What about creating an ACTUAL Dark Knight?

[Greyhawk]

You know, these "high-risk high-reward" tanky jobs that sacrifices their own HP to protect themselves or deliver strong blows?
That literally steals vitality from their foes to survive?
Makes shield out of their foes' blood?
That do ACTUAL DARK STUFF.

Does is speaks to anybody?
Or is that just me? '^'

Yeah, let me sacrifice my HP then just get slapped with a tankbuster move. /smart. It's a tank class, sacrificing HP to compete on the DPS scale is frankly absurd. I can see that if it were a DPS class... but it's not.