Issue with TBN

[Izsha]

Do you see the word /effectively/ in there? Effectively is rather important. No one has said DRK is /actually/ short one. But just to entertain, consider the following:

Heart of Stone = TBN (Granted, TBN is much, much stronger than Heart of Stone most of the time)
Camouflage = ????
Rampart = Rampart
Nebula = Shadow Wall
Heart of Light = Dark Missionary
Arm's Length = Arm's Length

People often greatly underestimate the raw value of Camouflage and its counterpart in Warrior's kit. As for DRK, it gets Dark Mind. Dark Mind is useless a large amount of the time, and it's honestly still not even that good when circumstances do permit its use. The state Dark Mind is currently in means that DRK is indeed effectively short one defensive CD most of the time. They could at least give it a small percentage based damage reduction like what's on Camouflage or something. Oh, and Living Dead is a suicide button.

Youre 1st statement is still completely wrong. Drk is not 'effectively' short anything. Dark mind exists. Dark is not"effectively short a defensive coooldown to compensate for TBN being as strong as it is". You cant just pretend the shortest cooldown cooldown in its class 'effectively' doesnt exist. It does, and its very powerful.

Your 2nd statement I didnt comment on because its not wrong as you were referencing the lack of physical mitigation and "75% fo the time" being dungeons, trash, autos, etc.

[Sancho_Nyanta]

The funny part is that obviously Drk isn't hurting too bad. I say this because despite all of the complaints and being the weakest tank in terms of Dps, it is the 2nd most represented tank in savage if you were to take FFLogs as any indication. Although admittedly the variance is only 1% between the 2nd and 3rd with most representation.

[Sancho_Nyanta]

I mean the disparity is pretty small all around comparing Drk's average DPS to the other 3

Compared to GBN it's 2% lower
Compared to Pld it's 1.76% lower
Compared to War it's 0.6% lower

So it isn't much of a difference.