Getting refused to EX groups as a DRK

[Kiteless]

The main problem with DRK is that some of them are just stupid. Last night, as a ilvl 160~ PLD, I tanked the Singularity Reactor with a DRK, undergeared compared to me. He spent all the fight in Grit, just beside me, and tried to take aggro all along, just spamming his aggro combo (and nothing else). He took, of course, all the cleave hits and Dragon's Gaze. And he turned off the Grit (but not the Darkside) when the boss dissapeared for the AOE phase.

As a lvl 53 DRK, I can understand why we're not welcome when I see some people playing DRK like that. And at lvl 60, so he wasn't a noob tank anymore...

I, and most others, have seen bad players of every class. People not knowing how to play DRK is not the problem. Most of the people making complaints in this thread know how to play DRK, but we still are significantly disadvantaged despite that.

[Kaedan]

I, and most others, have seen bad players of every class. People not knowing how to play DRK is not the problem. Most of the people making complaints in this thread know how to play DRK, but we still are significantly disadvantaged despite that.

"Significantly" disadvantaged? No, not at all.

Slightly disadvantaged? Yes, that's true. People are making a mountain out of a mole hill. There are certainly improvements that can be made to DRK. But that's true of all the new jobs. It's far better for a developer to start a class off underpowered and have to buff them than to start them overpowered and have to nerf them. "The Masses" respond far better to buffs than nerfs.

[Aerya]

I, and most others, have seen bad players of every class. People not knowing how to play DRK is not the problem. Most of the people making complaints in this thread know how to play DRK, but we still are significantly disadvantaged despite that.

I agree my DRK is disadvantaged compared to my PLD, but not enough to make it refused in runs. I know a lot of people who sigh when they are with a DRK in a run, because it's the class with the most bad players right now. New class + new role is too much to learn for some people. The DRK reputation will get better when it will get a few buffs and adjustments (TP management for example), but also when the new "DRK looks so dark and cool" tanks learn their role or give up (and it already started).