Big pulls with Dark Knight.

[GucciSan]

Shougun did give a perfectly fine response, and we don't even necessarily disagree with each other. Under normal conditions the tank classes are pretty well balanced; I've said as much multiple times in this thread. Paladins having the option to weather worst case scenarios by sacrificing damage is something I feel like all tanks should have though. It's kind of absurd to just give it to Paladins.

Healers can heal through pretty much anything by sacrificing damage. Skilled tanks should be able to tank through pretty much anything as well. Paladins can; DRK's can't.

Healers healing through anything is really the point of them being healers. That's pretty much what they're designed to do.

But it's important that each Job have their respective reason for playing them. PLD has Clemency, and DRK has TBN. It's very obvious from this thread that you clearly like PLD more than DRK because it has Clemency. A spammable self-sustain is what PLD is known for and if every tank had something similar then PLD wouldn't be that special anymore.

[Goji1639]

Healers healing through anything is really the point of them being healers. That's pretty much what they're designed to do.

But it's important that each Job have their respective reason for playing them. PLD has Clemency, and DRK has TBN. It's very obvious from this thread that you clearly like PLD more than DRK because it has Clemency. A spammable self-sustain is what PLD is known for and if every tank had something similar then PLD wouldn't be that special anymore.

If being able to heal through anything is the point of healers, then being able to tank through anything would sensibly be the point of tanking.

TBN is part of DRK's general purpose kit; in fact it's the majority of DRK's kit. Paladin's general purpose kit has enough tools to be balanced against TBN. Clemency basically exists outside of that; it's an OPTION to sacrifice your damage to make yourself nigh unkillable. No other tank has an equivalent option.

As mentioned earlier; it's like taking a bunch of DPS classes, balancing their output and just randomly giving Summoner the ability to rez. Sure, Summoner burns GCD and a ton of Mana to do it so it's not "optimal," but it's still ridiculous to give a great utility to 1 DPS class and give the rest nothing to balance it out. Now of course if I made that point you'd all be saying "ZOMG!! RES IS TOTAL DPS LOSS!! NOT OPTIMAL!! UR BAD SUMMNER!! LRN2PLAYNOOB!!"