Changing DRK to DPS entirely?

[Anger]

The Dark Knight, as most have said, seems to be a jack of all trades. it doesn't have the DPS of the warrior or the mitigation of the paladin. it could be argued, if an individual had all three at 60 - with equivalent gear - there's be no real reason to take a Dark Knight in any situation.

If this is the case, would it be so hard to accept DRK being changed from a tank to a DPS entirely? What I mean is, reworking the class so it has no emnity skills and is simply a melee DPS like in FFXI.

Otherwise, I can't really see a niche for the DRK or a way to rework it, as many have suggested, to make it a viable choice.

[Hundred]

Did I step back into the warrior 2.0 threads?

[saber_alter]

Did I step back into the warrior 2.0 threads?

you and me both...

as soon as fell cleave no longer is able to crit for 10k op.

[Sessurea]

Did I step back into the warrior 2.0 threads?

See threads from mcns wanting more dps than monks too xD

[Kiteless]

No, go away. I may not like the problems that my high execution tank has, but you'd be a fool to assume I don't love my high execution tank.

[Zyph]

Oh noooo...

[Anger]

So it begins. All the nublets who picked up DRK because it looked cool but had never tanked before suddenly realizing that DRK is actually expected to tank things.

I think it needs to be given some niche between the three tanks instead of it just being "fun and cool."

[SpookyGhost]

http://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/

[TouchandFeel]

No thank you, leave DRK as a tank and just fix it.
Making them viable tanks that bring utility and have a place in raid parties is not an impossible task and there have been many good (and many more not so good) suggestions on how to accomplish this. If you go back through the suggestion threads, all the stuff you bring up is mentioned as well as suggestions and ideas on how to address those issues.

No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater instead of just refilling the tub.

[TouchandFeel]

Also a no thank you to completely changing it into an evasion tank.
Evasion tanking is almost always unintended, such as the case of ninja in FFXI, and is utterly unreliable which makes it undesirable as a tank in high end content. It always ends up either completely op or utter crap, all due to the rng nature of it.
Can a tank have evasion as an aspect of their mitigation arsenal, sure just like block or parry, but basing a tank on it is a bad idea.