Quote Originally Posted by Crater View Post
I think that's very obviously untrue.

At the outset of Endwalker, it was extremely obvious that it was an intentional design decision for DRK to be the big-damage, offense-oriented tank at level 90. It wasn't a freak accident that DRK just so happened to gain 1.5-2x the amount of potency from 81-90 that every other tank did, nor was it a freak accident that that "big damage" identity didn't extend back to level 80 (where the tanks, at the time, were left roughly equal on damage) - because at level 80 DRK maintained a significant defensive advantage over other tanks.

In 6.2, some of this design is muddled, because obviously SE's intention for tank design as a whole didn't work out the way they hoped it would (for instance, PLD now gains a pretty obscene amount of potency in the 81-90 range). But you have to ignore every piece of evidence to look at the way tanks were intended to function in Endwalker to come to the conclusion that it all just happened by accident.

Just because it's not the class you want it to be, doesn't mean that there wasn't a clear and specific intention behind its design. It's a very coherently-designed tank, both offensively and defensively, regardless of whether you happen to like the way they've designed its offensive or defensive components.
I think you're giving SE way too much credit when that potency is coming from such amazingly well thought out traits such as "Enhanced Living Shadow II"