DRK - Excessive "Conditional" Effects

[SyzzleSpark]

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You're misrepresenting my argument to advance your own.

What you are hearing me say is that what I want DRK to be pretty much the best tank, because we make sacrifices in a few key areas.

What I would like is for the areas in which we do make these sacrifices to be areas where we attain a greater reward.

You are saying that this would, in the end, result in DRK just being the hands down top tier tank, which is an exaggeration.

If it is your opinion that DRK is fine, or that all it needs is another 10 potency on Souleater, then say as much.

I, on the other hand, do care about balance, and while yes, I want my main job to be better than it currently is, significantly better even, I do not want it to usurp the niches of the other tanks (PLD's raid mitigation and utilities, WAR's burst damage or high uptime CDs, etc.) DRK is far enough behind to make it significantly better in at least one area while still leaving the other tanks plenty of room to shine. This argument that because I want DRK buffed/fixed/re-designed, I want DRK to be the omni-tank, because its my main, is borderline ad hominem and at the very least just misses the point entirely, to say nothing of the fact that, again, (i reiterate) I suggested little-to-nothing in the way of buffs here, merely design flaws. You've yet to even properly analyze the actual implications of changing any of the problems I listed, and thus you've yet to make a counter-argument. What your posts have amounted to so far is basically generalized anti-buffing rhetoric and question-begging.

The imbalance of things like LD, TBN, Delirium, etc. are representative of only a very small part of our toolkit, and if all the things in the OP were completely addressed, all it would really do is boost our DPS and make our sustain/invuln slightly better. It wouldn't even come close to making us the "best tank".