How bad are the issues with DRK?

[aqskerorokero]

ppl just can't decide what type of tank pld war drk they want to play. A fun one? Easy one? Balanced one? reliable or viable?

hw war was "fun", a lot of "skill" to manage 3 fell cleave in zerk window: where I was be able to do at second try....

now I find a little difficult to bake 5 holy spirit in requiescat window, and I feel great when I can do that, it's not simple, if you click requeiscat too early a 5th one will miss the buff. And ppl still says pld's playstyle is "braindead"

I played a lot of drk during 3.2-3.5 but considered pld as my main since ARR, you don't change your main every goddamn patch, your main is the first job you gear up and do its relic weapon!!

So stick with most preferred job if it sucks! and bring every bit of it out during your play.

[Awful]

So stick with most preferred job if it sucks! and bring every bit of it out during your play.

Except why would people wanna do that? I know i'm moving farther and farther away from tanking as a Drk because it's just not fun anymore, I find it a chore to play it because of how boring and uninspired everything is. The class, when I get sync'd I lose TBN and Bloodspiller, outside of that it's just "meh" I'd rather play other classes and I do level and play other classes, not to mention all their right side accessories and utility and how the class plays now VS 3.0 is just not as engaging.

Drk and War need tweaks, Pld is leaps and bounds better than both due to how the class plays, utility, damage, # of CDs + Hallowed, They're just so much better and it's not balanced. I find no joy in joining the Pld hype train I have no issue with them but I wanted to raid as a Drk but now I find myself struggling to log on to even do my weekly stuff because it's just not interesting anymore, the tank balance is way out of whack, if you can't see this because you're having fun with Pld then i'd say you're pretty blind.

Look at 3.0 Plds, do you want that to happen again? Was that not horribly imbalanced? No one wanted a Pld and now they're good if SE just buffed War and Drk to Plds levels i'd be okay with tanking as well as making Tenacity good and fixing tank accessories that's a step in the right direction the core class changes I doubt they have enough time to even try to fix so close to Omega Savage.

[SpookyGhost]

it's not simple, if you click requeiscat too early a 5th one will miss the buff. And ppl still says pld's playstyle is "braindead"

How is pressing a button at a specific time difficult? That's like saying Berserk is hard because if you press it way early you won't fit in all your FCs.

Anyway, DRK isn't in a bad place in terms of being viable for everything - if you enjoy DRK then there's no reason for you not to play it. The only place where balance matters is early prog of the current hardest raids, so unless you plan on doing that then it's really irrelevant. That said, a lot of people who enjoyed DRK in 3.0 don't anymore in 4.0 simply due to the change in playstyle - if you like the current DRK then, like I said, no reason not to stick with it.