Getting refused to EX groups as a DRK

[Krr]

If party finders are regularly rejecting a job, then it's in need of a buff. Period.

Look at 2.0 WAR. Look at 2.4 Dragoon. Look at 2.4 Summoner.

"It's usable" isn't an excuse. Every job needs to be meaningfully competitive, which DRK isn't - not in party utility, not in OT DPS, and not in MT mitigation over time.

The only thing it has going for it is the ability to enable DRG | NIN melee comps and somewhat measurably higher MT DPS than PLD. Healers are taxed by the DRK's lackluster defenses and the entire party is taxed by its lower DPS and lack of utility, and the DRK themselves has to put forth additional work for no gain compared to other tanks, resulting in the job, while not being unusable is a burden to teams on it.


Fun facts, if you take the last paragraph and replace "DRK" with "DRG" and "DRG | NIN" with "BRD | BRD" I'm actually describing the 2.4 Dragoon. That was totally functional in raids and didn't need a buff, right guys?

It's the first I've heard of that.. FAIK the reason WAR was buffed in 2.1 is because i70 PLD/PLD was clearing COIL week 1 of release - when SE was expecting it to be not so easily accomplished til Crystal Towers i80 gear was available.

The reason WAR was buffed was because its usage rate in top-end content was pathetically low, and it was being rejected from serious groups. A great deal of feedback and noise, paired with S-E's usage metrics led to the job being fixed in 2.1.

The same needs to happen with DRK. Let the user feedback and most importantly the use metrics in the first four weeks of Alexander Savage speak for themselves, not hyperbole about 'player skill' or how DRK is some sort of mystical special "magic tank" because it has a debuff that's a crappy Dragon Kick substitute and a Sentinel that only works on half the attacks in the game.

(Fun facts, on fights with lots of magic damage and therefore few attacks to parry, DRK's mitigation is actually crushed by the lack of access to Reprisal.)