my mp hates drk

[Locet]

anyone else really hate healing Dark Knights? not every single one, for example actually have a Drk in my static and he is really good.. but on average I would say about 90% of the pug drk I find are sooo squishy -_- give me a pally or war to heal any day please

[Xyth]

I never had an issue healing any DRKs o.o

[Leiloni]

No most DRK's are perfectly fine IMO. The only time I had trouble was when the patch first came out, so both myself as an AST and the DRK were both new to our classes and learning. However at this point I can heal most of them fine. The only situations where they've become difficult to heal is a situation where any tank would be struggling, so that's not a class issue.

[Azorius]

I think it's more of a new tank issue than a DRK issue. Whenever I get a DRK tank who feels squishy, 9/10 they have 1 mob in front and 3 punching them in the back of the head and are like, "Not let mobs hit me from behind? Why? Is that a thing? Are you sure?".

[SirShuffles]

It was worse at first, but I kinda like DRKs now.

[technole]

It's not the job, it's the derp knight player that never keeps Darkside up while tanking in Grit. So they do minimal damage each pull and mobs stay alive longer, and that means more healing. Combine that with no mitigation when needed. Oh boy.

Combine this with possible bad dps is some light parties, and healers that just stand there that don't DPS either. Now you got your work cut out for you because not everyone is playing their job optimally so everything is slow to die.

[GideonHighmourn]

I don't think it's specific to DRKs; far more likely it's specific to bad tanks, and yours happened to be a DRK.

[Risvertasashi]

anyone else really hate healing Dark Knights? not every single one, for example actually have a Drk in my static and he is really good.. but on average I would say about 90% of the pug drk I find are sooo squishy -_- give me a pally or war to heal any day please

Pretty much my experience. My static's DRK is awesome, but 90% of DF ones are super squishy.

[MagnusSforzando]

I have never had a problem healing Dark Knights tbh. Just like healign everything else in my opinion.

[GeekMatt]

Substantially squishier in the 51-59 dungeons compared to war/PLD. It was mainly when they pulled multiple mob sets though that there was an issue, they get bursted down extremely fast. Particularly ones in DPS accessories... As a WHM I could always carry a bad tank but when I went AST there was one time a DRK pulled pulled 2 groups in The Aery--I was in Diurnal, had Aspected Benefict up and spammed Benefict II. His incoming damage was greater than my output--I was able to keep him up temporarily, but AST only has a couple tricks and I didn't get lucky on Card draws. Dead DRK, we wiped, oh well. No big deal except that he decided to do it again, which caught me completely off guard the second time because as a tank main I can't believe anyone would be dumb enough to do that. T____T