Quote Originally Posted by Accelerating View Post
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i dont think you get when im saying... im saying that if you're taking lots of damage all of a sudden and you're out of cooldowns your only option is TBN which isn't always there due to it costing MP. meanwhile a PLD or WAR can willingly lower their dps in favour of the ability to actually survive instead of dying and thus loosing even more dps.
Tanking isn't ALL about doing damage you know? the examples i listed are examples of being able to sacrifce your dps to actually live through mechanics, DRK has no such mechanic like that that doesn't cost MP and even then TBN is still a 15 second cooldown and only a 20% shield which is at most 2 auto attacks from a boss, IB on the other hand is on the GCD, only has about 150 less pot than Fell cleave AND is a rampart for close to 10 seconds (not to mention the self heal) which is far more effective for mitigating fluff damage than TBN is. meanwhile PLD has sheltron every 15 seconds AT NO COST to their MP and clemency if they need it. my point is that DRK has no such equivalent tool