Warrior and Dark Knight's Predicament

[millktea]

I'm not talking about what was I'm talking about what is now as it stands the tanks are more balanced then they ever have been no longer are you pigeon holding a WAR for slashing or because of how it has Unchained, how back in HW PLD was only good in physical encounters and suffered in magical. What I'm talking about is right now as of this moment bringing any tank doesn't hinder you at all period, sure some have god support like PLD with Cover/Intervention/Divine Veil doesn't mean that bringing a DRK for example is gonna hinder you because you don't have Intervention its nice to have.

I don't NEED to play GNB or NEED to play PLD because they're the 2 best tanks I play what I want to play because I enjoy playing DRK and my buddy who I raid with enjoys playing WAR that's why both of us play either, just because people aren't happy with DRK or WAR doesn't mean they're not fun and you can't dictate what I wanna play.

I was talking about now, and it does explain it in the entire post. they are not balanced now, but you chose to only quote some of my post. slashing alone is not what caused warrior to be required, as samurai and ninja exist, and with the changes in stormblood, it wasnt even an issue for ninja to put it up. at that point, that is an issue with RESISTANCES not the tanks. Unchained isn't what made war required either. unchained wasn't used in Deltascape and War is pulled and MTed.

while no slashing caused the other two tanks to do 10% less damage, the issue was more along the lines of that dark knight was a hinderance to the party. it didn't offer anything. while tbn is good, it did not outdo cover or intervention and it's cost of resource was higher and it wasn't free at all. to get any sort of dps gain with tbn, you had to really know every gcd and every auto attack from the boss and know what would break it. dark had no party mitigation nor utility at all. and even now, yes, they do hinder the party compared. LD is still trash. dark can ONLY mitigate magical raid wide with a shield while the other tanks can do all damage. dark doesn't have the utility that pld brings and nor does it have the cd mitigation that war and gnb have. and DM cannot compare with SIO. you just admitted that pld as "god mode" support, which already shows you admitted that they are not balanced, and yet pld does more damage than dark who has less utility. bringing your dark knight over the pld is a rDPS loss because it requires more healing and mitigation, which means less healer dps. healing isnt "free". healers also have gcd that they could be using and that still holds today.


you liking a job or having FUN with the other tanks DOES NOT they are BALANCED. dark was fun for some in stormblood, but by playing it, you were hurting your team for YOUR enjoyment. this game isnt a solo player game and raid isn't about the individual. this is the problem with your argument: you are trying to say that they are balanced because you are having fun and that isnt what determines balance. if you want to play a "bad" job, that is nice for you. this however, does not change the fact that they are inferior. entertainment doesnt qual balance.

also, warrior could seem fun to more simple players, but the fact is that warrior has lost a lot of what made the job warrior. SE has taken a lot from their rotation and abilities and hardly gave it any return. out of all the tanks, warrior has the least amount of attacks, and two of them are the same button. and both sets are RECYCLCED animations with a different name. warrior has regressed every expansion save heavensward. while warrior DID have growth in stormblood, the community couldn't handle it and SE shouldve found a different way to fix this other than 4.2 IR. the dev team had TWO YEARS to adjust what warrior was in 4.1 and they made it even more barren.

war got nothing in ShB. NF is a cut in half IB and tempest isnt new nor unique to warrior.out of the three veteran tanks, it lost the most. dark just ended up getting what warrior has, just no DHC with BW.

SE said their focus was lower levels. why does gnb get a gapcloser before the others? why does dark not have tbn before 69? it doesnt have any cds? why does it not get their second hit in their aoe combo until 72 as if that is considered "growth". pld, gnb, and war all have that at lower levels. the cd issue is also bad with pld too. pld needs to wait at least 25 or so seconds of uptime to get sheltron. the other tanks do not require this.