DRK Consolidated Feedback Thread

[Accelerating]

If we're talking about farming/speed clears, then what DRK actually needs is higher DPS and for the cooldown that constitutes the vast majority of its personal mitigation (TBN) to not be a DPS loss. In fact I'm hard pressed to think of a reason to take a DRK into an optimized parse run.

I agree that DRK is probably the worst tank for speed clear. And even though TBN is a really small personal dps loss in most cases, it is easily a raidwide dps gain if the healers can spend more time casting offensive spell as a result.

When talking about prog [...] DRK just doesn't bring anything significant to the table

But TBN is huge in progression: It's an IB every 15 seconds with almost no cost. And it's a shiled (unlike IB) so it can actually safe in those dire situations where the healers are busy and can't heal you in time for the next auto attack.

We both agree that DRK somewhat lacks both offense and defense. But I don't understand why DRK needs a skill that works like IB (a defensive CD with a gigantic opportunity cost) instead of buffing the existing cooldowns (and raising his offensive capabilities in some way).

IB really IS one of the most powerful abilities in the game

But it's really not: It's a skill that is barely used outside of very specific situations and has no real usage in any optmized play. The skill wouldn't be too bad if it wasn't for the Defiance requirement.