Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
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RoH is a big loss, but after establishing enmity you have two oGCDs with modifiers that help you sustain it. DRK doesn't. Also bringing up DA Powerslash is kind of a loaded argument, as using that just makes the potency loss even bigger. In any discussion about balance you, for better or for worse, have to consider unoptimized and unorganized play just as much as top tier raiding. Enmity may be trivialized for some of us, but in dungeons and raid pugs it can still frequently boil down to you and you alone if you are paired with poor players.

Darkside isn't a consideration, because its always on, so its potencies are balanced around it. WAR has SE. PLD has a ludicrously potent DoT that provides a similar, constant pseudo buff. (The DoT ticks of GB are in the neighborhood of 20% of DRK's PPGCD, ergo, GB is essentially PLD's SE/DS). We're talking about things outside of things that are always running, things like Berserk, FoF, etc. DA is our per-GCD-basis form of this, but its not enough, and statistically our DPS is bottom tier and we don't bring anything to the raid that makes up for this, and certainly nothing that isn't 1-up'ed by the equivalents the other tanks possess.