I bring up SMN primarily because of how much of a jump it was especially in regards to what it brought. WAR now is like...decent DPS but not even the max DPS compared to likes of DRK? Again that's fine, but people make it sound like it's 5% ahead of every tank or something, it gets ridiculous. Personal preference if other tanks don't need the healing, DRK of course has really good shields EVENTUALLY that make it harder to take damage...but then people still gasp in horror when they see a DRK in dungeons, Dark Mind is still a mess, Dark Missionary comes ungodly late for absolutely no reason, and so on. I mean I'd take Abyssal Drain being on MP cost if I wanted to be lazy, but Blood Price becoming a beast by healing back 50% of the damage and some MP for a sweet boost? Man that sounds really fun. GNB could still gain some shields during its burst window as well, also make No Mercy longer so everything can fit cleanly, but that means not burdening the healer too much by going combo ham and risking DPS within the small weave windows. Aurora and Heart of Corundum only do so much even if they're...fine.

Of course if you don't want that well, enjoy more threads of DRK needing help, because they'll just keep coming. I'd personally like if they didn't have Inner Release 0.5 or Fell Cleave 0.5, not even WAR's asked for that. That doesn't make healing a taboo though a WAR only sin(you mention copy paste, not me~). For this thread though, I'll just stick with the above plans if they wanted to put in some good stuff for the two tanks.

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