Quote Originally Posted by ADVSS View Post
That DA - AD with BP in 3.0 was sick for mass pulls, when it was valid to them. But in a single target scenario, DRK has always been the lowest tier. It simply shouldnt be their identity at all, or ever, in any FF considering besides SoulEater. that is their only other trait. In FFXIV? Apparently DRK has to be the most dependant tank on healers, for virtually anything, even their ultimate. For reasons. Now maybe in the past our word "sustainablity" got mixed up with "MP sustain", but thats never what I meant when using the term. Dunno about everybody else. Pretty sure we were all on the same page though.
I think, in big pulls if you manage your TBN properly you can sustain yourself for quite some time with abyssal drain being 200 healing potency per target and a 60sec cooldown. But in big pulls (if you are not overlv) every tank will have trouble without healer.

About single target I think DRK will have more self-healing than other tanks we can check parses when content releases, that is due to souleater combo being the only combo the DRK will use in non-burst phases. But I can say for sure that for single target DRK sustainability got way better than 4.x