Its exactly like every DRK thought.

[Ryaduera]

Soul Eater actually is decent healing, the problem is that the other tanks just have better healing. It just has some issues the other tanks don't.

Brutal Shell is better because you get a shield so if your HP is capped you still get effect out. Since the heal is half of Soul Eater but the shield matches the heal, the effective HP gained is the same. On top of that, GNB has more GCD's to use so they can't use Brutal Shell as often as Soul Eater gets used since they have Gnashing combo, Burst Strike, Sonic Break, and now Double Down to take up GCD's. The healing is a little low because the vast majority of GNB I see don't even use Aurora at all, which they should be. It's a 0 cost ability, no resource cost, no DPS loss, just free HoT.

PLD gets their heals front loaded with their burst so it will naturally be stronger. With no main GCD combo having regular sustain in it, their heals coming from both Shelltron and their magic combo, it's more of a "burst heal" I suppose, which can inflate the number a bit. But also, Clemency might be bloating that number a bit as well.

Warrior has healing in their main combo, but also in their off globals several times over.

DRK on the other hand only has one other GCD to use other than their main combo that has healing in it. This actually inflates that number significantly since the healing also might not even take effect. You don't overheal. It's actually worse than it looks for this reason. Just because it happens often doesn't mean it makes a difference or is in any way meaningful. Aurora suffers from this as well, but at least it's off global with 2 charges so it can be timed for when someone is taking sustained damage. Souleater just happens and we're supposed to just accept that it's a good form of healing even though there's no intention behind it. Tying a small heal to a GCD removes the idea that tank mitigations are used with intent, which every off global is. Tying it to GCD spam doesn't make it good mitigation, it makes it something that just happens without calculation, and that lies the real issue with Soul Eater being the only heal DRK has.

Let's just make a petition to bring back a modernized version of Sole Survivor. DRK used to have a self heal, it got removed, now every tank has heals but DRK, and it's kind of insulting. Even DPS classes get more meaningful heals. Reaper got the TBN upgrade DRK deserved.