Changing DRK to DPS entirely?

[Kiteless]

No, Path is just one aspect of the general idea of OT utility that DRK is lacking. WAR/WAR, WAR/PLD, PLD/War, and PLD/PLD are all more efficient tanking compositions than any involving a DRK. Both tanks have better mitigation, both tanks have better team utility, and one tank definitely does more damage, while the other one might be able to as well. What does DRK do?

[PerihVashai]

No, Path is just one aspect of the general idea of OT utility that DRK is lacking. WAR/WAR, WAR/PLD, PLD/War, and PLD/PLD are all more efficient tanking compositions than any involving a DRK. Both tanks have better mitigation, both tanks have better team utility, and one tank definitely does more damage, while the other one might be able to as well. What does DRK do?

WAR/WAR
- no int debuff(lack of monk will bite you here), as a main tank in a similar situation to ramuh has more effective mitigation than a WAR WAR, yes this including if every shockstrike gets inner beasted because the DRK will be sitting on 40-50% mitigation on all of them. Raw intuition gets rendered useless and thrill of battle as a defensive GCD is laughable, it's just a free cure in the grand scheme of things. While thrill of battle can give you the HP to survive an attack it doesn't help with effective mitigation and became worse with lustrate not getting a cure boost from it anymore.

PLD/PLD
- At least a DRK would bring the int debuff. That's more at least than a second PLD would bring. Reprisal could be an argument but that's not going to happen against a magic boss.

DRK/WAR is going to be the best "team" if there is a boss similar to ramuh/ultima

PLD/WAR will be for all else, unless something happens to DRK

Did someone just say they DON'T want LNC cross class skills on DRK? wtffff it could single handedly almost solve all of DRKs problems.

People are silly, but there are other ways to fix DRK this is just one of the many simple things that could be done. Then they'd need dark dance reworked and the ability to bring the STR debuff. With all those it could actually be a decent tank class. Still hard to replace WAR as an OT

[Giantbane]

WAR/WAR
- no int debuff(lack of monk will bite you here), as a main tank in a similar situation to ramuh has more effective mitigation than a WAR WAR, yes this including if every shockstrike gets inner beasted because the DRK will be sitting on 40-50% mitigation on all of them. Raw intuition gets rendered useless and thrill of battle as a defensive GCD is laughable, it's just a free cure in the grand scheme of things. While thrill of battle can give you the HP to survive an attack it doesn't help with effective mitigation and became worse with lustrate not getting a cure boost from it anymore.

Storm's path is stronger than both the PLD Str debuff and the DRK/MNK int debuff, and it decreases both physical & magic damage. I'm actually very surprised they haven't brought this debuff to other classes as it's so strong for progression fights. Pretty much guarantees that you should bring a WAR in any situation where boss damage is a concern.

Thrill of battle is excellent, use it with convalescence and it functions almost exactly as Rampart/Shadowskin does.