Have Tanks been dumbed down to much?

[Inuk9]

So the complexity comes from squeezing out as much damage as possible? I mean yeah that’s fine and dandy for a little while, but it’s not exactly rocket science and I feel like any half decent tank will be able to get a good grip on something like this quite quickly (but maybe I’m putting too much in your general tank)considering how simple the tool kit is now. And by buff period are talking DRKs personal buff personal (Delirium) or more in a raid setting (such as when a ninja is present as you mentioned)?

Honestly? I liked the “mash as fast as possible” approach that DRK took last expansion (though I still prefer the HW iteration more). It was fast, slick, and it felt good to hit that haste period during a boss fight to really crank out the damage. Overall it just felt different to what the other two tanks were doing at the. I would also disagree that it was easier to manage your MP, sure it came in faster but we also had a lot more skills to dump that MP into which could then be further buffed by using Dark Arts which also used a good chunk of MP. To offset this we had skills like Blood Price and Blood Weapon that could be used in tandem with it all to help us sustain all of it. It was a dance I rather enjoyed (one that SB helped start tearing apart).

What other aspects am I ignoring exactly? The main hook of DRK now is using delirium for a burst window with blood spilled, just like Warrior does with its skill and fell cleave. We build a gage to dump said gage into a DPS move just like Warrior. What happened to Dark Dance and OG reprisal? What happened to the dance we did with Blood Price during big pulls or Blood Weapon during boss fights? TBN is just about the only original skill (though it’s an amazing skill tbh) I feel we have at this point besides Living Dead. And honestly I don’t consider Edge and Flood new either, they’re just replacing and function similar to the old Dark Passenger/Dark Arts combo that was prevalent in HW. I will concede though that I do like how TBN can proc a free Edge or Flood. And to say we’re more complex than Warrior isn’t exactly hard anymore as from what I’ve heard it was dumbed down greatly compared to before.

As a foot note I’d like to add that I personally miss haste and miss more than one combo.

If it is not rocket science, why can't you do it?