Dark Knight Megathread

[Shurrikhan]

TBN deserves that kind of synergy before it can be called comparable to HoC, HS, and Blood Whetting.

...Why would a level 70 ability ever amount to a combined level 70 ability plus a massive level 82 bonus?

TBN you will ignore the actual visible results of how poor the ability actually compares due to the kit it is in.

That's not the ability, though. That's the kit. DRK's pre-EW on-demand compares just fine against everyone else's pre-EW on-demand. The problem is that DRK's is a pre-EW kit... with merely Oblation, vs. 3 tanks with actual EW kits. That's not a TBN problem. That's a "Where tf is everything else?" problem.

That being said, the end-result is still that I do fine as a DRK, and when healing DRKs, off just a pre-GCD and oGCDs healing, same as any other tank. Perhaps if we weren't regularly shoveling the idea that TBN is so weak that it's not even worth using in dungeons --as if there was something unique to damage coming from multiple sources that makes a flat shield somehow worth fewer HP-- we'd have fewer DRKs who require GCDs heal spams. That doesn't mean DRK doesn't need an actual EW kit, beyond merely Oblation, but the idea that it's somehow unhealable or catastrophically weak in dungeons is utter bull. Bad DRKs might be, but so are bad GNBs and PLDs.