DRK Consolidated Feedback Thread

[SyzzleSpark]

How is DRK damage so low? I thought it was only a fairly modest DPS difference (although still significant)

Those aren't DPS numbers, they're usage numbers. DPS numbers have DRK about 100DPS behind PLD and 200-300DPS behind WAR, depending on percentile.

As I've said in other threads, the reason usage numbers are so important is that they show that there isn't something particularly special that makes up for DRK's low DPS. If DRK's DPS was the only problem, but it excelled in certain other areas, DRK would be much closer to the other two in usage. Its so far behind because WAR and PLD just do everything better, even if only slightly.

The usage statistics are also completely unaffected by percentile, and so they are completely unrelated to meta, speed runs, prog, etc. (i.e. the argument "don't listen to the meta" doesn't apply. these numbers factor in everyone, meta-conscious or not). Its just everybody who is raiding, no matter how good or bad they are, or why they're doing it. It illustrates something of a rejection of the job by the community.