Quote Originally Posted by Renato View Post
The DH thing is kind of overrated to me personally. I made a post about this some months back asking if DH was really needed to play proficiently and most people preferred CRIT for DRK. This actually inspired me to try and do my own build and with DET>TEN>CRIT>SkS and I really enjoy it. I haven't done the math but I've seen some posts and have been told that a high DET stat isn't that much different than having a a lot of CRIT.

Decent survivorability, easy for the healer to heal and constant heavy hits due to the DET and TEN compared to having to wait for a CRIT attack to trigger...Is what it seems like at least. I'm not sure how correct this is but I like it and it's something different from the standard "go with this build or you suck" criteria.

My thing has always been that keep in mind, big numbers are always good but DRK is still a Tank not a DPS.
Don't listen to this guy please.

Determination doesn't reduce damage taken at all. And going full on tenacity doesn't add enough mitigation for it to matter (You won't save healer GCDs and you would still use CDs where you have to). So the whole "Decent survivorability" (that's not a word btw) is placebo.

Also please stop the meme of "still a Tank not a DPS", you're not a punching bag, you are a tank. you're a front-line fighter that is trading blows with the big nasty boss with an equally big and nasty weapon that's bigger than anything the DPS have... Even if it's a compensation thing (for the lower DPS you dirty minded-... you!!). Real tanks carry a cannon that's bigger than anything in the grounded army, no?

As a tank, you want to deal more damage for: 1- keeping aggro. 2- Bigger damage on self healing abilities = bigger self heals. 3- Dead boss = 0 damage taken. The deader the boss, the better your mitigation is.

All tanks should go for a desired GCD speed based on playstyle or preferred build. Then max crit. Then where they can't add crit, you add DH unless you're a WAR, where you skip to Determination. Tenacity isn't bad enough to completely avoid, but it's not good enough to prioritize either. This means a piece of crit+tenacity is probably better than a piece with sks+det.