A (maybe) different outlook on the current DRK situation

[HisShadowX]

The Ugly:
And here's where the issues I mentioned above become far worse when combined with the current meta. It's one thing to look at a class in isolation, but when you put it alongside all other classes, issues will appear. And DRK has some ugly ones.

First, the obvious: as the tank with the weakest self-healing in the entire roster, endgame-level healers have to adjust their way of healing whenever they get matched up with a DRK. I've seen this multiple times. It's often no fault of the healer; they just spent the last 10 matchups healing immortal Paladins and Warriors, and suddenly now they're matched up with a DRK that can't heal self-heal to save her own life.

Second, and this is a particularly egregious "special case" of the first issue: DRKs match up HORRIBLY with Sages. Ponder with me for a second: what happens when you have a shield-based Tank with bad self-healing and match her with a Healer with the weakest panic burst of all current healers? Yeah. Not good.

DRK + SGE is a matchup made in hell. Most of the times I died in endgame dungeon pulls, I was matched up with a Sage. Often a Sage who complained that "maybe I didn't use enough cooldowns", all the while I stared at my hotbar, all icons definitely on cooldown.

...Well, all except for Living Dead, because if Sage has issues healing DRK in *normal* conditions, can you imagine one trying to top-off a DRK, from zero to full, before the counter reaches zero, after running out of their already tiny pool of panic burst healing?

Yeah. DRK + SGE brings the worst from both classes, and it showcases their worst aspects. Two AMAZING and INCREDIBLY FUN classes, mind you. They're my favorite tank and healer. But they have flaws, and they compound in a very, very bad way.

...Which makes me sad, because again, they're my favorite classes. And also singe Sage is a new class, I get matched up with them a lot. That gets annoying fast.

The Dark Knight historically has been a DPS class and a DPS focus but was changed in this game to get more people tanking. Historically Dark Knights do not have a self heal they have instead using their own HP to damage other people.

[Undeadfire]

The Dark Knight historically has been a DPS class and a DPS focus but was changed in this game to get more people tanking. Historically Dark Knights do not have a self heal they have instead using their own HP to damage other people.

It's a Tank/DPS depending how FF set it. 10-2 had DRK as a Tank role, 11 based it hybrid DPS/Tank role it could do both.