Dark Knight Megathread

[hotaruchan]

Problem is, DRK in addition to all the issues is still lowest dps tank overall. While the gap might be lower than before due to buffs, being at the bottom is bad optics and only contributes to the perception is that the job sucks.

No wonder it is least played one for the new savage (Tank breakdown for M1S: WAR 34%, GNB 27%, PLD 22%, DRK 17%).

I mean even if the dps was the same down to the last digit between the four tanks, taking damage 100% out of the equation. Why would you bother bringing drk over any of the other 3? Less party utility, less sustain, one of it's major mitigations is pointless for major chunks of a physical damage predominant encounter set up. TBN has been propping up the job since it's inception and it's getting old.

[Shurrikhan]

TBN has been propping up the job since it's inception and it's getting old.

TBN was useful but hardly invasive in its inception in Stormblood. That just happens, though, to be a time in which tank active healing was both very high and at-cost, whereas now its less interestingly provided and (unless you fail to pop TBN) entirely "free". It's not what caused that shift though, but merely the sole survivor of it (save in that it now grants MP cost nullification instead of 50 Blood, all so we could pretend Dark Arts still exists by carrying over its name onto an effect irrelevant to its prior function).