Quote Originally Posted by Mekhana View Post
You dudes can't have your cake and eat it too. The only thing DRK got was dps and at the very last minute from the look of things judging by the tooltip info/leaks. You got a fancy rework, a ton more surv and fun beyond your opener/burst.

DPS comes and go with every patch. 50 potency here or there and its poof. Very little can be taken what was given to PLD.
The problem is in a game centered around DPS, nothing else matters. PLD is popular now because it's the new expansion's poster boy. Come Savage, it'll entirely drop off without some buffs. It simply cannot compete with the other tanks in a damage centric meta. It's why Warrior's insane self-sustain wasn't viewed as highly in ShB. If it doesn't result in more DPS opportunity for the healers, it may as well not exist.

Don't get me wrong. PLD should be the weakest tank because of it's flexibility in terms of downtime and utility, just not by this much. Frankly, I think they could shave off a very small amount from DRK, slap it on PLD and call it a day.