DRK do you wish you get Stalwart Soul at LV45 like the rest of the tanks?

[Izsha]

So let me get this straight. It's perfectly fine for DRK to mash a single button along with the occasional oGCD on trash pulls for the vast majority of its leveling experience while simultaneously being weaker defensively than the other tanks until it finally gets TBN. Also, your own numbers indicate that DRK has slightly less AoE DPS. It doesn't get Salted Earth for quite a while either.

Moving goalposts much? You said aoe was weaker. I pointed out that it wasnt. Now you are talking about boring (which i already pointed out before you anyway) and trash pull defenses.

I did not make a statement on that. Just responded to your innacurate claim that drk needs stalwart soul to do more aoe damage because it would actually jump drk WAY up in aoe damage pre 70 when it was already fine there due to everything i pointed out above.

So dont putt words in my mouth. I never made any claim beyond what i said and one of those is agreeing with you. 1 gcd is boring, but that doesnt make it weak.

[Absimiliard]

Moving goalposts much? You said aoe was weaker. I pointed out that it wasnt. Now you are talking about boring (which i already pointed out before you anyway) and trash pull defenses.

I did not make a statement on that. Just responded to your innacurate claim that drk needs stalwart soul to do more aoe damage because it would actually jump drk WAY up in aoe damage pre 70 when it was already fine there due to everything i pointed out above.

So dont putt words in my mouth. I never made any claim beyond what i said and one of those is agreeing with you. 1 gcd is boring, but that doesnt make it weak.

No one put words in your mouth. Keep the conversation civil. I asserted that you are mistaken. The numbers corroborate the assertion that you are mistaken, though I have already conceded that the difference isn't that large. The mention of its weaker defensives is a secondary argument relating to this fact by way of implying that DRK should be compensated for this. If it is going to have marginally weaker AoE than the other tanks whilst leveling, then it should not have considerably weaker defenses while leveling. Simple logic.

The issue of balance caused by introducing Stalwart Soul earlier could be addressed by either removing the MP regen from it or making Flood of Darkness weaker. They could then introduce a trait that would restore Flood of Darkness/Shadow to its original full strength when appropriate.