Thread: DRK's 5.0 rework just feels...incomplete.

Originally Posted by Anger

IMO DRK was always a novelty or "fun" tank. I think WAR and PLD were the main ones since 2.1

DRK was the superior MT in Heavensward throughout Gordias. It remained quite strong throughout the expansion.

It also was not introduced until Heavensward, and thus couldn't exactly compete with WAR and PLD through 2.x...

Originally Posted by Freyyy

The only reason for that was because PLD was shit back then (worst DPS, worst opening aggro, worst magic damage mitigation and just average physical mitigation, worst utility) and DRK had job mechanics that forced him into taking damage to increase its DPS. DRK already had problems in HW, but the job was meta and a lot of fun so we thought that it didn't need to be fixed.

So... absolutely nothing to do with the fact it had the most significant and on-demand magic resistance in magic-heavy fights like A4S? Nothing to do with it not only needing to be MT but also having the highest MT damage of the three tanks? Hmm. I'll admit, those weren't by leaps and bounds, but I've a hard time believing they were non-factors, else double-Warrior would have been more than worth its LB generation penalty.