Community supports imbalance/bad game design?

[Carighan]

How is tanks having unique niches "bad design"?

If I wanted all classes to behave identical, I would not need multiple classes. The whole point having 4 tanks is that in some situations, a Warrior will be better. In others, a Dark Knight. So long as each class has "their moment", this is fine, this is what makes playing each of them feel unique, they have strengths and weaknesses.

You're also still having ChatGPT supply your job information like that other guy did, meaning your information is wrong about the skills you post about. At least get that right, or it makes you sound really weird as you aggressively whine about things that just flat out are not true. I mean everyone can be enraged based on a lie, right?

Also...

which is what 90% of people do most of the time when in groups

Source? I mean you must have one, based on how confidently you state this. Link it!

[velkettin]

you're acting like DRK is only workable for the absolute top tier of players but i've never set foot in a synced savage and i tank with it almost exclusively, without issues. it really isn't that dire. hit your TBN after you stop moving at the end of the w2w (why are you stopping at 5 in your hypothetical?), cycle your mits efficiently between TBNs (you can overlap 'big' and 'small' ones, e.g. reprisal with shadow wall, arm's length with rampart, whatever), maybe time your abyssal drain if you feel it's necessary (it does, in fact, get better with more targets!). remember living dead exists and use it (and feel great whenever you time it perfectly!). that is literally all there is to it.

it's a little more effort, i guess, but contrary to your assumption not everyone wants to play a job that "doesn't need to think about anything." DRK isn't bad, WAR just makes you forget how to actually *play tank* without bloodwhetting.

[Terhix]

You can live every dungeon boss tank buster with nothing but TBN and Dark Mind or Oblation. If your group has remotely average dps and you use all the big mits on wall to wall pulls, the trash will be dead before you'll need a heal.

I do think it would be healthier for the game if WAR healing in dungeons was toned down a lot, but this:

(...) clear superiority of WAR in essentially all content (...)

Is just LMAO

[Rithy255]

you're acting like DRK is only workable for the absolute top tier of players but i've never set foot in a synced savage and i tank with it almost exclusively, without issues. it really isn't that dire. hit your TBN after you stop moving at the end of the w2w (why are you stopping at 5 in your hypothetical?), cycle your mits efficiently between TBNs (you can overlap 'big' and 'small' ones, e.g. reprisal with shadow wall, arm's length with rampart, whatever), maybe time your abyssal drain if you feel it's necessary (it does, in fact, get better with more targets!). remember living dead exists and use it (and feel great whenever you time it perfectly!). that is literally all there is to it.

it's a little more effort, i guess, but contrary to your assumption not everyone wants to play a job that "doesn't need to think about anything." DRK isn't bad, WAR just makes you forget how to actually *play tank* without bloodwhetting.

I have to agree with the last statement in particular Warrior is only really seen "op in dungeons" because you only really need to use bloodwhetting while other tanks want to actually cycle their mitigations, once you learn how to cycle your mitigations on any other tank you know how to do it on all tanks.

It's funny because Dark Knight post buffs doesn't even fall behind paladin and gunbreaker in terms of AOE sustain as Abyssal Drain now is a full heal, you'll always have every 60s which is bassically once a pull (you also get a excog on your 40%) while PLD/GNB more have slow over time sustain, But all three tanks do not even need healing if you know what to do.

I honestly think OP is also looking it as "well we need to buff Dark knight! healing" when clearly bloodwhetting needs to be nerfed for AOE situations because frankly It makes warrior super boring (at least for me) in AOE situations because it requires zero management.