Dark Knight - I Used To Love You

[Alaeacus]

Ever since Stormblood, DRK has always felt like the tank that's busier than WAR but doesn't get rewarded for it. You press more buttons for the same or less result. Living Dead can kill you, Holm can't. DRK dps is almost never top. TBN is great, but the other tanks have plenty of great mitigation and heals too.

DRK has consistently been the "it's viable" or "it's fine" tank. Never the "it's amazing!" tank.

^ Every time I post this same opinion, people gang up on me. DRK, to me, feels like it's got excessive button-presses and extra resource-management just to become equal to PLD...a job that has neither excessive button-presses nor extra resource management. I see literally no actual incentive to play DRK over PLD, other than to look like an edgy boy with all my purple farts (and I can glamour my gear Black as a PLD too). In fact, I only see disincentives. The less I have to look at a skill bar or resource gauge, the more I can actually pay attention to what a boss is doing.