The P1N solo tank thread got moved to tank forums, here's why it shouldn't have been.

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

Seriously? Speaking about DRK’s sustainability again? How many times this misconception has to be brought up over and over and over and over again?

DRK has the worst sustainability but doesn’t mean they’re BAD with it. The reason why they felt harder because sustainability wise they received little to no change from ShB compared to 3 other tanks. If you used to be able to heal DRK or any other tanks decently back in ShB (Heck, PLD was slightly harder to heal too -_-), you won’t have a problem healing a well played DRK in EW unless you’re just bad, plain bad; there’s no in-between there.

[Deceptus]

Seriously? Speaking about DRK’s sustainability again? How many times this misconception has to be brought up over and over and over and over again?

DRK has the worst sustainability but doesn’t mean they’re BAD with it. The reason why they felt harder because sustainability wise they received little to no change from ShB compared to 3 other tanks. If you used to be able to heal DRK or any other tanks decently back in ShB (Heck, PLD was slightly harder to heal too -_-), you won’t have a problem healing a well played DRK in EW unless you’re just bad, plain bad; there’s no in-between there.

DRKs traditionally have always been a bit harder to heal in leveling content mostly because when they don't outgear content, TBN isn't as effective.

But when they do, and have high HP totals, TBN becomes an absolute monster.

Basically: The Blackest Night has been a crutch for DRKs since it's implementation and the job has suffered substantially since.

[Shurrikhan]

DRKs traditionally have always been a bit harder to heal in leveling content mostly because when they don't outgear content, TBN isn't as effective.

But when they do, and have high HP totals, TBN becomes an absolute monster.

Basically: The Blackest Night has been a crutch for DRKs since it's implementation and the job has suffered substantially since.

Unless your final comment here has nothing to do with the reasoning above it, this seems a simple rehash of "all jobs must scale about equally with gear and content" that homogenized Warrior's gear-based sustain (e.g., healing from damage-based self-heals) towards Paladin's content-based sustain (percentile mitigation) back in 2.0 -> 2.1, soon leading to DRK, on implementation, likewise copying over the majority of its defensive abilities from Paladin (for a slew of initial comments as to DRK being a "Messy-PLD w/o Cover and an invuln that can only delay death instead of preventing it").

A tank doesn't necessarily "suffer" for producing its sustain in a different way; varying means of throughput just means that tuning is that much more complex, not impossible or so inefficient as to make that variance untenable.

[Lyth]

Mitigation and healing are not the same thing. There are specific conditions under which you can find equivalence, but that should be done with caution and not blindly. This is the reason why, although the game devs have separated out healers into 'pure healers' and 'shield healers', we are yet to see a healer job that only can cast shields (i.e. mitigation without healing). Er, we're all grateful that you've blocked a lot of damage there, but we're going to die on the next auto from pure attrition.

[Risvertasashi]

p2s has been cleared with 6 dps. PLD and SGE and no dancers, for those curious.

[Deceptus]

p2s has been cleared with 6 dps. PLD and SGE and no dancers, for those curious.

With enough gear, single healing savages is a pretty normal thing.