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

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If you want to male claims about dps then use numbers. No one in thisnthread has actually shown any data to support the base claim that drk is bad at aoe damage vs other tanks.

If you use every action and ability on CD that is an aoe on drk pre 70 you end up with 93 potency per second.

Gcd 150/2.5. 60pps
Passive mp regen tics (15tics. 250pot) 16.66pps
CS 600mp/min 5.55pps
Salted 900pot/90sec. 10pps
AD 200ppt/min. 3.33 pps.
BW mp 200pot/min. 4.166pps
Bw blood. 1 quietus/min. 60pot over 150 gcd. 1pps

Total: 84.88 pps.
Darkside bonus 10%. 93.37pps.

War: same deal.
Gcd combo: 66pps
Infuriate. 1pps (becomes 1.416pps for decimate lv 60)
Total: 67pps (67.41 at 60)
Eye buff 10%. 73.7 pps (74.1 at 60)

Zerk is a little wierd because it depends on what gcds you use and crit gear, but if you just assume you are using everything on cd and it roughly doubles damage its a flat boost of 22.22% overall.
Zerk estimate 90.07pps (90.63pps at 60)

Wow. Much difference. Drk so gimp. War 90 vs drk 93 which is about the difference of using better gcds during zerk. If you want to look at other tanks rotations be my guest but ive made my point. Tank dps is VERY balanced at all stages right now. Single target. Aoe. While leveling. At cap. This is the most balanced offensive state tanks have ever been in.

The mp gain of 2nd combo alone is a 12 pps gain which is utterly massive when everones in the low 90s.

If you dont like the way a job feels to play, by all means dislike it. But dont just make wild unsubstantiated claims of imbalance balance because youre bored in a lv 55 dungeon on drk. This is not the 1st thread that just blindly claims drk aoe damage is sub par and needs mega buffing at low levels.

Drk has more aoe actions and ogcds to manage at low levels. I suspect that is why they limited it to 1 aoe gcd. Just look at the list of potencies. War has 2 gcds, infuriate and the gcd you get from infuriate. Thats it. Thats their dungeon play. Drk has 1 gcd and many ogcds, ground effect, etc to manage. So you want to talk about boring? Every tank is boring at low levels. Thats what we get with ability crunches.

Tldr: drk damage is perfectly fine. Every tank is slow and boring in low level dungeons.

1 Flood cost 3000/10000 MP.

And I play PLD,GNB. They're not slow and boring. I can spam AOE COMBO at no cost and kill all mob that stand in my path easily. Meanwhile DRK below Lv.72 is mp starving.