Can’t decide between the two

[shao32]

It's a bit hard to recomend you a tank without knowing your gameplay preferences so i will made a small resume, but first you have to know tanking is in his most braindead state, agro management is non-existent, boss placement is automatic in most cases so you only face them out the party and everyting hit like a wet noodle if you have decent gear so mitigation is pretty much like a joke right now, almost no CDs management either.

With that being said you only have personal gameplay left, GNB and DRK are technically the faster tanks but at the say time both handle that feeling of speed or better say bussines way diferent, GNB is pretty much a rigid rotation with some decision making in order to keep the uptime on the boss, his speed is properly spread across the rotation having a constant feeling of bussines during all the rotation with some peaks on no mercy window, have nice versatile utility to other party members from mitigation to healing and is very rewarding to play despite the nerf on his sound effects.

DRK on the other hand right now focus all his bussines on a very small burst window of 10s where the job throw all his oGCD and MP on raid buffs and the next 50s is just pure GCD gameplay with almost nothing betwen them, considering the job only have 1 combo and his secondary mechanic is based on spam Bloodspiller x5 you can imagine how it is, the job is really easy, basically the most easy job of the game with WAR, there is nothing to take care about and no personal mechanics you should keep an eye outside of keep everything on coldown and don't overflow your MP, something is to easy to manage due the slow MP generation, DRK utility to others is basically TBN,is his only unique and distintive mechanic right now and fail it could lead to a loss of an 500p oGCD worth on MP, not hard to deal with it when you identify TB and such but the stronger is your gear the lower are you chances to use this skill and make the shiled break outside of TB so pay attention and you will be fine.

Maybe a bit biased resume im sorry and i din't even mention DRK is a WAR with a few more oGCD, dammit i did now.. oh well ^^, the best advice i can give you is find guides of them lvl both and stay the one you enjoy the most since is pretty fast lvls jobs right now, don't hestiate on try PLD and WAR too when you have time maybe they surprise you and fit your preferences better and have fun.

[Aresdreadheart]

My original character got deleted so I tanked from ARR and HW as all 3. Back then to I did DRG as a dps because everyone said you couldn’t do better then a monk.