The Current state of DRK

[Zimmerson]

My POV comes from the view of raiding/ultimates - I've been doing the savage tier and M1S/M2S/M3S hardly have any magical attacks whatsoever, basically rendering Dark Mind useless. Sure, it has it's place in M4S, but most of the raid tier it's pretty much useless, meaning DRK only has:

Oblation x2
Rampart (all tanks have that)
Reprisal (all tanks have that)
Shadowed Vigil
TBN
Dark Missionary (yes, but this too is magic only, i'm more on about self-mitigation)

It wouldn't be as bad if DRK could at least heal itself some more - the problem is, DRK doesn't have the Potency (Damage) to risk taking. Why take DRK when I can take a WAR that can do more DPS and heal myself, or take PLD and heal myself with some of my attacks and have overall better mitigation than DRK, or GNB with the HoTs, Heart of Corundum and Great Nebula, etc.

Every tank can fully use its mitigations, no matter whether it's physical or magical, yet DRK is railroaded towards magical, making physical attacks hit harder due to less mit. I genuinely think Dark Mind needs changing, but that's just me.