Quote Originally Posted by ReiMakoto View Post
They wanted DRK to be a tank, so HP sacrificing moves were out the window. They do have a few lifestealy things like abyssal drain, soul eater, and they used to have sole survivor too.
There's nothing wrong with HP-sacrificing moves on a Tank, as long as they in turn produce eHP in some different way.

In fact, Tanks are the only role in which those moves make sense, as you otherwise have a DPS class that's dependent on leeching healer HoTs, essentially, which would require that healers be homogenized or the DPS viable only in precise compositions around whose side-healing they're balanced.

On a tank it would amount to simply spending HP when you have an excess relative to upcoming healer CDs or HoTs, banking the eHP for later tankbusters, essentially smoothing damage intake and greatly aiding healing ease and efficiency... a near perfect fit for a Tank.