Perma shelved my DRK: No role, no idenity, no lore, no worthwhile skills, no fun

[shao32]

Tanks were not balanced in SB, there was always the MT and OT issue, and in dungeons the differences and unbalance between tanks was gigantic
https://www.fflogs.com/zone/statisti...ps&class=Tanks
There were a ton of issues between tanks with Warrior and PLD having best single target dmg and best mitigation. At worst, DRK was doing 15% less single target damage than warrior.
The sustain between single and multi target was different between them too.

DPS jobs is a different story, because all what they have to do is to do damage and it is easier to balance than tank, which has to have some sort of sustain, have mitigation tools and damage skills and make them look and function different to each other but perform the same, this is a much harder job to do. So they decided to make tanks that way and not another.
Standard 1-2-3 combo, aoe combo, big deeps combo, range skill, dash, few deffensive CDs, Invulv skill, 1 party wide CD, thats it.

DRK has second in dps and best personal mitigation after 4.3, DRK only suffer lack of utility compared to the other 2, the other balance issues was only holmgang and the excesive amount of utility on PLD, they personal rotations and flows have nothing to do there since all of them do they job perfectly, the who pull drama end this expansion with the rework of tank stances so even less reasons to gutted DRK.

i dissagre DPS jobs are harder to balance bcs it's not only they personal damage, it's they utility and how affect the other 7 members of a raid, balance that it's way harder to prevent meta combs being overkill compared to the several party compositions you can have in the game, mitigation? there is no problem the only problem with mitigation was when they put PLD as physical king and DRK the magic tank with still currently is more or less while WAR was universal mitigation all around and that have been solved, the self sustain is pretty balanced right now and the utility more or less too and all of this have nothing to do with the dps rotation of the job so what they do it's just pure laziness and make DRK extremly easy probably just for being the poster boy as much.

[Absimiliard]

DRK has second in dps

No. No it does not. DRK is third place in DPS if it has access to the correct party buffs. If lacking those buffs, it falls to dead last. GNB and PLD have a steady lead in the damage category.

[shao32]

No. No it does not. DRK is third place in DPS if it has access to the correct party buffs. If lacking those buffs, it falls to dead last. GNB and PLD have a steady lead in the damage category.

I was talking about SB, betwen 4.3 and the end of the expansion not now.

[Shurrikhan]

No. No it does not. DRK is third place in DPS if it has access to the correct party buffs. If lacking those buffs, it falls to dead last. GNB and PLD have a steady lead in the damage category.

She specifically labelled the period of time in discussion -- post-4.3 SB, not now. If you can't read the whole first 10 words...