Getting refused to EX groups as a DRK

[niwaar]

While any group that is refusing you due to you being a dark for Extremes or Alexander Normal are just plain stupid, your statement:

"Sorry we want a warrior OT" or "Sorry, DRK's can't push the dps needed" AND ONE told me that due to my gear, I wasn't gonna get it unless I was a warrior cause it seems, warriors in MY gear can pull higher dps and give more to the group due to slashing debuff.

Is a serious strike against the Dark Knight as a tank. Our dps can be competitive under the right circumstances but Warriors will always out dps us as the OT. The biggest flaw in the Dark Knight tanking tool kit is simply that we do not bring anything to the group when we are the OT. A Paladin can do their Rage of Halone combo as the OT and put up the Strength Debuff. A Warrior can Storm's Eye. We have 2 debuffs. The first, Reprisal is a proc off parrying an attack. Thus useless for the OT save for minimal circumstances of cleave soaking in A3 and Ravana. Even then the debuff is the same as Storm's Path, but unlike Storm's Path can not be 100% maintained. The second debuff we can bring is Blind. Unfortunately Trial and Raid bosses are immune to Blind. Thus as a DRK we can only bring something to the group by main tanking or being talented enough to have high OT DPS (which currently is a challenge and is not probable for most players).

There are a number of small tweaks that need to happen to DRK to make it more fun and balanced to play. But, the simple fact that we bring absolutely no utility to the group while Warrior and Paladin both bring debuffs (or in the case of PLD buffs) that can change the course of an encounter.

I had high hopes for the job. But until we are actually a help and not a hindrance to the group while not MT, I am stuck leveling warrior to 60 so I am not a burden to my friends.