Boycotting Dark Knight

[SyzzleSpark]

Boycotting a tank job for lack of DPS skills...

Seems legit.

#MetasAreCancerous

What is cancerous is ignorance. If you think DRK's poor DPS is the sole thing everyone is complaining about you haven't even been lurking much less participating constructively in the discussion.

Every one of DRK's defensive cooldowns has at least one significant balance problem with it, we have no party utility, and the job's design as a whole has felt bad ever since 4.0's launch.

...AND our DPS is bad.

[WhyAmIHere]

What is cancerous is ignorance. If you think DRK's poor DPS is the sole thing everyone is complaining about you haven't even been lurking much less participating constructively in the discussion.

Every one of DRK's defensive cooldowns has at least one significant balance problem with it, we have no party utility, and the job's design as a whole has felt bad ever since 4.0's launch.

...AND our DPS is bad.

Don't forget how, with regards to cross-roles, we got WHM'd.

[SyzzleSpark]

Don't forget how, with regards to cross-roles, we got WHM'd.

Goddamn, don't even get me started on the cross-role system as a whole. It is probably the stupidest thing in the game right now with regards to the job system.

[WhyAmIHere]

Goddamn, don't even get me started on the cross-role system as a whole. It is probably the stupidest thing in the game right now with regards to the job system.

It's one of my largest 4.0 complaints as well. There's a lot that's changed, and some of the decisions made by SE are utterly baffling.

[Chrono_Rising]

Boycotting a tank job for lack of DPS skills...

Seems legit.

#MetasAreCancerous

Actually, if you read the threads the reasons are that we offer no utility of value, no extra dps, and personally less mitigation compared to the other tanks. Basically there is no reason to run dark knight. But thanks for trying to trivialize the issues

[MagiusNecros]

Yeah it's ridiculous. And DRK kinda relied on Parry for CD resets and procs and whatnot and getting rid of Parry and stuff really fucked them up. I thought DRK always had no identity but right now they really don't have one at all.

The cross class system doesn't even resemble cross class at all.

I kinda just want to not play after seeing how much they've fucked up basic battle design.

[Dio_Tiferet]

Just drop the class and save yourself the trouble at this point you are just setting yourself up for disappointment. I dropped the class for SAM and now im working on NIN so i can drop SAM after it became obvious certain classes at this point are slowly getting gated from content and thats SE's fault not the players.

[Rhais]

Just drop the class and save yourself the trouble at this point you are just setting yourself up for disappointment. I dropped the class for SAM and now im working on NIN so i can drop SAM after it became obvious certain classes at this point are slowly getting gated from content and thats SE's fault not the players.

I did the same thing, but after maining SAM for awhile I realized I don't really want to be dps main, tanking is my preferred role, so I started gearing WAR, but the whole thing has really killed my motivation to even play the game. I haven't tried to get into another group for raids after having to leave my previous one for schedule reasons, I haven't touched Shinryu EX and don't really feel compelled to do so. I don't know, maybe I'll take a break and see how things look in a few patches.

[Savagelf]

I love my dark knight

[Valdegarde]

Coming from a melee main through most of ARR and Heavensward, I was delighted when I found that Dark Knight was a tank I could feel more at home on towards 3.3 or so onwards. Stormblood flipping this upside down has been bearable due to the hope that the strange reliance on a couple issues could be better developed and worked with, such as useless abilities, TBN's awkwardness, etc. Recent developments however have, to me, finally killed this hope, and I don't think I'll be able to get behind Dark Knight anymore for the time being. It's a pity, I was ready to make the jump to a tank main, but the fun element is just losing steam quickly.
All the rest of you still holding out, I salute you and I hope Dark Knight treats you well. All the rest who have thrown in the towel far earlier than this, let's just keep hoping things'll get better, but I understand that sometimes this has to be done at a distance.