Honesty I am not surprised.

I actually called August of last year:
Quote Originally Posted by Xtrasweettea View Post
DRK is never going to be "fixed." SE has moved DRK away from its HW iteration and StB iteration to this new ShB iteration. We can complain all we want, but SE is not going to adjust DRK to be like any previous iteration.

DRK ShB will be the new norm for now on. 6.0 DRK will be using ShB DRK as a base.


As for the DPS jobs: DPS jobs are SE's priority; not tanks nor healers.

DPS jobs are going to get the fixes since those jobs cater the majority. SE wants to "fix" BRD even, but they don't know how since the player-base is not committed to a specific theme for BRD.

SE is satisfied with tanks right now. ShB tank iterations are meeting what metrics SE has for tanks. Now it is just maintenance of whatever subs are left, which will more-than-likely be playing DPS and not tanks.
Thread: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...54#post5394754


I don't know why everyone here was holding out hope for us going back to a HW or StB type DRK when SE was clearly going to just make a ShB DRK 2.0.

The direction of the non-dps classes are simplification. Their goal is to keep those metric outputs at or above their targets. Apparently they saw success in ShB for tanks and healers. To SE, at the moment, DRK is right where they want it.