Tanking with style

[shao32]

That is what i’m trying to point out here.

All jobs have different ways to optimize and all jobs get punished. I wish people would stop acting as if DRK does not have anything to worry about and you can just face roll with it.

It does not matter which job gets punished most or which job requires more work to optimize. What I tried to show in my previous post is that DRK has it’s own challenges too. But people seem to always want to brag that they are playing the more punishing/harder job and making the less punishing seem bad while in reality it isn't. All jobs have some sort of mechanic to handle.

Finding a job boring or fun is subjective and not a fact.
The fact is all jobs have ways to optimize and things to look out for.

If anything, the real problem with some tanks is their identity and being very similar in terms of tanking.

Thank you for clearing my point even better.

My point is indeed every job have to optimice something but DRK kit it's so poor made due lack of sinergy with his own kit and having dead mechanics wasting space that the job have way less things to optimice and fail compared to the other 16 jobs of the game no matter how you look at it making it the most easy job of the game.

not trying to make you feel bad or something like that but DRK have no defense posible in terms of skill required to archive his maximun potential, it's saddly just an easy job to run with now and that's it.

[Spartan_Aoues]

Can someone do a compensation between hw drk and shb drk? Or just link a video explaining the key differences?

[shao32]

Can someone do a compensation between hw drk and shb drk? Or just link a video explaining the key differences?

here is a guide of the job then back in HWhttps://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...k-Knight-Guide

to make a resume DRK was a tactical job with sustained dps, back then DRK generate way more MP and his APM (actions per minute) was way higher with blood weapon uptime being more bigger and ofering a skill speed buff.

the job work witha priority system on both his MP usage and his GCD usage, on MP was:

1º dark arts + carve and spit
2º dark passenger
3º dark arts + soul eater

and for his GCD considering the MP one first was:

1º dark arts + soul eater
2º if not enough MP for dark arts + soul eater then delirium

darkside use to consume your MP by ticks when activated making his MP management constant and dinamic and on top of all that DRK have the parry mechanics, if DRK parry an attack have the chance to reset low blow and reprisal amking it alwyas being in the MT spot.

it use to have scourge wich was a dot that you always keep on apart of salted heart, in resume DRK use to have 2 combos, 2 priority systems on resources usage manipulating his GCD, a dot to manage and parry mechanics all in a constant management of his resources to never run out of MP or darkside will fade off or overcap it, very dinamic and very DRK theme for no mention his aoe rotation was so satisfactory.

correct me someone if i miss something.