Is Drk ok or should I level Pld? (also one other tank question)

[Jandor]

Pffft, you mean Paladins offer a nice comfy blanket and some coco for people who need their noses wiped for them. Pick a warrior if you're hanging out with MEN (Or some extremely violent WOMEN) and you want to have fun.

I'd have thought the deluge of Warrior tears back at Stormbloods release would have killed this extreme MAN mode meme.

You guys handled your nerfing in 4.0 with all the manliness of a toddler .

[Azerhan]

I was sub DRK in Heavensward, but not anymore in Stormblood.

But first of all, anything can be played with the DRK. Anything. If you want to play DRK, so go playing DRK.

On the other hand, DRK is the worst tank between the three. Less CDs, and surely the worst rotation (very easy and quite always the same).

[Renryuu]

Hello, so I finally managed to get Pld to 60 and I find that I'm enjoying it just as much as I do Drk (in some ways a tad more since I'm not dealing with Dark Arts lol). Also I notice something of an oddity with myself. Usually when I try to level melee dps, I struggle to do so and most often give up on leveling them in favor of going back to a caster job. Same with Brd and Mch, always ditching them to go back to Smn (and Rdm when it first came out). However when it comes to tanks, I can level them up with no problem and even enjoy the process. Paladin was the only tank that I couldn't level for a long while and that was because it always felt too simple to me in the early levels. Also when it comes to playing melee, I'd much prefer and very much enjoy being one of the tanks over being a melee dps. Heck, I could even see myself giving up my casters in favor of tanking. It's just so weird to me that I would always go for a dps job and be afraid of tanking and yet now it's tanking that I'm starting to enjoy more and the whole dps racing that I dislike.

[Derio]

I am playing DRK in SB, however I only run lvl 70 content on my DRK. For any content under lvl 70 such as leveling roulettes, mentor roulette, trials roulette, etc. I use PLD, this is due to the defensive kit for DRK being far behind the other 2 tanks in content outside of lvl70. Even at lvl70 PLD's kit is far superior and has better DPS. But I prefer DRK because that is my favorite job to play.

[Thoosa]

I levelled all tanks but find Dark Knight the most fun for some reason, followed by Warrior and then Paladin.

[winsock]

If you like the idea, theme, and feel of DRK more than PLD, play DRK.

DRK is a bit behind PLD and WAR at the moment, but isn't horribly far behind and is completely viable for all content.

If you do want to constantly play the meta tanks, you will need to level all of them anyway, including DRK, because the balance is subject to change

[Warrlordd]

One of the glaring problems with DRK is that it just doesn't suit the meta of this tier. Who knows, maybe next tier will sport tank buster magic dmg constantly throughout all 4 instances? That would be nice.

[Chrono_Rising]

One of the glaring problems with DRK is that it just doesn't suit the meta of this tier. Who knows, maybe next tier will sport tank buster magic dmg constantly throughout all 4 instances? That would be nice.

Even with this sheltron does it better more frequently. It would have to be multi hit tank busters spaced a minute apart with a duration of less than 10 seconds. That is dark knights mitigation niche lol

[hynaku]

I would go pld over drk. Drk just don't hold agro as well as Pld does in large pulls. See them always loosing agro and mobs attacking my summoner all the time when there doing a large pull. Never seen once a Pld loose agro.

[armandojc3]

Pffft, you mean Paladins offer a nice comfy blanket and some coco for people who need their noses wiped for them. Pick a warrior if you're hanging out with MEN (Or some extremely violent WOMEN) and you want to have fun.

f yes!!!!!!! lol