Dark Knights are an absolute joke and I'm tired of pretending they're not

[Zairava]

Dude if you're struggling to pull mobs and go through level 81+ dungeons the problem is you. Sorry to say fam

This isn't counting other factors. We can manage our cooldowns properly and still run out if the dps is that slow and the healer can't keep up. I've come down to just hoping TBN comes off cooldown because I was waiting on my other cooldowns. Overall our current kit can get us by in dungeons. However not only have I come back the job and it's not remotely as bad as I remember it or made it out to be, but can safely say it still needs some more or better sustain to be on par with the other tanks in dungeons. At the very least I would like living dead to not be utter garbage because I feel like that's another big reason it falls short.

Because in the long run holding a grudge just makes you miserable. Increased stress levels, fixation on negative outlooks, etc.
Like life is full of disappointments, be it just having a FFXIV job you like being changed to something you don't like, getting your bicycle stolen, get injured by an accident, yeah sometimes things suck.
But it is better to move on from it than getting stuck on this loop that "if I am angry about it long enough, eventually things will change." That is not it shakes up majority of the time.
The big DRK thread had all these posts that "Next patch! Next patch will surely finally have major DRK changes!", people whipping themselves into a frenzy with NOTHING really to back up that energy. And when nothing happens, that just fuels more negativity.

Look man there are plenty like me who have tried to play other jobs and stray from Dark Knight. It's miserable to keep playing a job we love that keeps getting ignored, so yes we're upset with it. I stopped using my energy to get too mad about it a while ago but you can't do this to a job for several years and expect not to receive consistent backlash because of it. We can still hope for changes, but I agree in people making it a lot more stressful for themselves than it should be. At this point I'd accept just sustain improvements and some small changes then have a big rework on the job mechanically later but I just don't have my hopes up anymore.