How bad are the issues with DRK?

[_Pigzig]

In terms of whether or not the job is strong or not, it's not awful

In terms of how well it plays, it's a disaster and a shadow of what it was in 3.X

The class is a cluster**** of redundant abilities
e.g. 1: Darkside which you now never need to turn off
e.g. 2: It has 5 AOE abilities.

It has a basic rotation that rarely goes beyond pushing 1,2,3(or whatever its keybound to) but more button presses than I've seen from any job in the game so far, due to dark arts spam and an extremely high number of OCDs that you're going to want to weave in between the 1,2,3.

MP fluctuates wildly due to the job having high regen as well as consumption. If you want to play efficiently you will have to keep your eyes on your MP all the time.
(edit: I haven't done any tanking at 70 yet so I'm not sure if this settles down once you get a higher MP pool)

It also suffers from the VIT accessory and tank stance problems plaguing tanks in general.

[Eliroth-Kaminari]

The class is a cluster**** of redundant abilities
e.g. 1: Darkside which you now never need to turn off
e.g. 2: It has 5 AOE abilities.

I found allredy during off darkside will help you in phase switches where u can ask bards refresh to start whit full mp bar. (darkside effect now is no natural mpgain in combat so u whant do that)
5 Aoe that are more harder to use then warior overpower + steel cyclon because in trash bulls u sit in grit and whit bloodprice nef u have no resources to spamm that 5 aoes u have where anyway you select 2 to use then fall back to syphon rotation to gain manna.

Dark Mind has good uses in both the Ex fights, as well as V1, 3, and 4.

dont see much magic in susano.


@OP

on casual dungeon crawling drk still work u might need get usto whit manna managment that is still there even if bleed is removed from darkside.'
as raider on drk main tank
my biggest worries are:
* lack of dps what drk us to be compare counterparts.
* lac of mitigation compare to counterparts.(at 62 susano normal drk cant tank that alone because u run out of tank cd and no tbn there to save your as*)
* flavor of day change atm ppl are overly exited about TBN(sort of 6 fell cleave moment) in raid combs calling it utility where it is just equal to shildron or ib. what still leaves dark behind whit mitigation and utility skills.

drk dont fit well to be offtank due lack raid utility and dps*
drk dont fit well to be maintank due lac of raid midigation and tank cooldowns (dont mention LD and shadow wall disadvanges over counterparts)