Interesting Tank Research

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/sigh. Or you could read the article and see that it is actually a very nuanced set of observations. Some support the 'common sense' of this forum, but there is a great deal that do not and challenge the common beliefs and stereotypes of each tank.

But nah. Lets just post 1 liner and pretend it will magically capture a complex subject to get everyone riled up instead actually learning something based on data.

No, it doesn't. That thread was trashed for that exact reason.

The post basically says, if you'd read it, that DRK performs only marginally worse than PLD and WAR at top end content and significantly worse than the other tanks for the majority of players.


It also compares cooldown usage amongst the tanks and reveals that in their "random" sampling (again, how can it really be random when he admits his bias in literally the first paragraph) that despite similar (lack of) cooldown usage, DRK takes more damage. It even says raid shielding is useless because they're used improperly.

More importantly it actually misses the true problems with Dark Knight. Dark Knight has no problem clearing content. The problems are (A) it has a lower baseline and (B) it plays like chocobo dung. DRK being played optimally still doesn't mitigate or deal as much damage as the other tanks and the post acknowledges this. And most DRKs arent even complaining about performance. They're complaining that the entire playstyle from HW, high APM, was removed. It's literally just spamming Dark Arts now.

TLDR - The post says "DRK has fewer tools than the other tanks, but this is okay, because the other tanks don't use their tools".

Which is obviously completely nonsense.

He blames the players for not using cooldowns, and then ignores that equivalent WAR/PLD are still performing at a higher level.

Check Bokchoy's post. Most aren't willing to repeat this same "debate".