Drk: worst designed class

[Renato]

The worlds firsts ultimate tank was a DRK - the answer he gave after he was asked why he played Drk:“cause I like Drk - it’s fun.“

If a job is good/bad/fun/clunky/what ever... is actually always subjective. Our main tank is also a satisfied Drk

I agree and disagree. I for one play DRK because it's my favorite job from the series as a whole. I stopped playing FFXIV and came back around the end of 2.x after I found out that DRK was going to be playable. I am one of the people who actually kind of prefers SB DRK moreso than the HW version because the MP is a bit easier to manage now in my opinion. It's still kind of an annoyance for me but it's tolerable. As much as I love the job, I can admit that compared to the other two tanks, it has issues mainly suffering from lack of identity. You know when you're taking a WAR with you, you're going to have a self-sustaining tank that can heal high amounts of damage. And if you bring a PLD, you're going to get a defensive tank with awesome damage mitgation cooldowns, shields and heals. DRK on the other hand has the lowest DPS of the three, can't self-sustain as well during solo fights and doesn't have as many damage mitigating cooldowns.

On top of that, there are a majority of skills that aren't worth using during fights without multiple enemies. There's no reason to use Abyssal Drain. Blood Price doesn't restore as much MP if you don't have a group of enemies attacking you. On top of that, DRK relies on TBN to generate blood that 3 different skills rely on. Because of the MP cost, Dark Passenger isn't really worth using and the Power Slash combo is forgotten during higher level content unless you're tank swapping.