There's not much unique-ness when it comes to tank jobs, are there?

[Shurrikhan]

Your attitude is an absolute disgrace. Please quit, we don't need this type of toxicity in the game.

"I liked how it was before you changed it at the expense of veteran players who actually enjoyed the more complex mechanics" = so toxic they should quit?

Please tell me you're seeing the irony here...

The guy could make his point a whole lot less belligerently, but just the same, not liking the new version as much as the old is a valid opinion.

[Quri]

I haven't played WAR, since storm blood, so I forgot some of the skills name lol. Inner release was the skill I was talking about. Inner release mimics Resquiat now.

[Shurrikhan]

I haven't played WAR, since storm blood, so I forgot some of the skills name lol. Inner release was the skill I was talking about. Inner release mimics Resquiat now.

It... deals direct damage, requires that you have 80+% Beast Gauge to have any additional effect, and only affects two GCDs that are otherwise situational at best?

There are virtually no similarities between the two save that they are both buff CDs...

[MagiusNecros]

IR/Req/Del/Cont are all the same idea.

Just the Tanks burst phase.

They just function slightly different from each other.

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Also you can cry about TEH LORE in regards to Dark Knight but the lore has never gone into any detail whatsoever about the skills you learn and use at all. So TEH LORE is a shit answer.

[Absimiliard]

Also you can cry about TEH LORE in regards to Dark Knight but the lore has never gone into any detail whatsoever about the skills you learn and use at all. So TEH LORE is a shit answer.

DRK's lore is garbage anyway. Completely goes against the theme the job had in literally every other appearance.

[Lyth]

DRK is fairly widely regarded as having the best job storyline in this game bar none. So much so that the writer went on to write the main storyline for this expansion (which, in all fairness, could put a lot of main FF title storylines to shame).

I know that taste is a personal thing, but this is one of those situations where I just have to raise my eyebrows.

[gman1311]

DRK's lore is garbage anyway. Completely goes against the theme the job had in literally every other appearance.

Well this isn’t final fantasy(insert whatever number),it’s final fantasy 14, they can do whatever they want with the job.

[MagiusNecros]

DRK is fairly widely regarded as having the best job storyline in this game bar none. So much so that the writer went on to write the main storyline for this expansion (which, in all fairness, could put a lot of main FF title storylines to shame).

I know that taste is a personal thing, but this is one of those situations where I just have to raise my eyebrows.

Good storyline sure. As far as actual Dark Knight Lore? Its ass.

[Seku]

Well this isn’t final fantasy(insert whatever number),it’s final fantasy 14, they can do whatever they want with the job.

Like steal Rune Knights from FF11 and Celes job from FF6 identity and rename it into Dark Knight so that they can go "DA DERKNESSS DERKI DERK!". Like we're just missing Runic. All we'd really need to do is just allow Dark mind to recover some HP and maybe some MP when they are hit by a magical attack and we could just rename the skill.

To answer the OP though,

The differences lay in the effects of the abilities and that's probably what's making most of the community mad. Because most of the skills don't actually play into each other and there is almost no thought behind it.

[Absimiliard]

Good storyline sure. As far as actual Dark Knight Lore? Its ass.

The writer didn't get to do the lore, unfortunately. They were given what SE already had and told to write within those constraints for DRK. How they managed to take such awful lore and turn it into a great job story is beyond me, but more power to'em. The story itself is great. Ditto for Shadowbringers so far.