Dark Knight Megathread

[Archwizard]

The problem with the job is that it's too simple...

That's part of it from an attack perspective, anyway.

Simultaneously, you have the element that its mitigation style is more difficult than other jobs.
Dark Mind/Missionary have specific use cases, Living Dead still retains the highest demands of any invuln skill, Oblation is an extra oGCD we have to weave on top of TBN for partial value compared to what other tanks get out of their 25s CDs in one click now, and our only healing cooldown is a damage loss to us in single-target (on top of only being a fraction as potent as contemporaries available to other tanks).
This is to say nothing of the intricacies of TBN itself having potential for damage loss, comparing other tanks' on-demands, or how late it (much like GNB) gets many survival tools within the leveling process.

So you have the seeming paradox of the job having the least complicated attack rotation, and perhaps the one with the hardest time surviving at almost every level of content (aside from perhaps synched ShB content), which is arguably more important for a tank. Not incapable of performing the duties of a tank, just... harder on them.
It culminates in taking on a lot of risk, all for the reward of... doing slightly more damage than other tanks during your opener at 90 with an absolutely boring attack combo.

Granted, the damage makes it very attractive from a raiding perspective, but take that singular element away and you have the least attractive tank available.

[RyuDragnier]

So you have the seeming paradox of the job having the least complicated attack rotation, and perhaps the one with the hardest time surviving at almost every level of content (aside from perhaps synched ShB content), which is arguably more important for a tank. Not incapable of performing the duties of a tank, just... harder on them.
It culminates in taking on a lot of risk, all for the reward of... doing slightly more damage than other tanks during your opener at 90 with an absolutely boring attack combo.

Granted, the damage makes it very attractive from a raiding perspective, but take that singular element away and you have the least attractive tank available.

The funniest part is that the sustain portion can easily be fixed with few changes that don't really change the kit a whole lot. An HoT on Oblation, Dark Mind mitigating 10% of physical damage as well (so it's usable in all situations), maybe cure potency on use of Bloodspiller/Quietus...there's so little the devs have to actually do to fix DRK's ability to survive and bring it on par with other tanks.

[CasterSvarog]

The funniest part is that the sustain portion can easily be fixed with few changes that don't really change the kit a whole lot. An HoT on Oblation, Dark Mind mitigating 10% of physical damage as well (so it's usable in all situations), maybe cure potency on use of Bloodspiller/Quietus...there's so little the devs have to actually do to fix DRK's ability to survive and bring it on par with other tanks.

Or heck, they could bring back older actions like Shadowskin and Sole survivor for the ARR/HW levels. Those levels could certainly use something to help with tanking until you get TBN at level 70.