Quote Originally Posted by Xenosan View Post
There's an increasing amount of false equivalencies and paper-stat discussions,
I think those theory crafting need to queue T5, T9, Titan, Odin, and other non-dungeon, non-24man-raid 50 content. (God forbid try PUGing it instead of with friends)
From my experience DRK just isn't matching up to PLD&WAR in any party composition in either OT/MT role....
If a PLD did it, a DRK could. They could only count on rampart and sentinel for reliable mitigation on any of those tank busters. Dark Dance then provides some decent general non-buster mitigation like bulwark. Think about how powerful Dark Mind is on Akh Morns or Revalations. Plus that extra 10% often up from reprisal. (It's a very big deal, though a bit less than Path, raid wide mitigation can really save the squishies back there).

My main point is that people are hung up on survivability when the difference is primarily one reliable cooldown being magic instead of physical.

Dark Arts blown on Dark Mind for resistance is a DPS loss.
That logic doesn't really hold up. It's not a very big loss. If DPS was truly that important as tank, no one would ever be in a tank as that's about the worst thing can can do for DPS.