What about creating an ACTUAL Dark Knight?

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All of this is really an issue of how awfully sterile the game is as a whole.

Everything is a set specific percent that doesn't scale. Defensive cooldowns should have actually scaled on a stat, or multiple stats, instead of just "Flat buff or percentage of some type". WAR used to have a few things kind of like this, and it was my favorite job.

Hell now even MP is a flat amount across the board. I've been criticizing SE for years on their completely sterile padded room of a game, well now those hens are finally coming home to roost for everyone else. They didn't know how to balance things in the extremely non-lenient system they built for themselves, so to balance they just homogenized even further.

Yeah, youre right, at one time Dex even helped up parry/block rate, str helped block str/parry%, things like this, back in 2.0. Heck its so bad now, you cant even meld main stats anymore. See? Man.....
I keep saying I just really dont like the direction they keep heading with it(middle of HW), well you put it bluntly at least, as to why. I'm still interested in talking about making a good identity for DRK, but this probably confirms its futility. Current DRK is probably the future of all the tanks before too long.