so mind you this is the leveling of 1-57 for my paladin and obviously 30-51 so far of my dark knight. i'm still a new player so take that for granted as well.

when i saw the dark knight unlocked i knew that was the class for me. i have always played tanks with life drains ... shadow knight in EQ1/2 and Death Knights in Wow. so i have put my Paladin on the back burner a bit and decided to level the dark knight.

the road has been a bumpy one to say the least. in leveling dungeons i feel extremely squishy ... where as i feel like i HAVE to use my cooldowns almost always on everything, where as with my paladins i usually pop cooldowns on bigger pulls.

i feel the biggest problem is that Dark Knights don't get their good abilities till damn near 50 which obviously aren't going to help me when i am doing leveling roulette dungeons. Even souleater is a level 38 ability, to me this should be core and gotten much much earlier. To me this would be like giving paladins access to a shield at level 38 but any dungeon before that they have to unequip the shield.