Is DRK unique or a bad copy of WAR?

[Luin]

DRK got the short end of the stick, what with a random focus on gauges and the removal of reprisal (their most loved skill lost if the forums are to be believed) for a role skill so all tanks can help the main tank during a tankbuster. I'm not dissing The Blackest Night, but altering DRK from the atk down tank to the barrier tank was a change nobody asked for.

As much as DRKs hate to share the love, giving Reprisal to all tanks allows better fight design. That's a good change.
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The problem with that is it wasnt replaced. Dark Knight lost EVERYTHING and got nothing in return, except a mediocre Fell Cleave. They changed from fast-paced proc and debuff management to a PLD clone with 1 ridiculously powerful shield.

Not really sure what you mean by this, can ya give some examples? Only thing I can think of is that they don't have an oGCD for generating enmity, like Circle of Scorn or Onslaught

He means balance.

In that sense they're all very close. Same problem all jobs have, parts of the community think the one that isn't used for speedkilling is unusable, even though most of the community can't even attempt a proper speedkill.

Enmity isnt an issue (and besides, Onslaught and CoS arent really enmity tools), since WAR does the pull anyway, DAPS got buffed ridiculously, and Shadewalker is still in the game.

The problem most DRKs have with the job is that it's just Paladin, but less. DRKs want high APM, but right now DRK APM isn't Actions-Per-Minute so much as it is Dark Arts-Per-Minute. Whereas in Heavensward you were smashing Low Blow/Reprisal and maintaining Scourge and Delirium, now you're just doing 1-2-3 over and over, using Dark Arts on BS and SE. And you do that for 6-10 minutes, and your cooldown "rotation" consists primarily of TBN, and if the fight allows, Dark Mind. Since you don't even have burst for TA or other raid buffs, your 'optimization' is mostly ~90 blood and ~6000mp every 60 seconds. Not hard to do.

Basically, DRK's problem is it isn't fun.