Quote Originally Posted by Tanthalus View Post
Remember that it's a lot easier to speak in defence of war or pld tanks since theyve been out 2 years now (4 if you count version 1.0)
And drk has been out what...5 days? With no actual raid content to speak of this isn't too factual at the moment and should all be taken in stride. I haven't taken my pld or war past 50 yet but I can definitely say that drk has a place in tanking that's on par with what's out there. But like all classes it needs to be understood to be used properly.
What's to understand? People have done raids for 2 years, so they have an idea what sorts of abilities work (flat damage reduction), which are unreliable (parry), which often don't work at all (flash, evasion), and which have scaling issues (self heals). Then you can look at the DRK ability set and start coming to informed conclusions.

DRK has sufficient tools to handle magical damage. There is a valid concern whether DRK has enough cooldowns to handle heavy physical damage in situations where blind and evasion don't work. As most of the raids up to this point have had physical tank busters this is cause for concern. The fact that they also don't bring much to the table as an off tank is also cause for concern.