Quote Originally Posted by Ryaduera View Post
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I'm not going to debate math numbers, But my argument is Surviving outright and "not what's after" is most important Especially under high damage pressure, like I said TBN will be better in some situations but mitigation will be better in others, healing as a after fact is only important if you don't really have a healer (which things like a excog something drk has, is good at automatically healing you after heavy damage, rather then a sustained effect like PLD's which doesn't have burst healing). Thing with dark mind it's 20% and on a shorter cooldown and Oblation exists.

I already do experts on PLD, Drk and War (GNB whenever i level that), Yes Dark Knight isn't the best dungeon tank, but I feel like everyone under estimates the job because it isn't warrior where you click one button and heal automatically to full hp, Personally I like being challenged in AOE pulls and working together with a healer. I rather have fun on the job and actually think about my mitigations rather then just heal up to full with a 25 second CD that lasts 8s, I think its more fun when I'm actually cycling my mitigations.

I'm not going to debate if DRK's the "worst tank" I've not seen anyone struggle because of playing DRK I've seen people complain that it lacks sustain but also people brag about how good it is defensively, some pain points can be fixed such as giving Oblation life steal (which would be really nice to make that skill more then just a 10% mit), Dark Mind and Missionary not being magic exclusive, I'm also not even against TBN not being a damage loss here (I'm pretty neutral on that), I do think it would be nice if the job did get a bit more, but threads like this and the original post seems to think DRK is some paper defensive tank because it has less self healing and isn't as good in dungeons.

My issue is when people act like Dark knight is some sort of difficult struggle in dungeons, when to me I've not had any issues with tanking on it, even playing on white mage I've had no issues with dark knights and when I level other healers I doubt I'll have a particular issue with dark knights and if I do it will generally be because they're not pressing cooldowns.