to Future DRK Players

[Mekhana]

We're back to full despair mode. Lots of people playing the job. People must be happy and the class is doing great. After all the metrics say so and the metrics are never wrong.

Nevermind people picked the job because of the ShB trailer, the fact we use greatswords or that we're (or used to be) cool looking and edgy.

All in all you can tell how worse the job is by simply looking at the number of traits available and added. Gunbreaker starts at level 60 and has TWICE the traits we do.

They won't fix our pre-tbn leveling skillset, we've mostly received underwhelming versions of other tanks skills and we didn't get anything remotely as cool as the other tanks.

I'm beating a dead horse at this point.

[Axxion]

as i looked at the skills, I just what to know what will be the purpose of having 3 stacks of Delirium. Can someone explain this to me, all seriousness.

And they nerf carve n spit

[Nyarlha]

as i looked at the skills, I just what to know what will be the purpose of having 3 stacks of Delirium. Can someone explain this to me, all seriousness.

It's not 3 stacks of Delirium. Delirium gives you 3 stacks of a buff. Each stack allows you to use Bloodspiller/Quietus for free once over the 30sec duration. Meaning you are no longer stuck in a 10sec window, if you have to move away from the boss in the middle of Delirium, you can, and go back and not lose anything.

[Garnix]

It's not 3 stacks of Delirium. Delirium gives you 3 stacks of a buff. Each stack allows you to use Bloodspiller/Quietus for free once over the 30sec duration. Meaning you are no longer stuck in a 10sec window, if you have to move away from the boss in the middle of Delirium, you can, and go back and not lose anything.

Said like that, everything makes sense now!
So you can basically freely roam around the arena, and use your completely overpowered Enhanced Unmend and Plunge, without even missing out on a Bloodspiller! This update to Unmend is actually great!................/s

[Liam_Harper]

I genuinely feel bad for DRK.

WAR is getting even more healing and every tank is getting a buffed tank immune ...except DRK. They get barely anything. Dark missionary gets no heal and is still locked after 70. The class looks abandoned.

[Axxion]

It's not 3 stacks of Delirium. Delirium gives you 3 stacks of a buff. Each stack allows you to use Bloodspiller/Quietus for free once over the 30sec duration. Meaning you are no longer stuck in a 10sec window, if you have to move away from the boss in the middle of Delirium, you can, and go back and not lose anything.

Hey that what the tip said >_<". they could had just did two and a charge to Abyssal Drain.

[RinaB]

I mailed drk for a long time but recently ditched the role as a whole. The live letter was incredibly dry and obviously catering to inexperienced/new tanks. I have switched to Sam and will be maining it from this point on.

[OdinelStarrei]

I mailed drk for a long time but recently ditched the role as a whole. The live letter was incredibly dry and obviously catering to inexperienced/new tanks. I have switched to Sam and will be maining it from this point on.

Remember this?

Dont talk about drk on the forums. You'll get HWS fans or DA spam boys. Yes it sucks they're similar but there is a big difference between pushing buttons and pushing the right buttons.

Maybe now you get it. So much passion for the job, all for naught.

Naturally, I'll be going down with the ship, and staying. In a way, I'm sure I'll come to enjoy being ignored and neglected, I can handle another two years. Good luck on DPS.

[RinaB]

I do remember and at the time I was still enjoying it. After the live letter and a lot of the new players, I lost all interest in the role as a whole not just drk. If you're staying in the role that's good since God knows we need more veteran tanks out there but I for one cannot do it anymore.

[Hierro]

The problem in Stormblood wasn't identity. It was that it was uniquely bad.

DRK had the lowest damage output by a fairly large margin.

After all these years, I can't believe you still believe this. Some things never change in light of hard numerical evidence. Let's take a look at some high uptime fights. We'll start with alte roite in deltascape. Across all percentiles, DRK had an average of 3.2k dps while WAR had an average of of 3.5k. a difference of ~300 dps from the highest DPS tank to the lowest DPS tank is not a "large margin." Even in fights that supposedly would favor WAR over DRK with more downtime, the DPS difference actually decreases.

during sigmascape, same story. In a high uptime fight like godka, we see a dps difference between WAR and DRK, the highest and lowest respectively of ~200. The disparity shrunk from last patch, even accounting for 4.1 WAR's buff. How about that? In a fight with more downtime like o7s, the difference jumps up to ~300, but again, this difference is less significant as both WAR and DRK were now putting out 4.2 and 3.9 respectively. Again, not significant in the grand scheme of total raid DPS.

Then during the last tier in alphascape, we actually see DRK beat out PLD in every single fight across all percentiles.

What "large margin" are you refering to?