This is why jobs get homogenized. Because of posts like this. "This job has something but the others don't". So SE make the other jobs do it and then get attacked for homogenizing them.

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I don't get why tank DPS needs to be within a close range of each other, but WAR is allowed to do significantly more HPS than other tanks (even if you don't count the outlier) while DRK does significantly less.
Because what DRK lacks in self-heals it makes up for in the extreme strength of its shield, TBN. That's a unique thing about DRK and it is a post like this that could homogenize them more.

TBN does in fact allow survival for an extremely long time despite a low amount of health. Many times, I have jumped into old content unsynced and where it has been easy to solo on other tanks, DRK has got very low but still survived for a very long time (about as long as I was willing to bother), because of how frequently TBN came off cooldown and was up almost all the time to absorb autos, TBs, stacks and other things.

I mained the job in Shadowbringers and absorbed entire tank busters regularly, taking 0 damage at all from them, actually even in raid content I could mitigate them so well. I was able to mitigate mob packs so well in dungeons that I did not even need a healer and had healers tell me I wasn't taking any damage and that they were useless. Because TBN + good CD useless was that good in large pulls.

The damage output has seemed different in some EW content, and I don't main DRK this time, so I can't say for sure if it's struggling now, although I did experience the issues with it when I was leveling in EW. I can however say I healed a tank in Ktisis who mitigated so well on DRK that they weren't needing me much.