DRK vs. WAR: how do they compare?

[RyuDragnier]

This is why SE should balance jobs to dungeons. People keep saying the lack of self sustain doesn't matter, but clearly it does. It might not be much noticeable in savage content, but in dungeon content, it makes playing the job harder. It's proof that job not being well-balanced in dungeons is bad.

They don't even need to do much to DRK to balance it for dungeons. Up the cure potency on AD to 400 per enemy hit. That's it, that would fix the problem with W2W pulling on DRK.

[Derio]

They don't even need to do much to DRK to balance it for dungeons. Up the cure potency on AD to 400 per enemy hit. That's it, that would fix the problem with W2W pulling on DRK.

AD is on a 60s cooldown. It would need more than just a cure potency increase. But like others said. Its not about increasing our sustain but reducing other tanks to be more in line. Otherwise DRK would need sustain from other sources which would suggest a defensive kit rework for DRK or adding cure potency to other moves.

[RyuDragnier]

AD is on a 60s cooldown. It would need more than just a cure potency increase. But like others said. Its not about increasing our sustain but reducing other tanks to be more in line. Otherwise DRK would need sustain from other sources which would suggest a defensive kit rework for DRK or adding cure potency to other moves.

Meaning a nerf to WAR's Bloodwhetting. It's the only tank that's a bit...crazy on the self sustain while doing damage. GNB can only really buy time with Aurora and HoC. PLD, I'm unsure, because I've had to deal with a lot of squishy PLD and I'm unsure if it's the players or the job.

[Derio]

Meaning a nerf to WAR's Bloodwhetting. It's the only tank that's a bit...crazy on the self sustain while doing damage. GNB can only really buy time with Aurora and HoC. PLD, I'm unsure, because I've had to deal with a lot of squishy PLD and I'm unsure if it's the players or the job.

PLD sustain is really good in a dungeon setting for LVL 90. Since your magic phase is damage and healing combined with holy sheltron its pretty much only second best to WAR. However this causes PLD to feel absolutely terrible for sustain in anything less than lvl 90 content.

I dont expect them to realistically look at the tank defensive kits until the 6.25 and the meta jobs come out and people complain and play rates for that content are released.