Design of DRK and PLD

[Marxam]

From a new players perspective. It just dont make sense at all. Then i hear from some players saying that DRK will never change cause it was originally inspired by an Anime called Berserk. After watching that anime. It makes even less sense of having DRK being a shield tank. Whats the use of Paladin's shield? I have never seen any "Paladin with shield" in other games that uses shield but almost never uses a shield.

If they are using Berserk as inspiration then 3.0-4.0 DRK was the 1997 anime and 5.0+ is the 2016 anime. The former was slow deliberate, punishing but rewarding and jank (though this was a time when most classes were jank as well). The latter is flash but no substance and bombastic for the sake of it. People have their favorites but ultimately DRK didn't do too well in the expansion transitions because it changed from being a magic defense specialist, but when PLD changed to block magic DRK lost that. It then became a haste, resource management tank but then they removed TP. Now its just a tank variant of MCH. The parallels are frightening tbh.

Both MCH and DRK have:
-one combo rotation
-multiple ogcds that only do dmg
-an npc they can summon as a flashy dot
-animations where they are flipping and dipping like wushu masters