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[Gorlioliolio]

Reading threads/watching videos about DRK from first 4 weeks of expansion.

It's almost completely the opposite of what you see now.

"DRK is weak..."
"DRK is squishy..."
"No one will use a DRK MT over pld/war...."
"PLD is the hands down better MT..."

Oh how quickly things changed, with the only buff DRK got being the blood weapon one, we also got the double C&S nerf.

[seekified]

You also got an endgame raid where DRKs by their very nature are a better choice than PLDs.

[SpookyGhost]

I was actually pretty surprised by everyone thinking DRK was super weak, at least once Alex NM released. The only place I thought PLD would be strong was A3S and possibly A2S (depending on how it was tuned). Savage was definitely designed to make DRK shine, so I'm curious to see what the next raids will be like for it.

[Martin_Arcainess]

lol that be the community for ya, fortune telling, assuming and not understanding people.

One thing I learn on here is never take what anyone says on here with a pinch of salt, take it with a spoonful of the stuff.

When it comes to jobs some people are bias, stubborn or just think there know it all about jobs and that they can bring.
Some are just either trollers though.

I was actually pretty surprised by everyone thinking DRK was super weak, at least once Alex NM released. The only place I thought PLD would be strong was A3S and possibly A2S (depending on how it was tuned). Savage was definitely designed to make DRK shine, so I'm curious to see what the next raids will be like for it.

I hear the next Raid will involve more physical tank busters.

[Risvertasashi]

I think a lot of that was new tanks wearing DoW left side (or just having atrocious gear in general). In any case, healing (most) DRKs at release was not fun. Sometimes ultra-squishies still sneak into ex roulette, but that can happen on PLD and WAR too.

[RocheKat]

Drk like War has a higher skill floor so when every moron is playing the new job everyone gets to see a terrible tank. An idiot behind the wheel of a pld can sort of function as a tank... that same is not true for Drk.

What is funny about all this is the people that think Drk is godly now because some raiders said so will be complaining soon when they figure out they aren't.

[Isius]

Most early drk tanks in 3.0 were not people that traditionally played a tank class. I knew one person ingame that refused to use Grit while doing expert dungeons as they did large pulls, because they wanted to do more dps...

[Gorlioliolio]

To be fair I do that now if I trust my healer.

[Yaichiro]

Dark Knight is the most difficult tank to play and MP management is extremely hard if you don't know what to do. Nevertheless once you master the job it becomes reliable and fun as playing a Warrior.

At the initial start of the expansion many people tried tanking for first time by using Dark Knight that requires a high par of skill. Some didn't even have provoke! The out cry about no synergy between skills or squashy were mostly made by those who didn't even try to play the job with its full potential. The funny fact about skill synergy is that unlike other tanks Dark Knight has absolutely no useless skills.

[Brannigan]

Warrior doesn't have any useless skills. The closest they come is Bloodbath and that's at least as strong as Abyssal Drain.