

As for DPS-wise, maybe the Dark Knight's DPS can remain the same as compensation for the increased amount of HP they get from Soul Eater. Making them to be more of a sustain tank that can really hold the ground when a healer is down without popping immunity. Anyways, at the rate things are going, Drk will not be receiving any changes for a very very long time.
This isn't really a thread for defending the proposition that dark knight is in a weaker position than the other two tanks, but I'll quickly list a few reasons.

1) Dark Mind is typically quoted as powerful mitigation (and the source of what you call dark knights higher magic resist), but it is a 15% magic defense up, the nature of defensive increases is that it is mitigating less damage than actual mitigation. At max gear this works out to be 16% mitigation right now for magic only damage. Raw Intuition is a 100% parry rate on warrior, mitigates only physical damage, has a higher up time and mitigates 20% of the damage. Bulwark on paladin mitigates all damage, has half the uptime of dark mind and raw intuition, a random element since it increases block rate by 60%, and mitigates 26% of damage blocked, clearly not something to depend on for a buster (RNG) but on fluff damage you can expect about the same mitigation potential as raw intuition since block is higher mitigation and you can potentially block all damage types.

Conclusion, if you want dark mind to mitigate a buster you should pair it with something otherwise you may find yourself falling short. To mitigate an attack with only Dark Mind you might pair it with either dark arts (32% mitigation) or The Blackest Night (which is better depends on how much damage is incoming but it is usually better to pair with the blackest night). Dark Mind can be powerful but usually requires giving up something in addition. However, this isn't a deal breaker.

2) The more serious issue with dark knight is that it is currently the only tank which doesn't bring a method of dealing with raid wide damage, both paladin and warrior do. Pair this with its below average dps and we have a recipe for dark knight falling out of favor.

As more people have cleared savage it is beginning to paint a negative picture for dark knight, which is currently 12% behind warrior damage.