Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
True, but that's more a simple matter of scaling. Percentile mitigation's throughput scales with the content. Healing and barriers scale solely with your own gear. If you're undergeared for said content, it's better to scale off it than off yourself. If you're overgeared, it's better to scale solely off oneself. (Of course, DRK does eventually offer the catch-22 of being too outgeared for content making it harder to pop TBN.)[/SIZE]
But therein really lies another problem, because healing from other tanks also scales off of gear. All of the benefits with none of the drawbacks, and DRK sits there making sad edgy noises. The only reason DRK was part of the world first was because it was a DPS that could handle tank swap mechanics. More damage is good and all but damn... can't DRK be fun instead? It's getting to a point where it's exclusively a clearing tool.