This is all DRKs get?

[Silver_Blade]

I like some of the suggestions people have been throwing around. to make up for lack of utility. Well you could give it utility instead, like Sole Survivor also places a vulnerability up debuff on the target to boost raid dps. If that's too much... I guess an aoe shield mitigation to match the other two tanks?

That is probably the best and easiest fix for DRK i have heard. Make sole survivor 10% damage vulnerability for 20 seconds (since it is 120 sec cooldown or decrease cooldown to 60 and make it 10 second duration). Or make it act similar to stratagen and give crit vulnerability. Either of these would be easy and fix the problem WAR could still be the highest dps but DRK raises the groups DPS. It shocks me how many idea's the community has come up with to fix DRK but SE ignores them all.

[Kalocin]

I made a thread in general in regards to tank balance:
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Tank-Balance/

Honestly I think this is kind of an issue that needs to be in general discussion because at this point it doesn't just affect tanks.

[Arkanethered]

Anyone expecting anything different is obviously not familiar with FFXI's Drk and SE's updates... A similar pattern appears.

[DRKoftheAzure]

Anyone expecting anything different is obviously not familiar with FFXI's Drk and SE's updates... A similar pattern appears.

Are you talking about how PLD in Heavensward went from being the worst tank in the to the best tank in the game in Stormblood? If so then you're probably talking about how they are going to over buff DRK in 5.0 and maybe WAR...

But that may be wishful thinking... 5.0 will become the Final Fantasy 14 equivalent of World of Warcraft's Warlords of Draenor expansion... calling it right now...

[Arkanethered]

Are you talking about how PLD in Heavensward went from being the worst tank in the to the best tank in the game in Stormblood? If so then you're probably talking about how they are going to over buff DRK in 5.0 and maybe WAR...

But that may be wishful thinking... 5.0 will become the Final Fantasy 14 equivalent of World of Warcraft's Warlords of Draenor expansion... calling it right now...

No, I was referencing Final Fantasy 11 (FFXI) where buffs to Drk were constantly counterproductive or fell horribly short to correct simple issues. All in the name of balance that SE couldn't quite define for itself. SE still has no idea what to do with Drk in a mmorpg, 16 years later.

[Mithron]

No, I was referencing Final Fantasy 11 (FFXI) where buffs to Drk were constantly counterproductive or fell horribly short to correct simple issues. All in the name of balance that SE couldn't quite define for itself. SE still has no idea what to do with Drk in a mmorpg, 16 years later.

I mean to be fair, DRK in HW was perfect.

[Arkanethered]

I mean to be fair, DRK in HW was perfect.

I agree with you. They just needed to add the blood gauge / TBN to what we already had then balanced potencies with the other tanks.

[Ash_]

"We have improved DRK's usability... in being a meme" ...

In all seriousness though, multiple threads, a large consolidated feedback thread... I'm not sure what more we can do. It's all very depressing. Praise be they left NIN alone, which I main as DPS at least.

[Aniya_Estlihn]

Praise be they left NIN alone, which I main as DPS at least.

On the contrary, dis-aligning some cool-downs with Trick Attack is an indirect nerf to Ninja.

[Aomine1992]

Well it took a whole expansion for them to correct their mistake with BRD soooo I don't have any fiath that DRK will ever see anything valuable....the changes for 4.2 will go unnoticed lol SE I thought the launch of stormblood tanks was your biggest failure now I'm reconsidering and wonder if you even play your own game XD