Dark Knight feels terrible to play

[Absimiliard]

If you wish to mitigate you have to press roughly 3 or 4 buttons to mitigate as much damage as the other jobs, who only use 2 buttons. This wouldn't be so bad on a job like Paladin or Warrior, but DRK is anyway off GCD heavy.

Aight, hold up a second. What? First of all, you shouldn't be stacking defensive CDs in the first place outside of tankbusters, in which case the go-to is TBN + almost anything else. Hell, most of the time you don't even need to combine anything with it. Second of all, where in the world did you get the idea DRK's mitigation is inferior? It has hands down the strongest raw mitigation out of all the tanks. What it lacks is self-healing. And oGCD usage? GBN beats it by twelve miles, but they're still able to mitigate just fine. Not being able to oGCD weave efficiently is a git gud problem, not a job problem.

This isn't to say I don't absolutely loathe the current state of DRK, of course. I do. It truly does feel awful to play 90% of the time. Still, one mustn't misrepresent the facts if there's to be any hope of a rework that doesn't make them suck to play even more than they already do.