Quote Originally Posted by Delorean View Post
how many people here even have their sights set on savage though?

that's my point - all this obsession with min maxing and most people play in a group where it doesn't matter and are holding themselves to a standard for a facet of content they will probably not even complete.

if you are focusing on that content then you know that you can't expect a developer to fix your favorite class for you to play and you will have to use what you've got.

but for this low end stuff? every class is viable

In my experience, it's because for a lot of content, especially early on (although it never REALLY changes too much), you're going to end up with a lot of 'dud' players. And this doesn't even really have to be for hard content, Bismark Ex is really just an easy DPS check, and yet a lot of people have a lot of difficulty with it. So players will try to eliminate as many elements from their party composition that could end up costing them a run and their next sliver of sanity.
In the case of DRK, we have a class that is the least capable of the tanks in addition to having the highest skill requirements of the role. That's a lot of room for some pretty catastrophic error that a lot of other players just might feel isn't worth the risk, whether that risk be proven or simply inferred.