Quote Originally Posted by Hierro View Post
I think removing the grit requirements on a heal would be OP. Currently, DRK has no issue healing for 5k per DASE combo while in grit. Imagine tacking on an extra 20% in healing. That would push healing to practically 10% of our HP every combo. For context, WAR's Storm's Path combos heals for about 2k for each path combo, and that's not spammed repeatedly. This proposed DRK heal would be nearly half of what a Clemency can do, and PLD has to use an entire GCD and resources that set back its DPS for it.

DRK just isn't bad. It's not the highest DPS, and doesn't offer two AoE shields, but it doesn't need to either when it's come as far as it has, and especially during a time when tank DPS has never been so close together as before. I'm sorry you don't like objective evidence when it comes to evaluating a class.
I am not sure whether your post was ironic on purpose or not. If yes, you forgot "/s", and if not, you totally proved WhyAmIHere's point.

You just said "that would be OP" without suggesting any other solution, or even going into detail. You even claimed DRK "isn't bad" when the job is - without a doubt - underperforming. And saying "it's fine" 'cause they have "never been so close [...] as before" is like saying "I broke my leg once, you just strained yours this time, so it's fine." It's not fine!

Fact: DRK DPS is closer to PLD DPS, it's neither higher nor lower in general. And while their self-mitigation tool kit might be on par, PLD provides more utility. In self-healing and mitigation it's on par with WAR (WAR heals with SP, DRK has TBN; no tank stance), but DRK suffers from having (way) less DPS. DRK also has the highest skill ceiling of all tanks, which means DRK gets even worse than the other tanks when played on lower skill level. And even when played on high skill, it still doesn't exceed the other tanks in any aspect.

Now b@Souleater, Souleater life leech without Grit on 100%/~88% would indeed too strong. But changing it to 50%/~44% without Grit, while 100%/~88% with Grit would be at least a start. Yes, DRK uses Souleater more frequently than WAR uses Storm's Path, but WAR has more DPS than DRK. That will balance it.